References

In Madagascar, the Roadmap for EU involvement with civil society 2014-2017, which has been updated for the period 2018-2020, developed the common strategic framework for the EU and Member States to improve the impact, predictability and visibility of European actions towards civil society and to implement the three objectives of the 2012 statement.
In this context, the EUD wanted to achieve better coordination of EDF and budget line support in order to boost synergies and complementarity between actions and themes while improving their monitoring and assistance.
The general objective of the mission was to improve the efficiency of the Madagascar EUD's management and monitoring of current and future grants under the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) Thematic Programme and the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR).

The main objective of this project was to assist the government of Bulgaria in fulfilling its obligations according to Article 12 of the Birds Directive.
The project included analyses and studies of species and habitats in the terrestrial part of the country and in coastal areas, in order to ensure up-to-date data and information on reporting under art. 12 of the birds
directive, including the development of various methodologies and pilot monitoring schemes,
their pilot implementation, evaluation of the results and a benefit-cost analysis.

Global objective
The global objective of this assignment was enhancing Chinese CSO's capacities to contribute to governance and development processes in China.
Specific objective(s)

• Improve local CSOs capacity for better project management, including enhanced financial and contractual management capacities and standard procedures.
• Improve local CSOs' understanding of thematic/conceptual content in the field of social sectors, with focus on results and emphasis on the most vulnerable beneficiaries
• All EU funded actions apply rights-based approach and mainstream crosscutting objectives of the EU e.g. gender equality, youth, persons with disability, indigenous peoples, environment and climate change a.o.

The targeted CSOs were local Chinese CSOs, both those that have worked under EU-funded grant contract, but also those that never were contracted but may show interest.

The overall objective of the project was to increase international competitiveness of private sector of Montenegro with particular focus on SMEs.

Technical assessment of concept notes in accordance with guidelines provided by the Contracting Authority, based on the published evaluation grids.

The main objectives of this evaluation are to provide the services of the European Union in charge of the
listed contracts (i.e., DG NEAR and DG INTPA) with:

• an overall independent assessment of the past performance of the interventions Supporting

Human Rights, Activists and Human Rights Monitors in Syria V, Supporting Human Rights and
Human Rights Defenders in Syria IV and Supporting Human Rights and Human Rights Defenders in
Syria III, paying particular attention to the results measured against the expected objectives; and
the reasons underpinning such results;

• key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations in order to improve current and

future Interventions.

Assisted the Government of Serbia to improve efficiency, accountability and transparency of public administration and the quality of service delivery and management of public finances, in line with the General and Specific for the release of fixed and variable tranches as set out in the Annex 1 a of the Financing Agreement for the Sector Reform Contract for Public Administration Reform and providing recommendations to the EU Delegation to the Republic of Serbia concerning the value of the tranches to be disbursed.

The overall objective of the project of this contract was to increase awareness and visibility of the EU-Mozambique cooperation partnership to the wider public, and improve the understanding of EU cooperation policies and partnership with Mozambique.

The evaluation of Danish Sustainable Infrastucture Finance (DSIF) Programme served learning and accountability purposes for both the Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU)/DSIF and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). This evaluation had two objectives. The first objective was to assess DSIF’s relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, development impact and sustainability as well as commercial outcomes through its investments in developing countries. The evaluation applied the updated OECD/DAC evaluation criteria to DSIF investment projects. It involved an analysis of the project portfolio in terms of geographies, sectors and types of projects and funds, and the development of the portfolio composition over time.

This independant evaluation of WFP Country Strategic Plan in Bolivia assessed the strategic positionning, added-value and results of WFP operations in the Country from 2018 to 2021.
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 about a potential scale-up). It is envisioned that the evaluation will inform the design of the new CSP for Bolivia, which is scheduled for Executive Board consideration in November 2022.