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This evaluation took place in a context of a recent surge in violent conflicts and a renewed momentum on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding (CPPB) both at the EU and global level. Its purpose was to:

• provide the relevant EU Institutions and the wider public with an overall independent assessment of the EU support to CPPB focusing on the period 2013-2017; and
• identify key lessons, instil good practices, and produce recommendations to feed into ongoing and future approaches to EU’s engagement in the field of CPPB.

In particular, the evaluation will feed into the EU implementation of the Integrated Approach to Conflict and Crises and nurture future EU support to CPPB strategies and interventions.

The scope of the evaluation included:

• all relevant actions (including spending and non-spending activities) and all countries/regions which fall under the responsibility of DG DEVCO and DG NEAR (neighbourhood region only); and
• the work/engagement of EEAS related to them.

In terms of temporal scope, the evaluation focused on the period 2013-2018, but also took the period 2011-2012 into consideration in order to assess the evolution of EU support to CPPB.

Through the course of the evaluation, the evaluation team conducted 12 case studies (focusing on countries, regions and instruments) which were subject to an in-depth analysis, including eight field visits. Two surveys – one covering EU services in Brussels, the other covering EU Delegations/Offices worldwide – were also part of the data collection and analysis process. Findings from all evaluation activities were synthesized into a final report.

The final report is available online: https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/external-evaluation-eus-support-conflict-prevention-and-peacebuilding-2013-2018_en

The purpose of the Election Expert Mission (EEM) was to collect and analyse factual information, assess and report on the electoral process against international commitments, standards and good practice for democratic elections in line with the criteria contained in the Commission Communication on Electoral Assistance and Observation [COM(2000)191]. The experts also formulated recommendations to improve future electoral processes and assess, when relevant, the state of implementation of recommendations made by previous electoral missions.

The overall objective of this technical assistance project is to strengthen the professional media sector in Tunisia and to guarantee the dissemination of independent and pluralistic information guaranteeing freedom of expression.

Results to be achieved are, among others:

• Governments are strengthened in defining and exercising their roles and responsibilities in the development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and monitoring of public media policies.
• Public media (radio, television and news agency Tunis Afrique-TAP) are strengthened in their vision and strategic capacities and have initiated internal structural reform.
• The economic viability of the media is analyzed and reviewed for their plurality and independence.
• Concertation structures ensure the participation of media professionals, civil society organizations, academics and citizens in the definition of public media policies.
• Ethics and editorial strategy are incorporated into the mainstream media.
• Media managers are strengthened in the management and direction of media companies.
• Media regulation and monitoring is structured and implemented by trained teams.
• Access to information for public institutions is reinforced by public communicators.
• The image of women in Tunisian society is valued and reinforced in the media.
• Young people are encouraged and strengthened by the experience and sense of leadership.
• School and out-of-school education for media understanding is strengthened.
• The social partners and civil society are strengthened in their decisions.
• The media training activity is decentralized and rooted at the regional level.
• Local deployment of regional radios, television and the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) national news agency is consolidated.
• Local media capacities are strengthened and their relations with local civil society strengthened.
• Media professionals, civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens of the region are sensitized to issues of freedom of expression and the media.

Systematic and timely evaluation of its programmes and activities is an established priority of the European Commission. The focus of evaluations is on the assessment of achievements, the quality and the results of Actions in the context of an evolving cooperation policy with an increasing emphasis on result-oriented approaches and the contribution towards EU foreign policy objectives and the implementation of the SDGs. From this perspective, evaluations should look for evidence of why, whether or how these results are linked to the EU intervention and seek to identify the factors driving or hindering progress. Evaluations should provide an understanding of the cause and effect links between: inputs and activities, and outputs, outcomes and impacts. Evaluations should serve accountability, decision making, learning and management purposes.

The main objectives of this evaluation are to provide the relevant services of the European Union and the interested stakeholders with:

• an overall independent assessment of the past performance of the SPIPA project, paying particular attention to its intermediate results measured against its expected objectives; and the reasons underpinning such results;
• key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations in order to improve current and future Actions.

The global objective of this assignment was to support civil society in protection and promotion of democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms worldwide.

The specific objective of this assignment was to provide technical support to the European Commission for the evaluation and selection of the proposals received under the 2019 EIDHR global call for proposals.

The overall objective was to evaluate the Results-Based Financing (RBF) for Low Carbon Energy Access Facility within the Energising Development (EnDev) Programme. The specific purposes of this evaluation were (i) to assess the performance of the RBF Facility over the period 2012-2020 against key OECD/DAC evaluation criteria, (ii) to understand and disseminate what had worked in which circumstances and why, and (iii) to derive lessons learned and recommendations for future programmes in RBF, energy access support through private sector development, and climate finance more broadly.

EnDev piloted an RBF scheme offering incentive payments to private sector market actors in the low-carbon off-grid energy sector in developing countries. Payments were made against pre-specified results achieved in delivery and sustainable operation of modern energy technologies and services.The aim of the RBF Facility within the global EnDev programme was to (i) increase access to modern energy services in developing countries (including vulnerable groups) (ii) through the use of decentralised renewable energy products and services, (iii) delivered as market-based approaches through private sector actors.

The scope of the evaluation encompassed 17 different RBF projects within the global EnDev programme. The evaluation focused on market changes and private sectors responses – such as market efficiency, business development, distribution strategies and technology adoption –, but also analysed the consumer perspective and the interaction with sector policies and regulation by national governments.

Outputs included:

• Inception Report.
• Baseline Report (review of existing baseline studies).
• Internal Process Review.
• A Mid-term Evaluation, including a set of project evaluations and a portfolio review.
• Deep impact studies of one selected country project in Tanzania.
• A cross-portfolio survey targeting RBF participants.
• Final Evaluation, including a set of project evaluations and a portfolio review.
• Concept notes for the various evaluation products.
• Networking conferences with individual projects to foster knowledge-sharing and learning experiences based on the above products and between projects.

Nine countries were targeted for field and remote evaluation: Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Kenya, Peru, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam.

The evaluation will assess the Action using the five standard DAC evaluation criteria, namely: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact. In addition, the evaluation will assess two EU specific evaluation criteria:

• the EU added value (the extent to which the Action adds benefits to what would have resulted from Member States' interventions only);
• the coherence of the Action itself, with the EU strategy in the Pacific and with other EU policies and Member State Actions.

And in addition:

• The matching of the needs of national and local partners;
• The materialisation of the expected results (or perhaps only some of them) and their facilitating and contrasting factors;
• The performance of the management and its capacity to adapt to changing conditions;
• The governing mechanisms of the Action;
• The contribution to SDGs (4,5,13).

The overall objective was to contribute to the reduction of risks for the population and to interventions funded by the European Union for capacity building as well as the establishment of a basis for the sustainability of essential public services in the Goma Volcano Observatory.

Objective 1: Technically strengthen the GVO to refine the monitoring and analysis of risks related to the exceptional activity of the Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira volcanoes by capitalizing on project support and previous support financed by European cooperation.

Objective 2: To work towards the institutional and scientific strengthening of the GVO through targeted support to the training programme and the promotion of study visits and scientific exchanges.

Objective 3: Strengthen the sustainability of essential services of the GVO from the development of partnerships and other strategies.

The specific objective of the assignment was to contribute to the implementation of the Improvement Plan by the Inter-Ministerial Technical Task Team for Violence Against Women and Children through the mapping of existing services offered by all government departments to women and children victims of violence.

As a result a comprehensive package of services responsive to the needs of women and children in all their diversity were defined and positioned to inform, in particular, the ways in which government’s response to victims of violence can be improved.

The overall objective of the assignment was to allow the EU, its Member States and broader public to assess the performance and impact of their collective AfT.

The specific objective of the assignment was to prepare the EU AfT Progress Report 2020 and its associated deliverables.