This evaluation examined the support the European Commission’s DG for Development and International Cooperation (DEVCO) provided to Research and Innovation (R&I) in partner countries during the last EU budget period (2007-2013).

Support to R&I was a major theme of DEVCO work, yet one that is hidden, not recognised and poorly understood. A new departure is to be found in the Joint Africa-EU Strategy signed in December 2007, which identifies support to R&I as a cross-cutting tool and one of eight pillars of co-operation.

The evaluation concluded that while DG DEVCO had achieved a lot with its support to R&I at the sector level, the lack of an overall strategy or explicit overall commitment to support R&I undermined the overall impact of its work in this important area for development.

Final report
Executive summary
Executive summary French
Volume 2 (Evaluation matrices)
Volume 3 (Annexes 1-8)
Volume 4 (Annex 9)

Authors

James Mackie Head of Learning and Quality Support

Paul Engel (Alumnus) Senior Fellow

Paulina Bizzotto Molina Policy Officer

Matthias Deneckere Policy Officer Security and Resilience Programme

Eunike Spierings Senior Policy Officer

Fabien Tondel Policy Officer