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The overall objective of the project is to support the Government of Moldova to implement its reform Agenda and in particular to assist the government in developing the capacities required for the implementation of the Association Agreement (AA), including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), as well as to ensure the necessary follow-up for the post Visa Liberalisation stage.

The project supported the deployment of EU High Level Advisers in the Republic of Moldova.

The High Level Advisors, selected by the European Commission, assisted the ministries and State agencies involved in the implementation of EU – Moldova agreements.

The activities making up this project included the contracting of the designated EU High Level Advisers, providing them with logistical support (such as travel, installation, conference organisation) and with local office support (project manager, assistants, interpreters, translators).

The locally-based project coordinator from the Contractor's team was responsible for organising events, logistics, visibility, coordination, reporting, steering committees and liaison with the EU Delegation

The overall objective of the assignment was raising the awareness of young people worldwide about the activities of the EU on development and cooperation and especially about the positive impact they have on changing people’s lives for the better.

The specific objective was achieving this by creating enhanced international, regional and national media exposure by having a fresh different perspective on the EU-funded projects. This new perspective was provided by a blogging competition and a reporting trip of 4 young people on 3 continents (Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America and Caribbean).

Communicating directly from the field did not only provide for a closer, more concrete understanding of the EU activities and people’s needs and achievements but also provided DEVCO with new, updated, good quality material that can be used for further communication purposes at EU level as well as at regional and national level in the third countries.

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 overall objective of this communication programme is to communicate the EU's policy objectives in Turkey. The purposes of this contract are as follows:

• Promote the EU and its values – in particular civil and political rights - among the Turkish population with a particular focus on identified target audiences, notably young people (under the heading ‘Our Europe, Our Future’), and underline the practical benefits of adopting these values for the Turkish citizens.
• Disseminate information about what the EU is concretely doing for Turkish citizens through its financing instruments to key partners and policy-makers and enhance the visibility of EU-funded projects. This information will include facts and figures about EU funded projects as well as the impact and effect of these projects.=Promote EU interests in Turkey, whether of an economic nature or aiming at a better understanding of EU policy positions.
• Dispel myths and misconceptions related to the EU and EU-Turkey relations and the accession process.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.