Evaluation of the Orange Knowledge Programme
On 1 July 2017, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) launched the Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) as a successor to the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) and the Netherlands Initiative for Capacity Building in Higher Education (NICHE). Implementation ran from 2018 to 2024 under the coordination of Nuffic. With a budget of around €310 million, OKP represented a major Dutch investment in education and capacity building. The programme operated in 55 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
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OKP supported partnerships between Dutch and local education and training institutions, group trainings, scholarships and alumni activities, with special attention to cross-cutting priorities such as gender equality, inclusion, employability, environmental sustainability, digitalisation and knowledge exchange.
The final evaluation of the OKP covered the assessment of its relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and gender equality. Data were collected through portfolio and country-level interviews, focus group discussions and document research. Twelve countries with varying geography, priority themes and country contexts were selected for an in-depth analysis, followed by a country visit for additional data collection in four of those countries in the four regions where OKP was active.