Institute Professor to evaluate key Swedish development cooperation

Alfred Deakin Institute Professor Mark McGillivray has been appointed by the Swedish Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) to evaluate the Swedish government's long-term development cooperation in Tanzania - the country who has had the longest cooperation with Sweden (more than 50 years). 

The Swedish Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) is the government committee mandated to evaluate and analyse Sweden's international development assistance. It is tasked, amongst other objectives, with commissioning, compiling, conducting and communicating analyses, studies and evaluations of Swedish development assistance, in particular its execution, results and efficiency.

"Swedish development co-operation efforts are among the most sustained worldwide, and Sweden is seen as one of the most progressive donors of aid", said Professor McGillivray, "so the work of the EBA has importance not only in Sweden, but also on an international level".

Successful in the highly-competitive process, Professor McGillivray's was one of the two proposals selected from more than 40 expressions of interest from leading international aid researchers, consultants and advisers.

"As well as assessing how Swedish aid has contributed to poverty reduction in Tanzania and ascertaining important lessons to be learnt from that experience, my evaluation also aims to develop a framework for evaluating the performance of bilateral assistance to individual countries, and apply it, in my case, to Tanzania", Professor McGillivray explained.

For more information on EBA visit: www.eba.se

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