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The purpose of the Experts Mission was to collect factual information concerning the electoral process, in line with the criteria contained in the Commission Communication on Electoral Assistance and Observation [COM(2000)191]. Moreover, the experts produced strategic analysis and reporting on the ongoing electoral processes and provided inputs for electoral reform as well as confidence-enhancing measures, during and after the elections.

The objectives of the missions were to:

• Assess all aspects of the electoral process in light of international and regional commitments and relevant national legislation of Guinea Bissau; evaluate openness, comprehensiveness and adherence to the rules of the different phases of the process, including voting, counting and possibly treatment of complaints and appeals; and make recommendations in the area of electoral reform.
• Assess the implementation and continuous relevance of previous EU (and non-EU) election related missions’ recommendations and propose targeted recommendations to relevant authorities and stakeholders in Guinea Bissau in order to improve the election framework.
• Provide analysis to help identify needs and the potential for additional bilateral or EU electoral support and analyse how ongoing projects are addressing recommendations of past EU EOMs.
• Prepare a draft Final Mission Report, in consultation with representatives of EC/EEAS services presenting an overview of the pre-election situation.
• Following the final de-briefing with EC/EEAS services in Brussels incorporate additional comments into the draft report and provide Commission and EEAS services with a concise Final Report.

This project was part of the programme "Institutional Strengthening of AMEXCID" which is a Mexican development agency. The programme aimed at launching innovative joint initiatives to implement global agendas and to improve the instruments and governance structures in AMEXCID.

In the framework of this contract, services in two major areas were provided:

1) Impact monitoring

• Recording the direct effects of the individual measures (outcome - specific) and their aggregation with regard to overall achievement indicators (outcome - program objective level);
• Recording the indirect impact of the program indicators and individual measures for the 2030 Agenda in Mexico, as well as GIZ's sector-specific, aggregated governance indicators.

2) Impact evaluation: The contribution of the project to the institutional anchoring of Mexican cooperation policy

• Evaluation of the contribution of the project to the cooperation policy AMEXCIDs on global topics and agendas and the impact on German-Mexican cooperation in global topics and agendas;
• Evaluation of the contribution of the project to the implementation of the cooperation policy (PROCID: Programa de Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo) within Mexico and at international level;
• Evaluation of the strategic approach of GIZ to promote a development agency with recommendations for similar projects and approaches.

The Rural Village Water Resources Management Project (RVWRMP) is supported by the Government of Nepal (GoN), the European Union (EU) and the Government of Finland (GoF). The core interventions of RVWRMP III provides the population of Sudur Paschim and Karnali Provinces access to water supply, energy, improved food security and improved management of their water resources.

The Mid-Term Evaluation looked at the implementation of RVWRMP III to give advice and suggestions on what changes might be needed to achieve the goals of the project.

The overall objective of the Mid-Term Evaluation was to provide an independent analysis for the decision making with regard to continued validity of the impact, outcome and outputs as set out in the project document.

The evaluation covered the RVWRMP, Phase III since the beginning of its implementation period, March 2016. The key issues and subjects were clustered as follows:

• Governance, especially the impacts and opportunities resulting from adaptation to the federal structure
• Effectiveness, sustainability and exit strategies for Water supply, Irrigation and Microhydro facilities
• Livelihoods interventions, their place in the project and the chosen approaches
• Effectiveness and added value of chosen approach to support holistic way of planning water resources and their use.

Final report available here: https://um.fi/development-cooperation-evaluation-reports-project-and-programme-evaluations/-/asset_publisher/nBPgGHSLrA13/content/valiarviointi-nepalin-maaseudun-vesivarojen-hallintahankkeesta/384998

The general objective of the project, which this contract is part of, was as follows: to help accompany changes to civil society in the democratic strengthening of Senegal.

The specific objective of the contract was to coordinate the technical, administrative and financial aspects of the project on behalf of the NAO.

The "Programme to Support Citizens’ Civil Society Initiatives” was part of the EU’s “Agenda for Change” which placed great emphasis on democracy and good governance. It aimed to help accompany changes to civil society in the democratic strengthening of Senegal by consolidating the achievements of the 9th and 10th EDF through:

• greater citizen involvement in the governance of public action in key development sectors, taking into account the priorities of EU-Senegal cooperation.
• strengthening emerging movements for citizenship, building on urban solidarity networks in the suburban districts of Dakar.

Result 1: three months after kick-off, the logical framework was revised, a monitoring and evaluation system (including tools) was designed and set-up, a multiannual project plan was prepared and a 6-month activity work plan was submitted to the NAO and Head of Delegation for approval.

Result 2: progress reports on the implementation of the contracts (stocktake of the various achievements, constraints and perspectives of the results of the ongoing contracts and actions in the key development sectors in particular those of the 11th EDF) were presented to the steering committee twice a year, along with the dissemination of relevant information on the programme’s achievements.

Result 3: a monitoring and evaluation system (including administrative and financial monitoring of the contracts), was in place which is operational and updated regularly.

The overall objective of the mission was twofold:

• Map the social media in Côte d'Ivoire and its interaction with civil society organisations;
• To develop operational recommendations for a more effective orientation of EU and international government/PTF and NGO funded support to the media in general.

Specific objectives:

• OS1 : To identify the actors present on the scene by carrying out an inventory of the current social media landscape in Cote d'Ivoire. media in Cote d'Ivoire;
• OS2 : Analyse the relationship/interaction of social media with civil society organisations and traditional media Civil Society Organisations and traditional media;
• OS3: Identify the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of social media in strengthening democratic governance in Cote d'Ivoire of democratic governance in Cote d'Ivoire. This also meant analysing the social media both as an instrument that can contribute to political debate and peaceful dialogue or, on the contrary, as an instrument of destabilisation;
• OS4: Develop operational recommendations on how the EU could engage more with the media in general in the framework of its support to Civil Society Organisations and Human Rights, in particular in the implementation of the LIANE II project and the EIDHR, CSO and IcSP instruments.
• OS5: Develop operational recommendations to public authorities, TFPs and international NGOs on how to support the on how to support the media sector (all).

Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) reviews aim to assist the European Commission’s services and EU Delegations in monitoring of and reporting on EU financed development and cooperation projects and programmes in third countries through independent reviews of the progress of their implementation and the achievement of project results. Compared to the ROM reviews conducted over the past decade, ROM reviews will proceed on a number of reforms that aim to improve the quality and the focus in coverage of the ROM reviews and take into account the high level of devolution reached over the past decade for project preparation and monitoring tasks to EUDs at field level.

The ROM reviews and support missions to be carried out are the following:

• ROM reviews of projects signalled as having implementation problems and where EC services have identified a need for an outside expert review to assist in addressing the problems, identifying causes and options for solution and making recommendations. The reviews may take place during the first year of implementation but also at a later stage, depending on when the project or programme is identified as having implementation problems.
• ROM reviews of other projects for which such ROM reviews may have a particular usefulness, in particular for projects which could not be included in the EUDs’ planning of field visits or for which the necessary sector expertise at EUD level may not be sufficiently available at a given point of time or for innovative projects.
• ROM reviews of BS programmes: in countries where a BS programme is signalled as having implementation problems, a ROM review may be organized focusing on the programme in question for the sector specific aspects but also covering the Public Financial Management (PFM) and macroeconomics aspects of all BS programmes financed by the EU in the country. During the first contractual year, ROM reviews for BS programmes will be focused on a limited number of programmes with the aim to test the approach and methodology developed.
• ROM support to end of project reporting on results (outputs and direct outcomes), including for BS programmes. These ROM support missions are to take place no later than the first quarter of each calendar year to assist EC services and EUD in strengthening their results reporting capacities in: assisting with the recording actual results achieved by projects and programmes that have come to an end in the specified calendar year, solving technical difficulties that may occur linked to results reporting, and identifying the systemic needs and modalities for improvement which may be needed in these areas. The ROM support to end of project results reporting missions are to focus on projects of EUR 1.000.000 or more.

The general objective of this mission was to contribute to the education of the RIP-11th EDF projects in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and ownership by all stakeholders in order to increase their impact on regional integration in Central Africa.

The specific objectives of this mission were to support the beneficiaries to:

• Reformulate the missions of the ECCAS Coordination and Monitoring Unit for the implementation of the ECCAS RIP-AC after having assessed its structure and operating conditions in order to increase its capacity for ownership, intervention, information exchange and coordination as well as the mobilization of partners' resources, taking into account the responsibilities that could be assigned to it under the New European Consensus on Development;
• Formulate the type of support for the implementation of a multiannual programme in which all implementation, capacity-building of staff and operation activities of the ECCAS Regional Authorising Officer/EDF Support Unit were to be planned in order to enable this structure to better adapt to the new roles it may have to play in the context of the New European Consensus on Development.

The overall objective is to improve the quality and results of EU external assistance by providing EC staff in headquarters and EU Delegations with:

i) Methodological support regarding the programming, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development actions;

ii) Knowledge sharing support in the sectors of work of EuropeAid and on all aspects of development actions in terms of content and processes.

The specific objective is to develop EC staff skills, knowledge and capacity to programme, design, implement, monitor and evaluate EC external assistance. More specifically, it implies that:

1 — Methodologies and analytical tools for identification, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation are improved, tailored to the staff needs and disseminated including through trainings;

2 — Thematic guidance is improved, tailored to the staff needs and disseminated including through trainings;

3 — Knowledge on projects and on thematic and methodological issues is shared internally and externally, including through online collaborative tools such as Capacity4dev.

To contribute towards obtaining an insight in the coffee value chain in order to design interventions that lead to sustainable solutions that contribute to the achieving the targets of the Coffee Roadmap.

To develop a detailed and costed implementation plan for the initiatives identified in the Coffee Roadmap for Uganda for the next 5 years commencing the financial year (FY) 2019/20.

The overall objective of the assignment was to contribute to an enhanced communication and visibility of civil society organisations that have been supported by the EU in the human rights and social justice sectors in South Africa.

More specifically, the assignment aimed to generate a series of multi-media projects around the CSOs working in the human rights and social justice sectors, in an effort to:

• Enhance the communication around the roles played by CSOs in the field of socio economic rights and the results of their work (vis-à-vis key stakeholders, namely the authorities, but also private donors, the EU and Member States, INGOs and regional and global CS platforms, etc.) and
• Deepen capitalisation efforts by portraying a number of successful projects funded by the EU and illustrating the results achieved so far and the lessons learnt in the Road Map process.

Two key outcomes are expected from the assignment:

• The development of the text, lay-out design and printing of a booklet portraying the work of the key South African CSOs working in the socio economic-sector, as well as case studies.
• The realization of a series of short videos (10 + 1) portraying and assessing (with a special focus on the results achieved so far and lessons learnt) a number of interesting Civil Society projects funded by the EU under the SEJA programme/case studies in the human rights and social justice sector