Unsere Projekte

1) Sound comparative analysis on status quo, coherencies, complementarities and conflicts between national timber legality systems in ASEAN and ASEAN + 3 developed

2) Intervention options for the EU to support the implementation of the ASEAN workplan on FLEG, including an ASEAN common position on timber legality and development of an ASEAN timber legality baseline supportive to robust and effective VPA agreements identified

3) Intervention options for the EU to maintain the momentum of forest governance and trade approaches in ASEAN +3 developed

4) Formulation of a detailed design of the regional support programme through Identification and

Formulation of an Action Document (AD) in line with EU guidelines and official updated templates

The global objective of this project was to provide a short-term expertise to support the EUD in planning for the implementation and monitoring of GAP II for the period 2018-20.

More specifically, the objective was to conduct two Gender Analyses (GAs), one for Yemen and one for Iraq, focusing on the EU development and cooperation strategic areas for each respective country to inform and effectively mainstream gender into the design and formulation of future projects/programmes of the EU Delegation to Yemen/Iraq and EU Member States (EUMS).

To this end, the GAs provided an understanding of the gender inequalities that persist in the economic and political spheres in Yemen and in Iraq, their causes, the changes prompted by the conflict (ongoing in Yemen, and recent in Iraq), and of local authorities' and non-state actors' capacity to work on gender equality in these contexts.

Since 2015, GIZ’s Good Financial Governance Program (GFG) was implementing a large-scale program aiming to create a government-wide M&E system, including core business activities, IT support and capacity building and training. For this program, GIZ acts as implementing agency for UKAid and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The program supported the Ministry of National Development Planning (MNDP), the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Finance (MoF) at the “Apex” level as well as five sectors (Agriculture, Labour, Education, Health and Transport), encompassing seven line ministries.

The services requested under this assignment supported the first and the third pillar GFG’s M&E component, namely Capacity Building and Training on core business M&E activities.

The assignment was embedded in the Zambian Government’s process to produce its Annual Progress Report (APR). In order to improve evidence-based policy making in the context of the APR an in-depth understanding of the national context and how different results in various sectors interact with regards to the achievement of overall development objectives was required.

The APR is used as a monitoring tool and was intended to increase transparency of development outcomes. The ToR stated that the key issue underlying the assignment were the untimely production of the APR due to insufficient capacities of M&E staff to analyse, interpret and communicates meaningfully on the results and findings extracted from the available and assembled data sets from various sectors and line ministries.

Our understanding of the ToR and the status of achievements of the Programme was that the challenge existed in the further use of collected data through M&E activities under the GW-MIS in order to analyse and extract relevant information on actual performance against the N-KPIs. The appropriate, efficient and transparent communication and visualisation of this information gained from data analysis was another crucial element of this assignment.

Subsequently, the objective as described in the ToR was to strengthen the skills of M&E staff in data analysis and communication and to support the APR production process.

Ultimately, this project contributed to better policy decisions for improved service delivery for citizens and higher transparency and accountability

The global objective was to provide technical assistance to Government of South Africa, and in particular the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, to analyze the existing data sources and methods of data collection on incidents of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in the public and private sector.

Related intolerance includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender and disability.

Data refers to any piece of information in numerical or any other form.

The requested technical assistance assisted the government of South Africa with statistical information in the design of country responses to meet its obligations in terms of the DOPA, the ICERD and other international Human Rights treaties referring to discriminations.

The specific objectives of the assignment were:

• Identify and catalogue the methods of data collection, dissemination of data and the publishing of data by existing institutions and structures in the private and public sector with regard to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
• Determine the owners of data, how data is generated and the products/outcomes of these processes.
• Categorise the format of data collected by governmental and non­governmental institutions including academia, think tanks and other civil society organizations
• Provide recommendations on the utilisation of the combined existing databases as a national tool to record incidents of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
• Engage organs of state, non­governmental sector and the private sector in establishing the sources of data and methods used to collect, analyse, disseminate and publish reliable statistical data.
• Literature review on the methods of data collection, dissemination and publishing of data at both national and local levels.
• Conduct an international comparative desktop study on similar data collection methods and processes/ mechanisms.
• Analyse all the regulatory frameworks in South Africa and identify the responsible parties and methods for the collection of data.
• Provide recommendations with regard to the link between the methods of data collection and dissemination and the implementation of the NAP and assist with reliable statistics for the compilation of upcoming country reports.
• Benchmarking and reflecting best practises in data collection, analysis, dissemination and publishing

The global objective was to select the best-quality Concept Notes and Full Application proposals for the Restricted Call for Proposals for IPA II 2014 Grant Scheme ”Strengthening the impact of the Civil Society in effective Justice Sector reforms”, in line with the criteria set in the Guidelines for applicants.

The specific objective of this assignment was to provide independent technical expertise as an assessor (non-voting member) to increase efficiency in the evaluation of project proposals, according to the rules of the Practical Guide to Contract procedures for EU external actions - PRAG.

More specific, the assessors provided technical expertise to:

• Assess and recommend best quality Concept Notes (Step1 – evaluation of Concept Notes) for passing on to the next stage of the evaluation, i.e. the evaluation of Full Applications (Step 2);
• Assess the best quality Full Application (technical and financial assessment) forms (Step 2 – evaluation of Full Applications) for passing on to the final stage of the evaluation, i.e. the evaluation of the eligibility check (Step 3); and identify, based on the evaluation of the application forms, projects that were proposed for funding.

The purpose of this assignment is to collect, collate and systematically present, in the form of Evaluation Portraits and Country Evaluation Briefs, findings from existing evaluations and other documents of development interventions in five Norwegian partner countries: Ethiopia, Haiti, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal and Tanzania.

The objective of this assignment is to provide accessible and relevant knowledge about Norwegian and other donors’ development efforts in Norway’s partner countries through systematising findings from existing evaluations of development interventions. The exercise emphasises learning, supplementing a growing database of systematised, relevant, context-specific and accessible information. Beyond its intrinsic value, this knowledge forms a basis for development policies and strategies, contributes to development efforts in the field and reveals knowledge gaps that could be covered by future evaluations.

The main target groups for the study are the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norad and Norwegian embassies in the selected partner countries and elsewhere.

The assignment is guided by the following questions:

• What are the key contextual features characterising each of the studied case countries?
• How do these contextual features affect development interventions in the respective country/-ies?
• What is the nature of the programmes and projects studied, including levels of development support?
• What are the major obstacles/challenges faced by those interventions?
• What are the major findings in the assessed material concerning the goals, methods, challenges, results and sustainability of the interventions studied?
• How do the programmes and projects perform in terms of such cross-cutting issues as gender equality, environmental concerns and anti-corruption?
• Which, intended and, if any, unintended effects of the programmes and projects, positive and negative, can be identified?

The overall objective of the assignment was to assist the Government of Eswatini in the reduction of poverty in the country.

The purpose of the project was to improve the speed, the quality and the amount of the EU support to Eswatini. The programme aimed to develop the capacity of the NAO support unit to enable the NAO to effectively and efficiently perform and fulfil all of the responsibilities as set out in Article 35 of Annex IV of the Cotonou Agreement. The project also developed the capacity of line ministries, parastatals and NSAs to manage EDF/EU funds and strengthen their capability to design and implement policies, as well as to optimise absorption capacity.

The results of the assignment were defined as follows:

1. The consultant/TAT must ensure that all NAO staff, line ministries, parastatals and NSA’s currently implementing EU funded programmes are well trained in all disciplines related to PCM (identification, formulation, implementation and evaluation), EU procedures, and sound financial management. Training to be undertaken must include but not limited to on the job mentoring, formal training, etc.

2. The consultant/TAT must ensure smooth implementation which includes but is not limited to formulation of contract documents, meeting of contract deadlines, processing of all contract related documents, monitoring and supervision of contracts etc, of all EU funded projects by backstopping programme managers. The TAT is expected to be semi-operational, depending on the situation on the ground.

3. The consultant/TAT is expected to offer technical support at all levels in the identification, formulation as well as the implementation of the 10th EDF and 11th EDF.

4. The consultant/TAT is expected to offer technical support to the NAO/ACMS in performing its general ODA coordination and management role.

The overall objective of the assignment is to further strengthen the capacity of the staff of the EC

(including EUDs) and of the ENI partner countries involved in the design, monitoring and implementation of EU assistance in line with sector focused approach and results based management principles.

The specific objectives are to:

1. Increase the capacity of EC and ENI partner countries' staff to design, implement and monitor programmes/ actions in line with sector focused approach;

2. Improve the quality of actions/interventions and the achievement and reporting of results;

3. Increase the capacity of EC and ENI partner countries' staff to design and manage evaluations.

The direct beneficiaries of this assignment are the European Commission, DG NEAR, including the

EU Delegations and the national authorities in the ENI partner countries.

• EU stakeholders are (non-exhaustive list): EC services - DG NEAR Directorate A, B, C and R; the EU Delegations (Office) in ENI partner countries;
• National stakeholders include (non-exhaustive list): General Secretariats of Government/ Deputy Prime Minister´s or Prime Minister´s Offices, Ministries of Finance, European Integration, other line ministries, Statistical Office etc. The staff of the national authorities of the ENI partner countries and that of the European Commission in headquarters (DG NEAR) and in the EU Delegations involved in programming, monitoring and implementation of EU assistance is the target group of this contract.

Particip reviewed and improved recruitment processes and procedures for CBR.

Furthermore, the team ensured prevention of financial loss to GoIRA which otherwise had needed to pay back salaries to ARTF in case of mis-recruitments.

Objectives of the Assignment were:

• Ensuring merit-based recruitment for CBR positions
• Ensuring smooth continuation of RQA for CBR positions
• Review and improve recruitment processes and procedures for CBR
• Prevention of financial loss to GoIRA (need to pay back salaries to ARTF in case of mis-recruitments)

The objective of the FWC was to provide, via individual assignments defined and contracted through Specific Contracts, short-term technical assistance which can be mobilised at very short notice (normally within about 3 weeks).

The beneficiaries of the short-term technical assistance available via this Framework Contract (FWC) are exclusively third countries benefiting from the Commission’s External aid programmes. The FWC had no overall contractual amount or maximum budget. The implementation duration (not exceeding two years) and the contractual amount (not exceeding € 300,000) were fixed for each individual assignment. These maxima included the possible addenda.

The various assignments were financed from the different budget lines for external aid (the European Communities general budget) and the European Development Fund (EDF).

Implemented missions:

• 06.03.2014 - ongoing: Botswana; Preparation of the 11th EDF SADC programme in the field of Regional Political Cooperation, Budget: €183,443
• 02.04.2014 - ongoing: Cameroon; Evaluation à mi parcour du PASC, Budget: €52,713
• 24.03.2014-ongoing: Niger; Mid-term evaluation of the support programme to civil society (PASOC) II in Niger, Budget: €64,500
• 22.04.2014-ongoing: Uganda; Identification of 11th EDF good governance pillar, Budget: 158,280
• 14.04.2014-ongoing: Azerbaijan; Study on Azerbaijani-Georgian project for 'Implementation of Infrastructure at the 'Red Bridge' Crossing Point', Budget: €55,000
• 22.04.2014-ongoing: Pakistan; Appraisal of EU electoral interventions 2009-2013 to feed into EU ongoing federal and provincial parliamentary programmes, Budget: €99,928
• 09.06.2014-ongoing: Malawi; Mid Term Evaluation of the Democratic Governance Programme in Malawi, Budget: €90,000
• 20.05.2014-ongoing: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Corruption risk assessment in the education and health sectors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Budget: €93,990
• 13.05.2014-ongoing: Mauritania; Election Expert Mission to Mauritania 2014, Budget: €217,898
• 22.06.2014-ongoing: Nigeria; Mid-term Evaluation of the programme Support to the Office of NAO II FED/2010/021-980, Budget: €93,998
• 30.05.2014-ongoing: South Africa; Review of Technical Assistance Models in South Africa, Budget €121,595
• 23.06.2014-ongoing: South Africa; Technical Assistance to Strengthening the e-Learning of the National School of Government, Budget: €108,200
• 01.06.2014-ongoing: Mauritania; Evaluation of the "Program implementation of the 10th EDF (PAMO EDF 10) and instructions for a new program", Budget: €115,000
• 15.08.2014-ongoing: Haiti; Sectoral state of affairs and formulation of component 'Institutional Support' - part II the "Support Programme for Reconstruction and Development of Neighborhoods", Budget: €74,625
• 01.09.2014-ongoing: Armenia; Review of the Sector Support Programme for Support to Justice Reform in Armenia 'Phase II' Project, Budget: €161,992