The country programmes evaluation focused on: a) how anti-poverty development policies and the agents of policy implementation interacted, and influenced each country programme; b) how cooperation contributed to aid effectiveness in Paris Declaration terms; c) how cooperation contributed to promoting the cross-cutting themes of Finnish development policy; d) how the Finnish development policy frameworks of 1998, 2001, 2004, and 2007 were transformed into practice, including the issue of Finnish value added; and e) how the successes and failures of the recent past can be understood and used to improve the processes of development cooperation.