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The Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development is being implemented by all countries since January 2016. Over the next 15 years, it will shape numerous policy fields - far beyond development cooperation. The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is currently aligning its development policy with the implementation of the Agenda 2030. This is based on three pillars: the implementation of the Agenda in Germany, the support of the partner countries of the German Development Cooperation, and the implementation on the international level. The sectoral project (SV) Agenda 2030 advises the BMZ on sustainable development on all three pillars.

Due to the dynamics, the thematic scope and the complexity of the Agenda 2030, the SV Agenda 2030 demands through this assignment the support by profound expertise on various topics.

In this context, the contractor supported the content and conceptual work of the SV Agenda 2030 with input. The scientific and conceptual support provided by the contractor was intended to synthesize existing knowledge and, by means of correspondingly professional preparatory work, deepen the content of the consultancy, accelerate the handling of the requests, and enable promt reaction to developments in the desired quality. The contractor's broad professional profile was to ensure the availability of scientific expertise on various topics; thus, enabling technically adequate advisory services for BMZ. Furthermore, the SV was enabled to keep an overview of existing reforms and adaptation processes and to derive recommendations for German development cooperation.

Within the scope of the scientific support, the contractor worked, on request, together with the SV Agenda 2030 on various topics and provided specific services. A pool of 3 specialists was provided.

The overall objective of this contract is as follows:

To assist the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in undertaking dialogue with riparian neighbours and address issues related to transboundary waters in all its relevant watersheds to promote peaceful regional cooperation and development; and to ensure that there is a training program in place at the Institute of Diplomacy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

The specific objectives of the contract are as follows:

OS 1: To provide on-going assistance and support to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, specifically the Directorate General of Border Affairs, Transboundary Waters and Security Cooperation, in matter related to transboundary waters.

OS 2: To build sustainable capacity within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to address transboundary waters through the creation of a training course on international water law and transboundary waters which will be maintained and delivered by the Institute of Diplomacy. This includes conducting a Training of Trainers and overseeing the delivery of at least one training session. The training course should be made available to persons from other ministries, in particular Ministry of Energy and Water, and Ministry of Finance, amongst others.

OS 3: Develop resource data base for transboundary waters including treaties, MOUs, academic literature, and case studies which are pertinent to Afghanistan’s situation.

The required services aimed at assisting associations defending the rights of women, children, vulnerable individuals, terror victims, people with disabilities and road accident victims to eliminate factual and juridical barriers they may encounter, enforcing the rights of their litigant members.

The specific objectives were to:

• Support the protection of victims of violence in order for them to make use of the rights stipulated in the Constitution.
• Promote the enforcement of legal provisions defending the rights of victims of violence.
• Draw the attention of prosecutors and lawyers to the need to build on the international conventions ratified by Algeria in their pleadings, according to article 58 of the Code of Civil and Administrative Procedure (law dated 25 February 2008), as well as the rules of Algerian positive law for victim protection on which they can base the drafting of their petition in order for the judges to make judgments in favour of victims of violence.

The overall objective of this consultation is to provide the Permanent Secretariat of the PNDES (SP/PNDES) and the various actors involved with an action plan aimed at strengthening monitoring and evaluation for the PNDES. This action plan should ensure that actions are defined to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and that such actions allow for a strengthening of the links between policy monitoring and the budgetary process.

In concrete terms, and based upon the draft action plan drawn up by the SP/PNDES, this consultation will involve:

• making a global diagnosis of the monitoring and evaluation mechanism;
• assessing the operational capacities of those involved in the mechanism;
• identifying the operational capacity building needs of the mechanism’ s stakeholders;
• proposing, in consultation with the mechanism’ stakeholders, of activities to strengthen the implementation of the PNDES;
• proposing a capacity building programme for the mechanism’ stakeholders;
• providing the SP/PNDES with a coherent action plan;
• estimating the cost of the action plan, defining the sequencing of activities and identifying the responsible structures;
• defining common instruments for the financing of this action plan by the Technical and Financial Partners (PTFs) in Burkina Faso;
• defining a communication plan for the different audiences: authorities, general public, PTFs, potential investors, civil society;
• writing the different project documents (DAO) for future EU support to the implementation of the PNDES.

Results to be achieved by the contractor:

• Result 1: The action plan is defined. Its cost is estimated and the timetable for its implementation is available
• Outcome 2: The instruments for financing the action plan by the PTFs are identified. Operational requirements are identified
• Output 3: The communication plan of the PNDES is defined
• Outcome 4: A training plan for stakeholders (including SP/PNDES, DGESS, DGESS, DGEP, INSD) is defined
• Outcome 5: Project documents for future EU support are available

The purpose of this evaluation was to provide an assessment and evidence on the scope and performance of the implemented and on-going EU support to CT/PVE provided by the IfS and the IcSP from 2007 to 2016. It aimed at providing recommendations for the improvement of the design and the implementation of EU support to CT/PVE in line with:

a) the principles laid down in the following key EU policy documents:

• A Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy – Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe (2016);
• European Union Counter-Terrorism Strategy (2005);
• European Union Strategy for Combating Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terrorism (2014);
• Preventing Radicalisation to Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Strengthening the EU’s Response (2014)
• Communication from the European Commission of the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Supporting the Prevention of Radicalisation Leading to Violent Extremism (2016).

b) the principles laid down in the following key international policy documents :

• The UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (2016);
• The UN Secretary General’s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism (2016);
• GCTF Ankara Memorandum on Good Practices for a Multi-Sectoral Approach to Countering Violent Extremism (2013);
• The UN Sustainable Development Goals (2016)

The evaluation provided the European Commission, the European External Action Service, and other relevant stakeholders with:

• an independent assessment of the overall IfS/IcSP support to CT and to PVE (2007-2016), paying particularly attention to the results achieved against its objectives;
• key lessons and recommendations to FPI.2 in order to improve current and future support for CT and PVE financed under the IcSP;
• recommendations to the European Commission on the best way to approach and improve its support to CT and to PVE both in terms of the use of policy dialogue and financial assistance.

The analysis, lessons and recommendations were explicitly distinguished (separated when necessary) given the differences of objectives, approaches and activities relating, on one hand, to counter terrorism and, on another hand, to the prevention of violent extremism.

The results of the evaluation was used to:

• demonstrate whether already on-going/planned IcSP interventions in the area of CT and PVE have taken on board the past lessons learned;
• feed into the overall evaluation and impact assessment of the IcSP;

Geographical coverage:

The evaluation covered all beneficiary countries in which the IfS/IcSP provided/provides support to CT/PVE.

The “Offline” CBR mechanism, managed by UNDP provided an option to pay competitive salaries to up to 191 senior civilian officials requested for the MOIA, following established recruitment and selection guidelines.

Specific objectives of the HR audit were: to identify key challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for strengthening the management, practices, and processes of recruiting qualified civilians in the MOIA.

As an HR Firm, Particip did an “end to end” in depth audit of the “Offline” Capacity Building for Results (CBR) Human Resource planning, recruitment, and management process of the (up to 191) MOIA Civilian appointments.

Technical assistance to monitor implementation of the programme to support the implementation of the government equality plan in Morocco.

The services will ensure both regular monitoring of the programme's implementation and examination of the conditions regarding disbursement of the different budget support tranches.

The contract will involve several monitoring assignments during implementation of the programme, to be carried out by 3 experts, 1 in the fields of (i) policies and strategies for gender equality, (ii) legal and judicial frameworks for women's rights and (iii) macroeconomics and gender-based budgeting.

The main objectives of this evaluation were to provide the relevant services of the European Union, the interested stakeholders, and the wider public with:

• An overall independent assessment of the past performance of the Governance programme, paying particular attention to its results measured against its objectives;
• Key lessons and recommendations in order to improve and future Actions.

In particular, this final evaluation will serve to:

(1) Make an assessment of the programme, its design, implementation and results, and to

(2) Determine the relevance and fulfilment of objectives, developmental efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability.

The main users of this evaluation will be the EU Delegation and the National Authorising Officer (NAO).

The "Annual Report on the implementation of the European Union's instruments for financing external actions" is first and foremost a legal obligation for the European Commission to report to the European Council and to the European Parliament on development and external assistance and their implementation.

The global objective for this assignment was to produce the "Annual Report 2017 on the implementation of the European Union's instruments for financing external actions in 2016” as well as its accompanying Staff Working Document.

The assignment included the editing of the Staff Working Document, the drafting, layout and design of the Annual Report, as well as the production of an animated presentation of the Report's results. The Report was translated into all official EU languages.

The evaluation assessed the EU’s cooperation strategy in Côte d’Ivoire as well as its implementation between 2007 and 2015. Both levels – strategy and implementation – were evaluated. The main objectives of the evaluation were:

• to provide a global and independent assessment of the past and current EU cooperation and to put it into perspective with the general objectives and political priorities of the EU with regards to the country, not only for EU services but also for member states and for a broader public in general;
• to draw the main conclusions and to formulate recommendations in view of (i) improving current decisions and (ii) providing better information for future decision-making with regards to the cooperation strategy;
• produce a document that will serve as base for the upcoming joint programming in 2016 between EU, France, Germany and Spain, and which will answer to the challenges of such an effort.

The scope of the evaluation covered:

• All agreements, the cooperation framework and other official commitments of both EU and Ivory Coast, including the objectives and priorities of EEAS with regard to EU-Côte d’Ivoire relations.
• The following financial instruments: envelopes of the European Development Fund (EDF), of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), of the Instrument for Stability (IfS) and of thematic programmes financed through Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI).
• The coherence between interventions managed by DG DEVCO-EuropeAid and those managed by DG ECHO, the European Investment Bank EIB or other EU interventions and policies in the field of development cooperation which affect Côte d’Ivoire. A particular attention will be laid on the interim economic partnership agreements (EPA) with Côte d’Ivoire for the fisheries sector.

The report is available at:

https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/external-strategic-evaluation-eus-cooperation-republic-cote-divoire-2007-2015_en