Evaluation of the HORIZONT3000 Technical Assistance Personnel Programme

In 2006 the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) commissioned the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) to carry out an evaluation of the technical assistance (TA) personnel programme run by HORIZONT3000, an Austrian NGO consisting of six member organisations of the Catholic Church in Austria. HORIZONT3000 receives a large proportion of its annual budget of some Euro 16 million from the Austrian Government (Euro 8.9 million in 2005), of which some Euro 2.6 million (this is the OEZA cofinaning part, altogether the personell programme amounts up to 3,8 Mio) is spent on the personnel programme. The programme funds some 100 technical personnel per year, who are posted in 9 partners countries.