In 2023, Norad’s Department of Evaluation commissioned an evaluation of cross-cutting issues in Norwegian development cooperation. The purpose of the evaluation was to provide evidence about how cross-cutting issues were implemented in the Norwegian aid administration and whether their consideration ultimately contributes to better results.
The evaluation adopted a variety of methods to generate evidence relating to four evaluation questions. One requirement of the evaluation, established by its Terms of Reference, was the development and implementation of a machine learning approach to answer the evaluation’s second question: “How is the Norwegian development administration implementing the four cross-cutting issues (Human rights, Women’s rights and gender equality, Climate change and environment, Anti-corruption) into the management of its programmes and projects? And to what extent is this implementation successful”?
