The external evaluation of the project was developed applying the five OECD criteria (Relevance, Efficiency, Efficiency, Sustainability and Impact). In-depth interviews and focus groups were conducted with the beneficiaries of 6 rural communities in the municipalities of Achocalla, Mecapaca and Calamarca of the department of La Paz, a focus group with the project executing team (AYNI staff), and eye inspections were conducted to the equipments endowed to the peasant producers by this project.

This contract has been developed in two components: (i) the final evaluation of the Program; and (ii) the systematization of the program's experiences. The evaluation has been developed based on the criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact, mainstreaming the gender and intercultural approach, in the framework of IWRM and MIC, while systematization has been developed taking as axis the results, objectives and end embodied in the Logical Framework of the Program. For the collection of information 321 structured interviews have been applied to municipal and community authorities, and representatives of productive organizations, peasants, originators, mining cooperatives, neighborhood associations and educational units in the area of influence of the Program, more than a dozen have been made from field visits to the project sites, 10 focus groups were carried out, an evaluation document was produced, a book-type document of the systematization, an album with 300 photographs and a documentary video of the intervention.

Economic and financial evaluation of a sample of 84 productive projects implemented in rural areas of the municipalities of Charagua, Pailón, Minero, San Ignacio de Velasco and Concepción in the department of Santa Cruz; the projects consisted of providing productive capital (productive and livestock lands), training and technical assistance to productive associations formed by local families; The methodology of the evaluation included the application of participatory workshops with the associated families, reconstruction of investment structures, costs and income.

Preparation of a business plan at the pre-feasibility level for the implementation of a chain of coffee shops at the national level aimed at internal and external tourism, a study carried out for the company AGRICAVB SA. Local economic development.

Evaluation of productive projects financed through the Concursable PROBOLIVIA fund

Support to the Junior expert of the evaluation mission of the local economic development and food security program (PRODELSA) (13 million Euros) under the budget support modality. It relied on the systematization of secondary information regarding: (i) the associative and organizational processes of local actors and their evolution; (ii) the interrelationships and interventions with local and decentralized institutions (State dependencies, municipal mayorships, etc.); (iii) the training and communication processes of the Program; and (iv) the participatory methodologies applied in the framework of the Program.

Training of the UGP staff in Project management and design cycle: Problem tree, objectives tree, stakeholder map, logical framework matrix (MML), construction of indicators, practical guide of administrative procedures, tenders, services and supplies . Technical support to the UGP team in the preparation of the budget-program one (PP1), for the full execution of the program, accounting aspects.

Design and implementation of the mid-term evaluation of the project "Food Governance in the Andean Region", consisted in verifying the progress of the Project a year and a half after the start of its implementation. A systematization of the information generated by the Project was done in the three countries, interviews with project beneficiaries, partners, local authorities, delegate of the European Union, focus groups with beneficiaries and project managers, and field visits.

A technical-normative diagnosis was elaborated regarding the creation and management of small and medium public-private companies in Bolivia; a proposal for a departmental law for the creation of departmental companies was prepared; a proposal of Law for the central level of the State was elaborated that incorporates in the regime of administrative systems and of governmental control of the Law 466 to the companies created by the Autonomous Territorial Entities at departmental level; a management model for small and medium-sized public-private companies was developed, which includes proposals for regulations, statutes, organization, structure and governance; A proposal of administrative procedures for the management, administration and control of financial resources of public and private SMEs was prepared.

Survey of primary qualitative information in 8 intervention municipalities of the Plan Vida Project, in the departments of Cochabamba and Potosí, in intervention communities and control communities, through individual interviews with members of the Municipal Prioritization Committees and collective interviews with men and women participants and non-participants of the PPV; The study focused on obtaining information regarding: (i) the process of prioritizing participating communities and projects; (ii) the reasons and motives of the families to participate or not participate in the PPV; (iii) spillover effects generated by the PPV in non-participating communities.

Study to identify the impacts generated by the sugarcane production chain on children in specific territories, beyond child labor, in order to build evidence and strategies to promote comprehensive respect for the children and adolescents rights in the influence area of  this productive agricultural activity.

Analysis and description of the most attractive markets to develop gastronomic businesses in the identified Chiquitanía municipalities, through documentary review, semi-structured interviews, demand survey, existing offer files systematization and tourist and commercial centers tour; collected information analysis identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, potentialities, limitations, challenges and risks of eventual undertakings in the region. Business plans preparation for the identified ventures, including marketing plans.

Analysis of socio-ecological data in time series of 10 municipalities in La Paz department, construction of tables and report graphs that show the intercensal variations (from 2001 to 2012) and in time series that consider projections (to 2018)

Information managing assistance to the Budget Support Expert in the Budgetary Support's evaluation of the European Union to the Colombian milky sector and the milky policy of the sector in the period 2010 - 2018

The project "Environmental governance and consolidation of sustainable production systems in the Departments of Boquerón/Alto Paraguay (Paraguay) and Santa Cruz/Chuquisaca (Bolivia)" is financed by the Delegation of the European Union Bolivia and co-financed and executed by the Research Center and Promotion of the Peasantry (CIPCA) as coordinator of the project, OXFAM Bolivia, OXFAM Paraguay, Indigenous Procommunities (PCI) of Paraguay and Alter Vida of Paraguay. The project execution period was from January 1, 2018 to April 30, 2022.

The objective of the proposal is to contribute to environmental and productive sustainability in the degraded biomes of the Chaco, the Chiquitano Dry Forest and the Pantanal of South America as a basis to allow the population that lives in that territory, mainly indigenous people, to improve their situation. and condition.

Three results are planned at the level of achievements that take into account the common problems in the prioritized biomes, but also the specific needs and advances in each territory where the project is implemented. The project proposes to strengthen capacities at various levels (individuals, families, productive associations, leaders/managers, communities and organizations) and topics (resilient development, governance, use of technologies for sustainable production, concerted demands and proposals, entrepreneurship management) of the indigenous and peasant population, with a special affirmative action directed towards women and young people, to preserve and project the environmental values of the prioritized biomes (Rz2).

A survey was applied to a sample of 792 families living in 56 communities, distributed in 8 municipalities of the departments of Santa Cruz (Charagua, Cuevo, Gutiérrez, Lagunillas Boyuibe) and Chuquisaca (Macharetí, Muyupampa and Huacaya), on food security, means of life and coping strategies, was complemented with information available in the SPIE State Comprehensive Planning System.

The final evaluation of the Project was developed in the final phase of execution, applying the criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, replicability, scalability and impact, in addition to identifying learned lessons and good practices, on the way to the execution of the second phase; semi-structured individual and collective interviews were carried out, field visits were made to communities of the Project of the 4 sub-stations where it was executed; Titiri, Queojo, Kellu Kasa and Palcoyu, the field evaluation mission was closed with a workshop to present the first findings with the participation of all interested parties in San Pedro de Macha

The evaluation of the project executed by AYNI, with funding from the Basque Country, was carried out between December 2019 and June 2022, with the participation of 12 productive organizations, social organizations (Túpaks and Bartolinas) and public and private institutions, seeking to promote the implementation and construction of a social and solidarity economic development model in the municipality of Mecapaca. The methodology suggested by the OECD-DAC was implemented (based on the criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact), applying individual and collective semi-structured interviews, field visits and documentary review.

Evaluation of the project "Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy in the Bolivian Altiplano" funded by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia for a total of 108 thousand euros. The methodology suggested by the OECD-DAC (criteria of relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact) was used, for which field visits, individual and collective semi-structured interviews and a documentary review were carried out.

Evaluation of the DAC Project "Dialogue and Collaborative Support" which aimed to promote that the key issues for the development of Bolivia are addressed from a democratic spirit and of shared responsibility between the State, civil society, the private sector and academia, thanks to the development of innovative solutions; in this sense, the DAC Project financed development initiatives of 49 CSOs throughout the country. For the development of the evaluation, the following criteria were considered: (i) Pertinence and relevance; (ii) Effectiveness, efficiency and impact; (iii) Coherence; (iv) Incidence and sustainability; (v) Knowledge management and communication; (vi) Prospective; an exhaustive review of the documentation generated by the Project and its M&E system was carried out, semi-structured individual and collective interviews were conducted with key informants and the target population, and field visits were made to initiatives in El Alto, Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca.

An evaluation of the project "Contribute to the full exercise of the social, economic and political rights of 226 women leaders of the municipality of Calamarca, with gender equality and promoting environmentally sustainable productive initiatives, in line with goals 5.4 and 5.5 of SDG 5. File GN 11 1458 2020 66" was carried out considering the criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability, for which semi-structured interviews were applied to the project implementing team, to Bartolina authorities, to the mayor and municipal officials of the Calamarca GAM, to the technical team that participated in the project, field visits and interviews were carried out with the target population, in addition to reviewing the project documentation and the respective means of verification; The project has been relevant in socially, politically and economically strengthening the Bartolina Sisa central and sub-central plants at the municipal level, as well as productive associations, and has promoted economic recovery and adaptation to climate change in the territory.