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Global objective

The global objective of the "Sustainability Pathways for EU-Brazil Business Ties" project is to strengthen the EU’s bilateral and multilateral engagement with Brazil on external impacts of EU Green Deal policies and regulatory frameworks with emphasis on the deforestation regulation.

Specific objective(s)

• Engage with key stakeholders in Brazil to enhance understanding of the objective and content of the identified regulations, with emphasis on regulation on deforestation and forest degradation;
• Gather key information and provide feedback to EU services in the development of their implementing tasks;
• Understand the social, economic and environmental impact of the identified regulations in Brazil;
• Identify gaps and opportunities in current regulations and practices in Brazil where further work would facilitate meeting EU requirements.

The overall objective of this evaluation is twofold:

• To provide the relevant European Union services and interested stakeholders with an independent comprehensive assessment of the performance of the ‘Implementation of the Action for Peace and Security’ initiative, paying particular attention to its various levels of results measured against its expected objectives, and the reasons underlying these results; and
• Identify the main lessons learned, conclusions and recommendations that can be drawn from this in order to inform decision-makers on how to improve current and future interventions.

The specific objectives of this evaluation are:

• Conduct a desk review and analyse all existing documents and data on the project and its environment
• Conduct a field study to assess the programme's performance, including interviews with key informants and discussions with target groups in the project's areas of intervention
• Organise and facilitate a debriefing meeting in Kinshasa. The preliminary results of the field mission will be presented to the UNDE and other interested parties as appropriate.
• Produce the evaluation report

The global objective of this assignment was to support the EU Delegation in its efforts and activities with respect to EQ recovery support to Türkiye.

Specific objectives:

• to support the Delegation of the European Union to Turkiye (EU Delegation) in assessment of the impacts (damages and losses) caused by the earthquake;
• to support the EU Delegation in assessment of the needs for recovery and rehabilitation of the damages and losses caused by the earthquake;
• to support the EU Delegation in up-to-date situation analysis including assessment of the gaps for recovery and rehabilitation and prioritisation of them in light of the efforts already done/programmed by other national and international bodies;
• to support the EU Delegation for developing projects linked to earthquake recovery and reconstruction (if and when necessary);
• to support the EU Delegation for monitoring use of the EU Solidarity Fund;
• to support the EU Delegation in appraisal of the projects submitted for EU financing (if and when necessary);
• to support the EU Delegation in monitoring of the projects under implementation (if and when necessary);
• to support the EUD in developing DRR models for each sector;
• organise and deliver workshop/training to EUD and/or public authorities representatives on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Earthquake recovery processes.

The purpose of this Final Evaluation was to assess the relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, and impact of YEP implemented by Enabel under the EU-funded Palestinian Youth Empowerment Programme. It aimed to support accountability for results, inform institutional learning, and generate strategic recommendations to guide future youth employment programming in Palestine and comparable fragile contexts.

The evaluation examined project design, implementation, and results across the three interlinked components of YEP:

• the First Employment Facility (FEF);

• demand-driven TVET and work-based learning interventions; and

• entrepreneurship support for vulnerable youth.

It assessed the performance of the project as a whole and the contribution of each component to the project’s overall objectives.

The scope of the evaluation included all YEP activities implemented in the West Bank and those undertaken in Gaza prior to the suspension of operations in October 2023, through secondary sources. Primary data collection was conducted exclusively in the West Bank, while results from Gaza were reviewed based on available documentation and monitoring data. A survey targeting the beneficiaires of the First Employment Facility (R1) and the Work-Based Learning (WBL) was also conducted to collect and integrate their perspective into the final report.

This project aimed to:

• facilitated the process on EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA) implementation, notably by creating flexible on-demand based instrument for addressing key elements of the AA implementation and legal approximation processes such as high-professional advisory to key stakeholders, high-quality legal translations, accurate legal drafting/compliance checks,efficient communication of tehe EUI/AA reforms at national and regional level and improving the professional legal and translation training in higher education institutions; and
• ensured support to the EUI/AA reforms on both national and regional level by means of efficient communication of government authorities of central and regional levels with their target audiences.

The specific objective was to support NEAR A2 in fulfilling its mandate of generating renewed capacity of Commission services to engage with each other and external partners, to develop trust and to rapidly put these new skills to use.

This was made possible through the yearly thematic networks/trainings meetings that were great opportunities for capacity building of EU staff at HQ and Delegations and were further registered in EU Learn.

The regular thematic networks trainings indeed gathered colleagues from headquarters and delegations, in order to present policy updates, share cooperation methodologies, programmes and best practices, discuss and address issues of common interest and thus enable Commission services to learn new tools for achieving effective results.

These trainings addressed policy-related analysis (e.g. gender analysis, do-no-harm and conflict-sensitivity analysis, but not exclusively) and design of assistance. This also included mainstreaming of crosscutting issues such as resilience, digitalization, gender, disabilities, civil society, and more broadly the human rights-based approach, as well as analysis of legislation, regulations and law enforcement, legislative gap analysis, etc.

The purpose of this contract was to strengthen capacities for monitoring, data collection, data management and reporting through establishment of national environmental information system and monitoring network structure via following results:

Result 1: Development of National Environmental Information System (NEIS);

Result 2: Development of National Environmental Monitoring Network (NEMN) and

Result 3: Strengthening the capacity for implementation of NEIS and NEMN.

This independant evaluation of WFP Country Strategic Plan (CSP) in Turkiye assessed the strategic positionning, added-value and results of WFP operations in the Country from 2018 to 2024.

The evaluation served the double purpose of accountability (performance and result assessment) and learning (why certain results occurred or not, lessons and evidence for decision-making). It is envisioned that the evaluation will inform the design of the new CSP for Turkiye, which is scheduled for Executive Board consideration in November 2025.

CSP key sectors and activities included:

• Emergency response and recovery, including cash-based transfers
• School feeding
• Livelihoods activities, including technical and vocational education and training
• Institutional capacity strengthening

Cross-cutting themes included: Gender equality and empowerment of women (GEEW), humanitarian principles and protection, accountability to affected populations (AAP), WFP partnership strategy

The evaluation employed a mixed-method approach that triangulated qualitative and quantitative data from a variety of sources. For this purpose, the evaluation team conducted interviews with different stakeholders including WFP staff at HQ, regional and country level, WFP cooperating partners, donors, UN agencies, government entities as well as focus group discussions with the beneficiaries.

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

• an overall independent assessment of the performance of the Civil Society Fund III, paying particular attention to its different levels of 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 interventions.

In particular, this evaluation served:

• To understand if the programme results covering outputs, outcomes and impacts are achieved in an efficient and effective manner
• To understand how the Civil Society Fund III has contributed to improved capacity of local civil society organizations in Ethiopia to engage in local and national decision making processes
• To understand how the EU should channel support to civil society in future
• To support wider learning across the civil society sector, the EU Delegation to Ethiopia and program stakeholders

The European Union sent an exploratory mission to assess the usefulness, advisability and feasibility of an EU EOM for the upcoming general elections in Guyana.

The purpose of the Exploratory Mission was to collect factual information concerning this election process, in line with the criteria contained in the Commission Communication on Electoral Assistance and Observation [COM(2000)191]. The experts should also in particular:

• Assess the pre-election situation in the light of international standards for democratic elections and national legislation. The assessment will cover: (i) Political situation, (ii) Legal and Electoral framework, (iii) election administration, (iv) voter registration, (v) party and candidate registration, (vi) human rights and fundamental freedoms, (vii) potential for electoral violence, (viii) traditional and online media, as well as social media, (ix) security aspects, (x) logistics and operational matters, (xi) use of electoral ICT and (xii) any other relevant issues relating to the elections and possible deployment of an EU EOM.
• Assess, when relevant, the state of implementation of recommendations of previous EU election missions (both EU EOMs and EEMs).
• Make necessary preliminary logistics related enquiries and provide advice on how to organise the operational component of a possible EU EOM.
• Assess the security situation in the country, in particular in connection with the possible deployment of an EU EOM.
• Advise on the composition, number and length of stay of the Core Team members and long and short-term observers of the EU EOM.
• Draft tentative specifications and Terms of Reference of a possible EU EOM and related estimated costs and budget breakdown.
• Assess the relevance of providing support to domestic observer organisations.
• Acquire updated information on EU election support (both EU and Member States) and other major partners (Canada, Norway and Switzerland) and possible other major actors plans in this field, including in the area of electoral assistance.
• Liaise closely with domestic and international election observation organisations that may be present on the ground regarding the preparation of elections.
• Prepare a number of specific reports as outlined in section 'VI. Output' of these ToR.
• If necessary, participate in the briefing of the EU EOM Core Team should the deployment of an EU EOM be decided.