RRD conducted the Final Evaluation of the Dutch NFP program in Bangladesh

Year: 2011 | Country: Bangladesh | Client: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Worked with ECORYS, Holland.

Subject of the evaluation was the Dutch Fellowship Program in Bangladesh. A country study of Bangladesh within the context of this Evaluation has been conducted. Interviews were held with important stakeholders, a literature study and the findings were reported on.

The overall objective of the Dutch Fellowship Program was to help alleviate qualitative and quantitative shortages of skilled manpower within a wide range of governmental, private and non-governmental organizations.

The program offered fellowships to mid-career professionals, by doing so it aimed to improve the capacity of the employing organizations. Since the program was designed to promote capacity building within organizations, the need for education and training was to be linked to the institutional development of the organization the applicant was working for.

Therefore, applicants were to be nominated by their employer. The program was broad in scope and not confined to bilateral cooperation target areas. RRD has visited Bangladesh cooperating in this with a local consultant.

The aim was to give a picture of:

The country context on general as well as in relation to higher education and other fellowship programmes;
Data on the implementation of the NFP and the selection criteria used;
An evaluation of the program using the criteria of Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency as well as the lesson learned based on the information given by a number of the employers and alumni interviewed.

Clemens Romijn (far right) with alumni of the Institute Of Water Modelling in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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