EOP specialises in the following fields of work:
Within the scope of an evaluation, sustainable results and solutions can only be developed in cooperation with the key stakeholders. A sense of appreciation for participants and target groups as well as their various insights, perspectives and experiences are the guiding principle for the work of EOP.
This means that structured reflective discussions, feedback loops and workshops – with individual and mixed stakeholder groups – are important building blocks for promoting systematic and mutual learning on the part of the participants. This well-founded approach secures the developed solution so that it can be used in a sustainable manner for an organisation’s continued development.
I have worked as an independent evaluator, consultant and trainer since 2002 in the fields of education for sustainable development, Global Education, fair trade and development cooperation. I am a member of the German DeGEval – Evaluation Society, of the network “Evaluation entwicklungsbezogener Inlandsarbeit” (Evaluation of development education in Germany) and a member of the editorial board at the Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspädagogik (Journal of International Education Research and Development Education). I concluded my studies with an MA in Sinology, Economic Geography and German as a foreign language in Munich and Nanjing/People’s Republic of China. I subsequently obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies at the University of Glasgow.
We assemble the ideal team for each assignment. EOP consists of a network of appraisers, experts and scientists from Germany, Austria and potentially also the respective country in which a development project is carried out. Project-related collaborations create access to comprehensive evaluation and consulting knowledge, diversified specialist knowledge and scientific expertise.
EOP has cooperated (amongst others) with the following partners and evaluators:
The evaluation is based on the declared evaluation goals as well as the information needs of the intended users.
The evaluation is planned and executed in a realistic, carefully thought-out, diplomatic and budget-conscious manner.
All of the people and groups concerned are treated in a respectful, fair manner during the evaluation.
The evaluation generates and imparts valid information and results on the subject of the evaluation and the questions posed.
GE2050 European Congress on Global Education to 2050,
3-4 November 2022, Dublin, Ireland
The Congress - hosted by Ireland, co-chaired by Luxembourg and convened by GENE - brought together ministries, agencies, youth organisations, civil society, local and regional governments, academia, and international organisations for the adoption of the new Declaration on Global Education to 2050.
Photo credit: © GENE 2022
What are the impacts of development education and Global Education? What stimulates these impacts? And how do we identify these impacts? These questions were examined in a research project commissioned by the BMZ (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) in collaboration with VENRO (the umbrella organisation of development and humanitarian aid NGOs in Germany). Thanks to the generous support of GENE, the Global Education Network Europe, on the basis of the support it receives from the European Commission and from various Ministries and Agencies in Europe, an English translation of the study, “Quality and Impact in Global Education - Empirical and Conceptual Perspectives for Planning and Evaluation” was published in April 2021 by the Waxmann Publishing House. You can access the book here (free download). If you wish to find out about lectures and workshops on the study results and their practical application, feel free to get in touch via email.
Get in contact at the earliest possible stage if you are planning an evaluation – no matter the scale. Experience has shown that the precise formulation of evaluation questions is challenging, as is the planning of evaluations. I will be happy to support you during this crucial preparatory phase – to which special attention should be paid in remote/ digital evaluations.
Some inspiration for your self-evaluation: You will find plenty of additional tips, materials, literature and links at www.selbstevaluation.de.
As a client and as someone interested in evaluation, you can find information and self-learning facilities on the topic of evaluation here.
Photo credit: © GENE 2022
The EOP clients come from the following areas:
EOP has stood for competence in evaluation, consultation and training since 2002. Many thanks to all our clients for the trust placed in EOP and the fruitful cooperation.
You too can benefit from 18 years of experience gained in over 40 evaluations and studies. See for yourself and get an idea of the range of services offered by EOP. The project examples provide further information on a selection of completed assignments.
Bread for the World: “Evaluation of Capacity Building Measures for Partner-Organisations of Bread for the World”
Terms of Reference
Team: Dr. M. Gutknecht-Gmeiner/IMPULSE ; S. Höck/EOP; Madeleine Rodríguez Startz / Konzept -Beratung und Training; Marco Hanitzsch/ CoResult
Formative Evaluation of the 3rd Master-University-Course "Global Citizen Education" (Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt in cooperation with KommEnt and University of Vienna) J.M. Krier, S. Höck/EOP, 2020-2023
For the third time, J.M. Krier and S. Höck are evaluating this six-semester, part-time master's program, which lays the educational and social science foundations for global citizenship education and brings together different perspectives - political education, education for sustainable development, global learning, peace education. 36 students - teachers from schools and adult education, teacher trainers as well as staff from NGOs - are participating in this course. The focus of the current evaluation is on examining the competencies achieved by the participants (comparison of baseline data with data at the end of the course), regular surveys of the seminars, and an analysis of the student internships.
The course received the Austrian Sustainability Award 2018 in the field of Teaching and Curricula and 2020/2021 the Award "Quality and good practice in Global Education across Europe" from GENE, the European Network for Global Education
Austrian Foundation for Development Research
2021/2022
The subject of the evaluation was the programme “ÖFSE – Bibliothek, Information und Dokumentation” of the Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE) funded by Austrian Development Cooperation funds in the period 2016-2021.
The programme comprised five main areas: 1) the continuation and further development of the library, 2) the provision of information, 3) provision of advice and support as well as specific offers (e. g. workshops) especially for target groups in schools (students, teachers), 4) public relations, and 5) the conference centre. The evaluation focused primarily on the areas 3) and 5).
The objectives of the evaluation were:
- determine the extent to which ÖFSE managed to reach the target groups of students and teachers with its information and education offers on sustainable/international development,
- to evaluate the concept for the expansion of the C3 - Center for International Development as a place of encounter and a “Living Library” in terms of its relevance, effectiveness and sustainability,
- recommend future programme strategies based on an assessment of the potentials and risks of digital offers that had been adapted and further developed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The evaluation followed a multi-perspective, participatory and utilization-focused approach. Attention was paid to including all stakeholder groups and to arrive at reliable results through triangulation.
More information
Team: Dr. M. Gutknecht-Gmeiner/IMPULSE und S. Höck/EOP
Engagement Global: Evaluation of the Federal Coordination Programme for ESD in formal education
05/2021 to 03/2022
The “Federal Coordination Programme for ESD in formal education”, managed by Engagement Global, aims at integrating education for sustainable development (ESD), with specific consideration of the global perspective, in the formal education of the 16 federal states of Germany. The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) funds this programme within the framework of its larger programme in formal education. The external evaluation examines the effectiveness of the pilot-phase of the federal coordination programme, with a specific view on identifying further potentials for the next programme phase starting in 2021.
Executive Summary
More information on the federal coordination programm
Team: Prof. Dr. Claudia Bergmüller-Hauptmann, Eva Quiring, EQ EvaluationsGmbH und
S. Höck/EOP
Misereor: Evaluation of ZUSAmmen & Gerecht, Youth Programme for Global Solidarity
2021
The former Lenten Action for Youth of MISEREOR and BDKJ, the Federation of German Catholic Youth, turns into a Summer Programme. The formative evaluation monitors the new project, and focuses, inter alia, on the reach of social media used in the action as well as on the summer academy training of multipliers.
External Evaluation of cross-project evaluations at Bread for the World and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, 2020/2021
The external evaluation looked at large cross-project evaluations at Bread for the World and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe which the department for result had commissioned between 2016 and May 2020. 20 evaluations of the following types were examined: funding area evaluations, programme-evaluations, cross-sectional evaluations, strategy evaluation with regard to the organisation’s internal strategies, policies and structure, and meta-evaluations. The aim of this evaluation was twofold: It should serve both reporting purposes vis à vis the BMZ as co-funder of projects and programmes as well as to contribute to enhancing current practice of cross-section evaluation within EWDE.
More information regarding cross-project-evaluations
Terms of Reference of the evaluation
Team: Dr. M. Gutknecht-Gmeiner/IMPULSE und S. Höck/EOP
Engagement Global GmbH - Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW)
Evaluation of the focus area “Migration and development at the local level”
2019/2020
Many organisations for migration get involved in development policy. By implementing various measures in the focus area of “Migration and development at the local level”, the Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW) wants to bring visibility to the opportunities that arise for the communities by combining these two topics and make them available to these communities. After all, this connection strengthens the communities’ development policy, fosters their intercultural competence and contributes to integration in the communities.
The evaluation investigated six measures for the focus area and drew up recommendations for the further design and setting of priorities.
More informationen on SKEW
Team: S. Höck/EOP, J.M. Krier/KommEnt, Bericht 2020
More information: Jennifer Ichikawa, jennifer.ichikawa(at)engagement-global.de
Engagement Global GmbH – Education meets Development (BtE, “Bildung trifft Entwicklung”)
External evaluation of the programme “Education meets Development” 2017
Education meets Development (BtE) aims to sensitise various target groups within the school and extracurricular setting towards global connections and acts of solidarity, and to encourage their civil involvement for sustainable development in Germany and abroad. To this end, returning professionals and volunteers from the field of development cooperation as well as people from countries in the Global South offer educational measures. BtE qualifies, supports, trains and counsels these instructors to prepare them for their teaching and mediation tasks.
Following an initial evaluation in 2007, the consortium of the programme Education meets Development had the education programme of the same name, which was funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, evaluated by EOP and KommEnt once more. The main focus was on the quality development and further advancement of the programme.
Team: H. Grobbauer and J.M. Krier/KommEnt; S. Höck/EOP
Engagement Global GmbH
Stocktaking (mapping) of existing African-German youth exchanges and their sponsors, 2015
The African-German Youth Initiative commenced its activities in June 2016, and promotes exchanges between young people from African countries and Germany.
Before the launch of the initiative, EOP and KommEnt carried out a comprehensive stocktaking.
This mapping identified and analysed
a) existing measures in the area of youth exchanges between Germany and African countries (description of relevant actors and stakeholders) and
b) existing funding programmes based on objectives, target groups, admission requirements, funding amounts, funding criteria and funded formats as well as additionally, derived from this, gaps in funding (description of the funding landscape).
Team: S. Höck/EOP, J.M. Krier/KommEnt, 2015 report
Further information & contact: info(at)engagement-global.de
Engagement Global GmbH - Service Agency Communities in One World
Host city programme “2014 World Cup Brazil – Germany 2006/2011: partners for sustainable urban development”, 2015
The aim of the evaluation of this local development cooperation programme was to study
a) the developmental impact abroad,
b) the learning and educational effects in Germany,
c) the degree to which commitment would be fostered in Germany as well as
d) the suitability as a model for future projects related to local development policy. The analysis of the programme was carried out according to the OECD DAC evaluation criteria of relevance, effectiveness, developmental impacts and sustainability.
Programme documentation with a summary of the evaluation: Schriftenreihe Dialog Global (global dialogue publication series) no. 35: Host city programme 2014 World Cup Brazil – Germany 2006/2011: partner for sustainable urban development. Completion documentation, p. 48-51.
Team: S. Höck/EOP, Marlene Pinheiro Gonçalves, Marco Hanitzsch/CoResult.eu, Susanne Neymeyer
Further information: Herr Ulrich Held, ulrich.held(at)engagement-global.de
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Review of Viability Assessment for Bonobo Ecotourism in the Salonga National Park Region / Democratic Republic of Congo, 2014/2015
For a planned ecotourism project in LuiKotale/Salonga National Park in the DRC, the study evaluated results from available surveys, compared these to data from expert interviews and the scientific literature, and elaborated potential steps for a continuation of the project.
Team: S. Höck/EOP, J.M. Krier/KommEnt
Further information: PD Dr. Barbara Fruth, B.I.Fruth(at)ljmu.ac.uk
BGZ – Berlin International Cooperation Agency
Global Fairness: Schools as Agents of Change, 2014/2015
This project, which was implemented by nine European partner organisations, also relied on the support of the evaluation. The investigation focused in particular on how Global Education can be established in schools and how schools can develop to become “Agents of Change” in their respective local environment.
Team: S. Höck/EOP, J.M. Krier/KommEnt
Further information: Justyna Ellis, Ellis(at)BGZ-Berlin.de
Welthaus (World House) Bielefeld
Model schools for global learning, 2012-2014; 2014-2016
The evaluations examine organisational and personal conditions for success for the implementation of global learning in regular school lessons at three different types of schools in North Rhine-Westphalia. A broad repertoire of methods is employed: group discussions, group interviews, individual interviews, pre and post-surveys amongst students and teachers.
Team: Dr. C. Bergmüller-Hauptmann/University of Bamberg (management), S. Höck/EOP, report 1: 2014, report 2: 2016
Further information: Welthaus Bielefeld, info(at)welthaus.de
Model schools for global learning
Ministry of Urban Development and Environment, Coordination Centre for Climate Issues, Hamburg
Evaluation of the Hamburg Climate Protection Concept, 2011/2012
The evaluation assessed the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the measures adopted as part of the climate protection concept and investigated the structures, processes and instruments that were established within the framework of this concept. The aim was to create a foundation for the subsequent adjustment and further updating of the climate protection concept.
Team: K. Schönthaler/bosch & partner, J.M. Krier/KommEnt
Further information: Cordelia König, Cordelia.Koenig(at)bue.hamburg.de
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