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The global objective of the Programme was to deepen and strengthen cooperation and contribute to the sustainable social and economic development of the Wider Caribbean Region.

The specific objective was to design a framework for structured and continuous dialogue to strengthen political, economic and technical cooperation between the Caribbean Forum of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM), the FCORs and OCTs.

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to regional integration by ensuring more effective, coherent, coordinated and adaptive biodiversity use management in line with international and regional agreements and priorities for sustainable development and to improve livelihood.

Specific objective: To develop and strengthen national and regional capacity to manage the direct and indirect use of coastal, marine and island-specific ecosystems towards the sustainable conservation of biodiversity.

The global objective of this Contract was to ensure implementation of the commitments made by Georgia in the FA, and in particular towards consolidation of independence, professionalism, impartiality and efficiency of the judiciary, access to justice and right to fair trial, efficiency and fairness of the criminal justice system, and improvement of private and administrative law systems.

The specific objective of this Contract was to assess the fulfilment of the general and specific conditions, criteria and verification indicators for purposes of disbursements of tranches under the 3rd Budget Support Programme (BSP) in line with the FA.

In Malawi, one of the main priorities within the second Education Sector Implementation Plan (ESIP II) is aiming to significantly reduce repetition through capping the repetition rate at 10%. In 2011, a circular on repetition by MoEST was produced.

The overall objective of this project was to review and update Repetition Policy, develop Policy guidelines and corresponding implementation plan to increase learner retention and promotion.

Policy guidelines developed describe strategies and concrete measures to implement the policy. These strategies address the quality of education in general, but also focus on direct measures to implement the policy. These included but were not limited to measures regarding:

- the assessment of learners and decision making on promotion and repetition

- other related policies and strategies, particularly regarding learner and teacher attendance

- preventive and remedial programmes

- incentive schemes for school management and teachers

- supervision and support to districts and schools

The implementation plan developed lays out activities, timelines and responsibilities in relation to the identified strategies captured in the policy guidelines. Additionally, it included a monitoring framework to ensure the availability of information to track the progress of the implementation and its impact.

The assignment was part and parcel of a broader evaluation of the Bank’s Program Based operations (PBOs) for the period 2012-17 led by IDEV. Consultancy input consisted of four tasks:

• a portfolio-wide project review, analysing documentation associated with each operation;
• a focused institutional comparison with two comparator institutions;
• an online survey collecting the views of officials from partner governments and Bank staff engaged in PBOs;
• Cluster evaluation on energy, including the following five country case studies: Angola, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Nigeria and Tanzania.

The objectives of the wider evaluation were to provide credible evidence regarding how the Bank is programming, designing and managing its PBOs as well as their performance. In addition, it aimed to identify lessons and factors that have hindered or enabled good results based on solid evidence.

The report is available at:

http://idev.afdb.org/en/document/independent-evaluation-afdbs-program-based-operations-2012-2017

The overall objective of the future governance programme was to contribute to poverty reduction, economic growth and good governance in Laos.

The specific objective of this assignment was to support the EU and the Government of Lao PDR in the identification and formulation of a range of possible interventions that can be developed into a governance programme, which includes both public administration and aspects of economic governance, namely public financial management.

The proposed interventions will improve, inter alia, transparency and accountability of PFM, promote fair and transparent domestic tax systems, improve domestic revenue mobilisation and procurement, increase the capacity and control of oversight bodies, strengthen the capacity of public administration in service delivery at national, provincial and local level while accompanying the institutional framework and the decentralisation process.

The overall objective of this study was to evaluate the Support Program for the Rural Transport Sub-Sector, Phase 2 (Programme d’Appui au Sous-secteur de Transport Rural, phase 2 - PASTR II), which consisted of three components:

• Improvement of accessibility through the maintenance and development of rural transport infrastructures;
• Improving mobility in rural areas through the implementation of public transport projects using intermediate means of transport;
• Capacity building of actors for the regulation, development, management and maintenance / of rural transport infrastructure.

The evaluation adopted a mixed methods approach to assess the overall implementation of the PASTR II, its relevance and effectiveness, as well as its viability and impact.

From a quantitative point of view, the propensity score matching method was chosen to assess the impact of PASTR II on the socio-economic conditions of the beneficiaries. For this purpose, a household survey was conducted in 40 districts of Benin (20 beneficiaries and 20 non-beneficiaries of the PASTR II).

On the qualitative side, the team conducted thematic group discussions with beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries as well as interviews with the local public administration and the general population

The objectives of the evaluation were to:

• support the decision-making, both at EU strategic (planning) level, and at the level of the design of the action programmes /interventions;
• feed into the reflection on the revision of future development policies in view of the recent adoption of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda;
• demonstrate whether already on-going/planned IPA (I) II, ENPI/ENI, DCI and EDF action programmes/interventions in the area of social protection have taken on board the latest lessons learnt from the previous programming period;
• provide recommendations on the best way to approach and improve its support to the development of social protection systems, in partner countries both in terms of the use of policy dialogue and financial assistance;
• contribute to the preparation and adjustment of action programmes, namely for IPA II, ENI, DCI and EDF assistance to the extent possible;
• feed in the Mid-term Review of financial instruments;
• feed in Mid-term Reviews of country/region multi-annual indicative programmes.

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 focused on EU support (policy dialogue and financial assistance) provided for the development of social protection systems in partner countries, more specifically on the social insurance and social assistance measures to address the following risks and needs: unemployment, parental responsibilities, sickness and healthcare, work accidents/employment injuries disability, loss of a spouse or parent, old age, housing and social exclusion.

The evaluation covered:

• IPA I beneficiary countries;
• ENPI partner countries;
• Countries covered by DCI and EDF.

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 an inventory;
• 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 (Bosnia and Herzegovina, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia*, Malawi, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine*) and drafting of country reports;
• A Synthesis Phase, producing a final report and dissemination of results to concerned stakeholders.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA) commissions regularly meta-evaluations in order to synthesise the findings, explore the issues and assess the reliability of the decentralised evaluations.

The assessment of the evaluation reports includes all decentralised evaluation reports conducted between January 2015 and June 2017. The meta-evaluation consists of two parts:

• Meta-evaluation of the decentralised evaluation reports and their corresponding terms of references.
• Meta-analysis of reliable evaluation findings on Finland's development cooperation verified against the OECD-DAC evaluation criteria demonstrating how Finnish development policy goals have been achieved based on findings in different reports. The meta-analysis also sums up the major issues evident in current development cooperation emerging from the decentralised evaluation reports. The synthesis will conclude what are the main reasons for success or challenges in development co-operation projects and programs and what are the lessons learned based on the findings from evaluation reports.

The purpose of the meta-evaluation is twofold: first, the meta-evaluation helps the MFA to improve the evaluation reports, the evaluation management practices and the overall evaluation capacity development. It also provides an overall picture of the current evaluation portfolio which helps the MFA to identify possible gaps. Second, the meta-analysis is expected to aggregate data and bring forward issues and lessons learned emerging from the evaluation reports as well as give recommendations which will help the MFA to improve the development cooperation. The meta-analysis will sum up what kind of strengths and challenges regarding Finnish development cooperation are identified in different evaluation reports.

Final report available here: https://um.fi/documents/384998/385866/meta_evaluation_report_2018

• Ensure maximum visibility of EU cooperation activities in Sierra Leone.
• Raise awareness of EU work on specific sectors through high media impact activities.