Safe and Inclusive Cities final evaluation : executive summary
Overall, the SAIC Program was found to be highly relevant to both DFID and IDRC, embodying and advancing their distinct and shared global, institutional and regional priorities.
Overall, the SAIC Program was found to be highly relevant to both DFID and IDRC, embodying and advancing their distinct and shared global, institutional and regional priorities.
The evaluation assesses the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the programme (including its overall value-for-money), as well as the quality of the research.
The program currently supports 15 teams across 16 countries and 40 cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. The teams use a diversity of research methods to explore a variety of themes related to urban violence.
Some obstacles for measuring innovation in developing economies are: differing evolutionary paths; demand on special indicators to measure innovativeness; the complexity of enterprise processes; and the role of the non-technological dimension.
Participants were concerned about how to ensure the strategies being proposed by the World Development Report (WDR) would in fact be implemented; there needed to be a very clear explanation of past failures.