Mexico

The evaluation of the Danish Energy Partnership Programmes (DEPP) covers more than a decade of bilateral cooperation supporting the green energy transition in emerging economies. Since 2012, these programmes have engaged Denmark with key partner countries such as China, India, South Africa, Vietnam, and Mexico, whose future energy choices will significantly shape global emissions. DEPP provides technical assistance in long-term energy planning, renewable energy integration, energy efficiency, and the development of regulatory frameworks.

The overall objective of the evaluation is to strengthen accountability and learning by documenting results and assessing DEPP’s contributions to capacity strengthening, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. More specifically, the study will analyse the programmes’ relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability. By doing so, it will generate lessons learned and actionable recommendations to inform the design and implementation of future programmes, consolidating Denmark’s role as a trusted partner in advancing global climate and energy goals

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The overall objective of the LCBA programme was to promote EU companies on low carbon and circular economy related technologies and services at regional scale in the Americas

The Action contributed to promote and defend EU economic interests, in particular SMEs and small-mid caps, on the regional stage and thus constituted a major operational action in support of an EU Economic

Diplomacy. It also contributed to the limitation and/or reduction of industrial GHG emissions in line with the commitments of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

This project was part of the programme "Institutional Strengthening of AMEXCID" which is a Mexican development agency. The programme aimed at launching innovative joint initiatives to implement global agendas and to improve the instruments and governance structures in AMEXCID.

In the framework of this contract, services in two major areas were provided:

1) Impact monitoring

• Recording the direct effects of the individual measures (outcome - specific) and their aggregation with regard to overall achievement indicators (outcome - program objective level);
• Recording the indirect impact of the program indicators and individual measures for the 2030 Agenda in Mexico, as well as GIZ's sector-specific, aggregated governance indicators.

2) Impact evaluation: The contribution of the project to the institutional anchoring of Mexican cooperation policy

• Evaluation of the contribution of the project to the cooperation policy AMEXCIDs on global topics and agendas and the impact on German-Mexican cooperation in global topics and agendas;
• Evaluation of the contribution of the project to the implementation of the cooperation policy (PROCID: Programa de Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo) within Mexico and at international level;
• Evaluation of the strategic approach of GIZ to promote a development agency with recommendations for similar projects and approaches.

The project provides a comprehensive analysis of wildlife trade between Mexico and the EU (whether legally or illegally traded; and whether CITES listed or non-CITES listed species); in order to improve the implementation of CITES and other related policies related to tackling illegal wildlife trade, through closer collaboration on wildlife trade policies, as well as a better understanding of both Parties legal and illegal wildlife market. Moreover, it provides a clear and updated characterization of the legal and illegal trade in wildlife between Mexico and the EU, and on the basis of this, provides recommendations towards the development and implementation of actions aiming at ensuring that wildlife trade is sustainable, legal, and traceable, while providing economic incentives to the main stakeholders of their value chain (from the local and indigenous communities to the end consumer markets, e.g. European industry).

Specific objectives of this assignment are:

• Identification and prioritization of species (whether CITES listed or not) subject to high levels of legal and illegal trade between Mexico and the EU;
• Based on an exhaustive trade analysis of the selected species, development of recommendations for the establishment and implementation of actions to strengthen and improve bilateral collaboration and information exchange of pre-selected species in order to promote that wildlife trade is sustainable, legal, and traceable.

The Evaluation of the EU development cooperation support to Higher Education in partner countries (2007-2014) evaluated the design and the implementation of policies, strategies and sector programmes of the EU’s past and current development cooperation support to higher education.

The main objectives of the evaluation were:

• to provide the relevant external co-operation services of the EU and the wider public with an independent assessment of the development cooperation support provided to higher education in partner countries over the period 2007-2014;
• to identify key lessons and forward-looking recommendations.

The evaluation used the five standard OECD/DAC evaluation criteria, namely relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability. In addition, the evaluation also looked at the EU added value and the 3Cs.

The evaluation was conducted in four phases

• An Inception Phase, focusing on the design and the methodology of the evaluation including the reconstruction of the intervention logic and the compilation of a comprehensive inventory incl. monetary flow of all relevant activities between 2007 and 2014;
• A Desk Phase, focusing on gathering and analysing existing data and information (through literature/document reviews and interviews/focus groups/surveys);
• A Field Phase, including preparation of field missions, visits to the case study countries (Cameroon, the Dominican republic, Egypt, Guatemala, Kenya, Mexico, Moldova, South Africa) and drafting of country notes;
• A Synthesis Phase, producing a final report and dissemination of results to concerned stakeholders.

The report is available at: https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/strategic-evaluation-eu-development-co-operation-support-higher-education-partner-countries-2007_en