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The European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) aims to develop closer relations between the EU and its neighbouring countries (6 in Eastern Europe and 10 in North Africa and the Middle East). To that end, the ENI evaluation was designed to assess whether ENI was fit for purpose to deliver EU resources towards EU’s external policy, both at the start of the planning period (2014) and currently, and considered the place of ENI –its complementarities and synergies – within the wider set of external financing instruments (EFIs). Together with other independent evaluations of each EFI, the ENI evaluation will feed into the Mid Term Review Report of the EFIs required by the Common Implementing Regulation (CIR) by end December 2017.

The specific objectives of the ENI evaluation were to 1) provide the relevant external relations services of the European Union and the wider public with an independent assessment of the ENI instrument, including complementarities/synergies between ENI and the other EFIs; and 2) to inform the future programming and implementation of the current EFIs, as well as the next generation of the EFIs.

The evaluation used a mixed methods approach blending quantitative and qualitative methods, with a focus on the latter. The main analytical tools consisted of rigorous assessment of documentation (policy documents, evaluations, etc.), statistical information and consultation of stakeholders (via interviews, group consultations, a telephone survey focusing on EU Delegations and the Open Public Consultation- OPC; key issues are additionally addressed by a joint-EFI survey managed by the chapeau contract). Country case studies were prepared for Egypt, Georgia, Lebanon, Tunisia and Ukraine. With the exception of Lebanon, these case studies were backed by short country visits.

The report is available at:

https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/sites/near/files/final_report_eni_evaluation.zip

The project “Enhancement of Procurement Capacity of Local Government Authorities in Tanzania” contributed to ensuring systems and structures of governance to uphold the rule of law which are democratic, effective, accountable, predictable, transparent, inclusive and corruption free at all levels.

The evaluation provided answered to "how" and "why" questions and was essential for assessing the value of the achieved results and of the implementation process of the whole intervention.

The evaluation served the following functions:

• To support steering. On the basis of in-depth analyses, the review offered useful recommendations that are based on data (evidence-based).
• To contribute to learning. By analysing the development process, the review allowed to explain what works, what does not work and why, and to thus draw lessons for other interventions or for the elaboration of new policies, strategies and programmes.
• Accountability to the donor, partner and other internal actors by supplying an external assessment of the progress made and the results achieved.

The Evaluation of the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II) assessed whether IPA II is fit for purpose to deliver EU resources towards EU's external policy, both at start of the planning period (2014) and at the time of the evaluation (2017), and considered the place of IPA II – its complementarities and synergies – within the wider set of external financing instruments.

The objective of the IPA II evaluation was: 1) to provide the relevant external relations services of the European Union and the wider public with an independent assessment of the IPA II instrument, including complementarities/synergies between IPA II and the other EFIs; and 2) to inform the future programming and implementation of the current EFIs, as well as the next generation of the EFIs.

The evaluation was evidence-based using a non-experimental mixed methods approach combining quantitative and, more importantly, qualitative data and was guided by Evaluation Questions (EQ) covering EU evaluation criteria (relevance; effectiveness, impact and sustainability; efficiency; added value; coherence, consistency, complementarity and synergies; leverage).

The main analytical tools consisted of a rigorous assessment of documentation, analysis of statistics and quantitative data and a consultation of stakeholders (via interviews, group discussions, the online-survey focusing on EU Delegations and the Open Public Consultation).

The report is available at:

https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/sites/near/files/final_report_ipa_ii_evaluation.zip

The overall objective was to promote European higher education to students and academic staff in Asia and Central Asia, and to promote cooperation activities between European and third country higher education institutions.

The result achieved was the organisation of at least five higher education fairs in Central Asia and Asia in the period 2014 to 2016.

We provided all related and necessary support, ranging from the identification (design of the fairs: themes, venue, timing, participants, visibility/communication strategy, budget), implementation (logistic), follow-up (reference documents, quality monitoring, dissemination of results).

The Annual Report is a legal obligation for the European Commission to report to the European Council and the European Parliament on development and external assistance and their implementation. Furthermore, it also serves as a public information tool.

Global objective:

• Production of the “Annual Report 2016 on the implementation of the

European Union's instruments for financing external actions in 2015

• Production of the accompanying Staff Working Document
• Production of a Factsheet with infographics

L'objectif général était de contribuer à ce que le projet d'appui à la gestion des frontières atteigne ses résultats escomptés et participe à la réalisation des objectifs qu'il poursuit.

L'objectif spécifique était de fournir aux parties prenantes sénégalaises et européennes une évaluation indépendante et motivée sur la pertinence et la performance du projet à mi-parcours.

General objective: To analyze the political, economic and institutional context in Honduras and the capacities of civil society organizations, private companies and other key players in the fight against corruption. This serves in order to establish the best mode and roadmap for implementing the components of stakeholders by identifying the key partners for the implementation process and preparing supporting documents to support the launch of the project.

Specific objectives (OE):

OE1: To analyse the political, economic and institutional context in Honduras in relation to corruption and to identify major factors and environmental influences, which need to be addressed to obtain long-term results in terms of political culture and the perception of corruption (theory of change).

SO2: To map and establish a typology of institutional civil society actors that are able to contribute to strengthening the democratic and inclusive institutional development of political parties.

OE3: Map and establish a typology of institutional civil society actors that are able to contribute to the strengthening of the understanding of democratic values, the importance of an ethical, inclusive and responsible political culture, with competence in the development of multi-media civic education programs - media aimed especially at the media and youth, future leaders and voters in Honduras

The project supported the environmental policy and law reform which the government of the Republic of Armenia initiated in recent years with the cooperation of the EU, other international donors such as UNDP and UNEP, and also bilateral projects financed by the German BMUB.

The overall goal of the assignment was to support the Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection (MNP) in the further development of climate-relevant environmental legislation (climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation), in particular the implementation of necessary steps with highest priority:

• The finalization of the draft law on environmental policy and;
• The adaptation of the sectoral environmental legislation.

The assignment lead to the following results:

• The finalised draftlaw on environmental policy was prepared.
• Based on review of relevant sectoral environmental legislation including legislation on: air, water, waste, EIA, (environmental) supervision, levies, and others, a series of draft amendments to relevant sectoral legislation necessary to bring relevant sectoral legislation in line with the Draft Law on Environmental Policy were developed. This output includes emission limit values (ELV) for air and waste water as well as EIA criteria by components.
• A Final draft legislation package for submission to law-making procedures was prepared following consultations with all stakeholders, revisions and modifications according to comments and proposals received in the consultation processes, including:
  • the draft Law on Environmental Policy,
  • the draft amendments to sectoral environmental legislation,
  • explanatory memoranda, as required for the respective law-making procedures.
• Relevant target groups/ stakeholders were involved, informed and trained throughout the project through adequate information and consultations.
• A strategy and plan for follow-up activities to complement the environmental law reform were prepared.

The project provided a change management expert who, under the supervision of the Reform Task Team (RTT), is entrusted with conducting a comprehensive re-orientation and re-structuring of the National Authorising Officer's Support Unit (NAO SU) with a final goal of significant and measurable improvement and optimization of the NAO SU.

Specifically, the change management expert developed a comprehensive reorientation plan for the NAO SU on the basis of a situation analysis and previous recommendations received through a mid-term review (MTR) and assisted the various stakeholders in implementing the plan. The ultimate goal was that the Change Management Process results in more effective governance and efficient performance of the NAO SU.

Thorough systematisation of the EU bilateral support provided to the Colombian Directorate for the Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines (DAICMA).The project highlighted the results achieved, lessons learned, best practices resulting from the EU support as well as identify remaining gaps.