Venezuela

The Evaluation of Disability Inclusion in EU-funded humanitarian aid operations (2020–2025) assesses how disability inclusion has been integrated into DG ECHO-funded humanitarian interventions five years after the publication of its 2019 Operational Guidance on the inclusion of persons with disabilities. The global objective of this evaluation is twofold:

• To provide the relevant EU services and stakeholders with an independent assessment of the extent to which DG ECHO-funded humanitarian interventions have mainstreamed disability inclusion across sectors and contexts, while also supporting disability-targeted actions and relevant policy projects;
• To identify key lessons learned, conclusions, and recommendations to inform decision-makers on how to strengthen disability inclusion in current and future EU-funded humanitarian aid operations, including through improved programming, data use, participation, and accessibility.

The specific objectives are:

• to assess the relevance of DG ECHO’s operational guidance in supporting staff and partners to mainstream disability inclusion in EU-funded humanitarian aid interventions;
• to assess the level, quality, and effectiveness of disability inclusion across all sectors, covering both mainstreaming and disability-targeted actions;
• to assess ECHO-funded policy projects on disability inclusion, including their coherence with EU policy, relevance to global priorities and needs, added value for partners and the broader humanitarian system, and achieved results;
• to assess the capacity of DG ECHO staff and partners to operationalise disability inclusion in programming, including through available requirements, tools, and practices;
• to identify barriers, enablers, gaps, lessons learned, and good practices in disability inclusion, and to develop actionable strategic and operational recommendations for future DG ECHO strategies, policies, programming priorities, guidance, and tools.

The global objective of this study is to develop a methodology for assessing the economic impact of EU sanctions and to apply that methodology to a number of selected cases to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed framework.

The specific objectives of the proposed study are to

• provide a review and critical evaluation of the existing research related to the topic of the study;
• develop a detailed methodology for analysing the economic impact of EU sanctions, including a description of the concrete steps, options and approaches, that can be replicated and adapted to different types of sanctions and sanctions combinations; and
• test this methodology on a number of selected case studies to demonstrate its usefulness and highlight the related conditions, limitations and issues identified or foreseen.

The ‘economic impact of EU sanctions’ is understood as meaning the impact of EU sanctions on: (1) the economic development of third countries with listed persons and entities directly affected by EU sanctions; (2) the wider economic sectors of which those listed persons and entities by EU sanctions are part of in those third countries; (3) the listed persons and entities themselves; (4) trade patterns between the EU and third countries directly concerned; and (5) EU companies operating in or with third countries directly affected by EU sanctions.

The global objective of the assignment is to support good governance, including the strengthening of civil society, and the promotion and protection of human rights in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela. The specific objective is to support the strengthening of EU grant beneficiaries’ capacities in the implementation of their projects.