DEval - German Institute for Development Evaluation
Julia Schäfer is an experienced evaluator currently working at DEval - German Institute for Development Evaluation since January 2025. Prior to this role, Julia served as a Project Manager and Consultant at GOPA Worldwide Consultants from October 2022 to January 2025, focusing on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning. Julia's earlier positions include Junior Project Manager at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability, where research centered on Investment Facilitation Agreements in Zambia, Togo, and Lao PDR, and a Postgraduate Research Fellow. Additional experience includes roles as Student Assistant at GFA Consulting Group GmbH and The University of Göttingen, a Junior Consultant at Deutsche Sparkassenstiftung für internationale Kooperation, and an intern at KfW. Julia holds a Master of Science in Development Economics from The University of Göttingen and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Economics from the University of Münster.
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DEval - German Institute for Development Evaluation
The principal goal of DEval - the German Institute for Development Evaluation (Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit) is to independently conduct strategic evaluations on German development cooperation. The institute also helps to improve methods and standards of evaluation and promotes evaluation capacity development (ECD) in partner countries of German development cooperation. Through its independent, research-based evaluations, DEval supports the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and its implementing organisations as well as NGOs in their efforts to improve German development cooperation. DEval also reports to the German Bundestag. Through providing evaluation based evidence, the institute supports the legislative in performing its parliamentary functions. DEval builds strategic partnerships with evaluation and research organisations and disseminates its work to policy-makers, implementing agencies, research and the broader public in order to generate an evidence-based dialogue on how to improve German development cooperation. The evaluation reports and publications of DEval are available via: https://www.deval.org/en/evaluation-reports.html