The Center for Evaluation (CEval) is a research, consulting and educational institution that is unique in Germany. Since 2002 they have been conducting evaluations in various different fields of civil society and state action, advising public and private organisations on the development of monitoring systems and evaluation concepts, and providing academic and non-academic education and training programmes in the field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E).

The results of their work are regularly utilised in pure research and ploughed back into the academic and scientific discourse, for example by the publication of specialist publications and textbooks, or the hosting of international conferences. They thus contribute both to the further development of evaluation research in conceptional and methodological terms and to keeping a wide public audience informed.

Services:

Contract and Pure Research

• - Ex-ante, interim, final and ex-post evaluation, meta-evaluations
• - Assessment of impact and sustainability
• - Process and efficiency analyses
• - System, sector, field and strategy evaluation
• - Organizational and network analyses

Consulting Services

• - Scientific support of internally-conducted evaluations and evaluation consulting services
• - Development, realization and implementation of impact-oriented monitoring systems
• - Advisory service regarding commissioning and steering externalevaluations

Education and Training

• - Postgraduate academic study program ‘Master of Evaluation’
• - Advanced short-term training programs
• - One to one or small group coaching sessions, as well as in-house training tailored to your specific requirements

The main points of emphasis in their work: 

1. - Development cooperation: e.g. state and non-state cooperation, capacity development, training assignments and in-situ work abroad relating to development policy, humanitarian aid
2. - Education: e.g. school, vocational and tertiary education, promotion of graduates and research
3. - Culture: e.g. foreign and German cultural policy, bilateral and multilateral cooperation, promotion of art and culture, international media cooperation, instruments of information and communication
4. - Job market: e.g. regional research, cross-border job markets, active job market policy, instruments of corporate development, trade union research
5. - Environment: e.g. communication on environment and sustainability, sustainable economies and sustainable production chains, environmental education and enlightenment, environmental behaviour, environmentally friendly consumption
6. - Health and social affairs: e.g. health enlightenment, education and training in health and social affairs, social advisory institutions