Housing for social integration
During the implementation of the evaluation cycle “Social housing for low-income persons”, it became evident that not all projects classified in that sector of action could be compared in their intervention logic, notably at the level of outcomes and types of investments financed. Hence the decision to launch a distinct evaluation cycle focusing on CEB-financed projects targeting the housing needs of population groups at high risk of social exclusion.
The cycle covers evaluation of CEB-financed projects targeting the housing needs of the following population groups: Roma (two projects), immigrants (two projects) and returnees (three projects).
Based on a review of the Bank’s portfolio of relevant completed projects, the Office of Evaluation contracted a specialised consulting company to assist with the drafting of an analytical framework for the evaluation of eight such projects. Said framework offers an operational definition of the key five evaluation criteria (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability) and proposes a set of evaluation questions that are relevant to the evaluation cycle as a whole as well as to each project slotted for evaluation.
The cycle consists of the following six completed evaluations:
Improving immigrants’ access to mortgages for housing purchase #1 (2012)
Improving immigrants’ access to mortgages for housing purchase #2 (2013)
Housing for social integration of ex-deportees and political prisoners (2013)
Social housing for low-income families in a Roma neighbourhood (2015)
Housing for returning refugees and displaced persons in Croatia (2017)