http://www.search4dev.nlOnline library for Dutch development cooperationenwww.kit.nldpcmedewerkers-uba@uva.nldpcmedewerkers-uba@uva.nlFri, 24 May 2013 23:10:52 CEST/d/dprn/graphics/bbhead.gifhttp://www.search4dev.nlhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/442140http://www.search4dev.nl/record/442140This is the annual report of Partos for 2011. Partos is the national platform for Dutch civil society organisations in the international development cooperation sector. This field includes poverty alleviation, humanitarian intervention, human rights and sustainable development. Partos supports its member organisations in reaching their goals by working to increase professionalism throughout the sector and helping it to position itself clearly in the public eye.Vereniging Partoshttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/411091http://www.search4dev.nl/record/411091Between the end of 2008 and early 2011 the four Co-financing Agencies (CFA’s) Cordaid, Hivos, ICCO and Oxfam Novib have participated – under the banner of Partos – in the IOB initiated ‘Evaluation of Dutch support to capacity development; evidenced-based case studies’. The Partos evaluation was one of seven single studies implemented under this IOB initiative and resulted in a report called ‘Capacities for development : joint evaluation Partos : synthesis report’. This is a Partos policy response to that report.CordaidHivosICCOOxfam Novibhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/406565http://www.search4dev.nl/record/406565Between the end of 2008 and early 2011 the four Co-financing Agencies (CFA’s) Cordaid, Hivos, ICCO and Oxfam Novib have participated – under the banner of Partos – in the IOB initiated ‘Evaluation of Dutch support to capacity development; evidenced-based case studies’. The Partos evaluation was one of the seven single studies implemented under this IOB initiative. Those studies were carried out in, among others, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Malawi and Somalia. The purpose of these evaluations was to respond to the need for knowledge and new insights. The Partos evaluation resulted in this final report. The overall coordination and implementation of this Partos study was carried out by Context, international cooperation.F. van der VeldenU. Fernandohttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/406373http://www.search4dev.nl/record/406373This is the annual report of Partos for 2010. Partos is the national platform for Dutch civil society organisations in the international development cooperation sector. This field includes poverty alleviation, humanitarian intervention, human rights and sustainable development. Partos supports its member organisations in reaching their goals by working to increase professionalism throughout the sector and helping it to position itself clearly in the public eye.Partoshttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/378221http://www.search4dev.nl/record/378221This publication presents the policy response of three Dutch co-financing agencies (CFAs) (ICCO, Hivos, Cordaid) to the external evaluation of their programmes to support indigenous peoples in the period 2003-2008. The aim of this evaluation was to find out to what extent these three Dutch CFAs (i.e. their policies, strategies, procedures and programmes) and their partner organisations contributed to a reduction of structural injustice towards indigenous peoples.ICCOHivosCordaidhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/378220http://www.search4dev.nl/record/378220This policy letter discusses the external programme evaluation of Cordaid’s, Hivos’, ICCO’s, and Oxfam Novib’s contribution to the microfinance sector for the period 2003 – 2007. The aim of the evaluation was to gain insight in the extent to which these co‐financing agencies (CFAs) have contributed to building sustainable and socially performing microfinance institutions during the period 2003 – 2007, for the sake of accountability and to draw lessons for the future.ICCOHivosOxfamNovibCordaidhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/378219http://www.search4dev.nl/record/378219This policy letter presents a reaction from ICCO, Oxfam Novib, Plan Nederland and Cordaid on the synthesis report "Conflict transformation: a science and an art".ICCOOxfamNovibPlan NederlandCordaidhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/378218http://www.search4dev.nl/record/378218This synthesis report on change in the situation of indigenous peoples (IPs) and the contribution of the three co-financing agencies (CFAs) - Cordaid, Hivos and ICCO - to this change was written as part of the Joint Programme Evaluation on Indigenous Peoples commissioned by Partos. The synthesis report is based on the inception report and five case-study reports on Bolivia, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Kenya and India.Partoshttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/378216http://www.search4dev.nl/record/378216This is a synthesis report of the jopint evaluation of four co-financing agencies’ (CFA) (Cordaid, Hivos, ICCO and Oxfam Novib) contribution to the microfinance sector. The objective of the evaluation was to gain an insight on the extent to which the CFAs have contributed to building sustainable and socially performing microfinance institutes during the period 2003 - 2007, for the sake of accountability and to draw lessons for the future.Partoshttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/378215http://www.search4dev.nl/record/378215This report presents the synthesis of the thematic evaluation ‘Co-Financing Agencies (CFAs) on the Road to Conflict Transformation’ in which four major Dutch CFAs (Cordaid, ICCO, Oxfam Novib and Plan) have participated. The co-ordination of the evaluation was taken up by Partos, the association of Dutch civil society organisations in international development cooperation, and is part of Partos’ mandate to promote the quality of the work of its members. The overall aim of the evaluation was to gain more insight into the results of the activities in the area of conflict management, prevention and resolution to date, and thus to learn lessons about the CFAs’ existing and potential contribution to conflict transformation. The results of this evaluation are meant to serve accountability, learning and policy development purposes.Partos