Cameroon

The general objectives of this program are:

• to improve the efficiency and transparency of tax and expenditure management by the Directorate General of Taxation (DGI) and sector ministries;
• to improve the tax administration's orientation towards citizens and communication with taxpayers from D to C according to the P3-10 standard of the tax administration diagnostic assessment tool (TADAT);
• to evaluate gender- and climate-sensitive programme budgets with 3 sector ministries that play an important role in decentralisation by facilitating the 3 performance (cost-effectiveness) audits from the Audit.

1) Providing technical support to the relevant authorities to accompany the process of revising the national decentralisation strategy, including financial decentralisation.

2) Providing technical support to strengthen spatial planning tools and the capacity of local authorities, particularly with regard to climate action,

3) Technical support for revising the budget timetables of the central government on the one hand and the local authorities on the other, in order to ensure the coherence of these two interdependent planning tools. This will involve strengthening communication and information sharing between central and local players.

The general objective of this contract was to support the Delegation of the European Union to Cameroon in the implementation, in Team Europe mode, of its policy towards Cameroonian youth. The aim was to position youth as a key partner for the EU and its Member States in defining, implementing and monitoring its external policy towards Cameroon.

More specifically, the aim of the contract was to support the EUD in its 3 pillars of the EU Youth Action Plan:

"ENGAGE"

• The creation, structuring and operation in Team Europe mode of a Youth Sounding Board (YSB) in Cameroon,
• Identifying contact points likely to promote coordination and the creation of a regular working relationship based on trust with central and local government players involved in youth issues,
• Preparing communication and visibility actions to promote the EU's commitment to Cameroonian youth.

"EMPOWER"

• Identify a project that could be financed under the initiatives set up by the EU's Youth Action Plan,
• Make the youth theme a transversal element (mainstreaming) of all the projects, programmes and cooperation policies of the European Union in Cameroon (the expert took on the role of technical assistant who trained the programme officers in the integration of young people in all the UECameroon strategic documents),

"CONNECT"

• The formulation of a proposal for action to enable young Cameroonians to be connected to their peers
• The relaunch of the ERASMUS+ exchange programme and a partnership with universities, with a view in particular to the creation of a Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies.

The contractor undertook the formulation of an Action Document (AD) to implement a regional program addressing illicit trafficking and transnational organized crime in selected West African and neighboring Central African countries. This included providing all necessary inputs and conducting comprehensive analysis, documentation review, fact-finding work, and consultations to propose possible options/scenarios for program focus and intervention logic. This work identified key strategic questions/issues to support informed discussions with relevant EU Delegations and other key stakeholders

The project "PASSMAR Outcome 2: National maritime legislative and regulatory frameworks are adopted and law enforcement is strengthened" was co-financed by the EU under the 11th European Development Fund. It aimed to enable ECCAS coastal states to prosecute cases of piracy and other maritime crimes in accordance with the Yaoundé Code of Conduct and to increase response and cooperation in Zones A and D.

To achieve this, UNODC has built on existing legal reform initiatives, training and advice for prosecutors, judges and law enforcement officials in three ECCAS pilot countries, namely Cameroon, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe. In addition, some new countries were subject to a legal assessment, including Angola, Congo and the DRC.

UNODC also supported legal cooperation, developing memoranda of understanding to improve the quality and quantity of prosecutions. Actions have included: strengthening prosecutorial capacity, improving regional investigative and prosecutorial cooperation, legal reforms where necessary in the Gulf of Guinea countries, and legal support for existing cases on an ad hoc / request basis.

The general objective of the service was to improve the degree of accountability and quality of certain EU-funded actions by providing the FPI Regional Team with follow-up and monitoring products for these actions and feedback on experience at the end of the project.

The specific objective of this contract was to assist the FPI Regional Team in the monitoring of certain projects financed under Article 3 of the IcSP in the Sahel region and the Lake Chad Basin.

The principal objective of this program was to support the DGI (Direction Générale des Impôts) and its plan of modernisation, especially in the field of external and internal communication (as identified in a previous TADAT evaluation), in close cooperation with the principal partners, the DGI communication working group, the Cellule de Communication (CelCom) and the Division des Etudes et Reformes (DER).

The specific purpose within the assistance was the analysis of the current state of the internal and external communication of the DGI, the identification of its shortcomings as well as the determination of all necessary measures to be taken;

Furthermore, based on this analysis, Particip was developing an action plan for the improvement of the internal and external communication. The action plan incorporated findings of a previous TADAT evaluation in Cameroon as well as the results delivered in 2016 by ATAF (African Tax Administration Forum) and ICTD (International Center for Taxation and Development) regarding the communication of the tax authorities in Rwanda;

An important component of the action plan regarding the communication of the DGI was the development of a new graphic charter for DGI website, a new logo and the establishment of basic rules to enhance the coherent visual identity of the DGI;

During the implementation phase of the action plan by the DGI, continuous support and monitoring was provided. After a period of 6 months, the implementation progress was concluded with an overall evaluation.

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

L'évaluation finale externe avait pour but de faire le bilan général de l'exécution du programme et de tirer des conclusions, recommandations et leçons utiles pour l'Union européenne, les autorités nationales et les partenaires de mise en œuvre. Elle était basée sur une approche orientée vers les résultats et la qualité de l'intervention de l'UE.

Elle devait présenter aux services des instruments de politique étrangère de l'Union européenne, aux autres services intéressés et aux partenaires concernés :

• une appréciation externe et globale, en toute indépendance, des résultats de la mesure 2015/38235 en s’attachant plus particulièrement aux résultats des deux volets par rapport aux deux objectifs spécifiques;
• les principaux enseignements de l'intervention, les conclusions et les recommandations afin a) d’alimenter la définition des stratégies dans ce domaine, b) de confirmer la pertinence de mobiliser l'IcSP pour ce type d'action d'une façon générale, et au Cameroun en particulier et c) d'améliorer les éventuelles futures interventions dans ce domaine (IcSP mais pas seulement).

Objectif général

Améliorer les perspectives d'impact, de durabilité et de synergie des interventions mises en œuvre par les organisations de la société civile et les communes camerounaises bénéficiaires de contrats de subventions octroyés par la Délégation de l'UE au Cameroun.

Objectifs particuliers

(i) Renforcer les capacités organisationnelles et institutionnelles des OSC et communes bénéficiaires de subventions gérées par la DUE Cameroun, à travers un appui individualisé, à leur demande et/ou à la demande de la DUE.

(ii) Promouvoir la capitalisation des expériences et des bonnes pratiques à travers la facilitation d'interactions entre les bénéficiaires de subventions et la mise en place de systèmes adaptés de collecte et d'analyse des informations.

(iii) Contribuer au suivi de la feuille de route pour l’engagement avec la société civile au Cameroun

Relevant background

Since early 2007, the Commission, the UN-family and the World Bank have worked together in setting up a platform for cooperation on post-crisis needs assessments for natural disaster (Post-Disaster Needs Assessment, PDNA) and conflict (Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment (RPBA), previously named Post-Conflict Needs Assessment, PCNA) scenarios. This trilateral cooperation was framed and formalised through the signature of a Joint Declaration on “Post-Crisis Assessments and Recovery Planning” in September 2008. The EU/UN/WB platform covers the whole PDNA/RPBA(PCNA) process, including strategic coordination, development of joint methodologies for post-crisis assessments, joint deployment of assessment teams, joint training and joint recovery planning and monitoring.

In line with the 2008 Declaration on Joint Post-crisis Assessments and Recovery Planning, the overall objective of the project is to assist and develop third countries’ in-country capacity to gradually assume a more prominent role in Post-Disaster Needs Assessments and Post-Conflict Needs Assessments (now changed to Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessments, RPBA).

The purpose of this project was:

• to support further development of joint PDNA/RPBA(formerly PCNA) methodologies, tools, training programmes, etc.;
• to support joint PDNA/RPBA(formerly PCNA) missions in-country/in region (in coordinating with EU Heads of Delegations and with the European External Actions Service (EEAS) and European Commission). While such support could cover any relevant technical field (long-term and short-term expertise), it is foreseen that a particular emphasis is put on expertise in mission planning and development of final reports/recovery frameworks.

The two phases of the project contributed to a variety of outputs and results, including:

• Phase 1 (01/01/2013 – 31/07/2015): revision of the PDNA methodology and development of the joint EU/UN/WB PDNA Guide, development of the Disaster Recovery Framework (DRF) Guide, review of the PCNA methodology, development of training and capacity building materials, delivery of information/capacity building sessions, joint PDNA/PCNA training courses for national authorities and regional/international organisations, support to over 15 joint EU/UN/WB PDNA/PCNA missions;
• Phase 2 (10/07/2015 – 09/07/2017): revision of the PCNA methodology and development of the RPBA methodology, development of training and capacity building materials, delivery of information/capacity building sessions, joint PDNA/RPBA training courses for national authorities and regional/international organisations, support to over 10 joint EU/UN/WB PDNA/RPBA missions.