Evaluation of the Ghana — Denmark partnership (2007-2017). The evaluation will assess Denmark's contribution to addressing the national development challenges, how the partnership is perceived now and where it leaves us for the future, different, cooperation.

The Denmark — Ghana Partnership Policy 2014-18 states that ‘given Ghana's own resources and economic development, its status as Lower Middle Income Country, its new partnerships with the BRICS countries and other emerging economies, the country is no longer depending on development aid to the same extent as previously, and it wants to pursue inter alia trade, commercial investments and credits’. Denmark aims at upscaling political and commercial cooperation while at the same time downscaling development assistance to the country in the period after 2014. On that basis and given the present reduction in the Danish aid budget, the coming years will constitute a period of transition in the Danish-Ghanaian partnership and the last Danida funded sector programme will come to an end by 2020.

The current Denmark-Ghana Partnership Policy 2014-2018 envisages a transition of the partnership from primarily development cooperation to political cooperation and commercial cooperation.

The objective of the evaluation will be to assess the results achieved and their sustainability in light of the fact that the development cooperation between Ghana and Denmark will be reduced and gradually taken over by such a new strategic partnership. The evaluation will evaluate the current state of the Ghana-Denmark partnership on the basis of past achievements and future opportunities.

The evaluation will assess Denmark's contribution to addressing the national development challenges, how the partnership is perceived now and where it leaves us for the future, different, cooperation.

The overall purpose of the evaluation is therefore two-fold:

1. To document and assess the results of the Danish-Ghanaian development partnership and its contribution to the overall development in Ghana with emphasis on the period from 2007 (the earlier period being covered by the first country evaluation). Focus will primarily be on the overall development results within the relevant areas, the Danish contribution to these results and their sustainability. The evaluation will focus on a selected number of areas, which have been most prominent in the partnership.

2. To assess the strengths and opportunities of the Danish-Ghanaian partnership as it stands today, in its historic context, as a basis for the transition and further development of the partnership. It is envisaged that a Ghanaian perspective, represented through the perceptions of the partnership of various governmental and non-government actors on different levels will be an important element in this assessment.