Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, international support for recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine has increased significantly, a development that was paralleled by Ukraine’s official candidacy for European Union (EU) accession in June 2022. This discussion paper examines how evidence-based decision making can be strengthened in fragile and conflict-affected states, using Ukraine’s national evaluation system, its capacities, the ongoing reconstruction and the EU accession process as a case study. This discussion paper theoretically builds on the findings regarding challenges to evidence-based decision making in international civilian interventions in fragile and conflict affected states. Methodologically, the discussion paper is based on a qualitative case study analysis and is the product of a collaboration between the German Institute forDevelopment Evaluation (DEval) and members of the Ukrainian Evaluation Association (UEA). It combines international and domestic perspectives on evaluation and evaluation systems.
Wagner et al. (Wed,) studied this question.