The NACS 2020-2025 is subject to a comprehensive independent final evaluation designed to assess how effectively the Strategy has been implemented and how it has contributed to strengthening Lebanon’s national integrity system.
Objectives
Results-Oriented Assessment
- Evaluates results and determines if the Strategy’s 7 outcomes were effectively achieved and how they contributed to attaining the 3 strategic objectives.
- Analyzes how the NACS priorities and outputs contributed to these objectives.
Identify Strengths and Weaknesses
Identifies strengths and weaknesses throughout the analysis in the coordination, implementation, and monitoring of the NACS.
Insight-Driven Recommendations
- Delivers recommendations to inform future anti-corruption strategies
- Supports continuous reform through lessons learned and targeted improvements and contributes to evidence-based policymaking.
What the Evaluation Addresses
The evaluation assesses the NACS against six key dimensions based on the UN Evaluation Group Norms and Standards for Evaluation and the OECD-DAC Evaluation Criteria.
Criteria
Key Objectives
Relevance
- Assess whether the NACS outcomes were clearly defined, achievable, and logically linked to outputs and
- Examine the relevance of goals and measures in light of Lebanon’s corruption landscape (2020–2025) and the Strategy’s theory of change.
- Review how strategic objectives, outcomes, and indicators targeted high-risk sectors and enabled localized anti-corruption action.
- Evaluate the NACS responsiveness to emerging national priorities and evolving contexts.
Coherence
- Assess the horizontal and vertical coherence of the NACS with national policies and anti-corruption initiatives.
- Examine alignment between NACS and Lebanon’s legal and institutional frameworks for preventing and combating corruption.
- Identify complementarities and synergies with related strategies including governance reforms, money laundering prevention, and asset recovery mechanisms.
Effectiveness
- Assess the extent of implementation of NACS at the macro level (strategic objectives and outcomes).
- Identify and analyze key results achieved through the strategy’s execution.
- Highlight strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in implementation.
Efficiency
- Assess whether financial, human, and material resources dedicated to NACS were used efficiently.
- Examine how resource allocation contributed to achieving the strategy’s intended results.
Impact
- Assess the influence of NACS implementation on the state of corruption in Lebanon.
- Highlight observable changes, if available, using international and national indicators.
Sustainability
- Analyze whether NACS results can be sustained over time.
- Review the strength of behavioural, legal, and institutional frameworks supporting long-term impact.
- Assess the level of stakeholder ownership and commitment to preserving and advancing anti-corruption outcomes.
How the Evaluation is conducted
The evaluation applies a mixed-methods approach that combines:
- Desk reviews of legislation, monitoring reports, and national and international best practices
- Online surveys, interviews, and consultations with public institutions, civil society, academia, the private sector, and international partners.
- Triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data to ensure credibility and impartiality.
The final evaluation is a forward-looking reform instrument. Its findings directly inform the development of the next National Anti-Corruption Strategy (2026–2030) by identifying scalable reforms, institutional and capacity gaps, priority sectoral risks, and evidence-based recommendations to strengthen Lebanon’s integrity system in the next reform cycle.
The Evaluation Report is currently being reviewed and validated by the Ministerial Anti-Corruption Committee.