Our projects

The global objective was to promote Public Administration Reform process in the Republic of Moldova and to support the preparation of the Annual Action Programme 2016 in the field of complementary Technical Cooperation Facility. An other objective was to draft four Terms of Reference for the individual activities foreseen in the Annual Action Programme 2015 for Public Administration Reform, one Technical Specifications for the Action on National Bureau of Statistics and support to the tendering procedure.

Global objective of the assignment:

• Contribute to improved visibility of EU and EU assistance through a series of engaging multi-media materials and publications show-casing tangible results of EU funds provided for the development of the Republic of Moldova and its people.
• Ensure promotion and dissemination of the multi-media materials and publications produced in the framework of this contract.

The visibility of the EU and EU assistance in the Republic of Moldova is among key priorities of EU actions in country. An effective and strategic communication, in light of increasing awareness about the results of EU funds provided for the development of the country and its people, is envisaged. Increased communication and visiblity of EU and EU assistance is important to provide the target groups with accessible, easily understandable and relevant information on the different tools and channels of EU assistance.

The overall objective of this assignment was to conduct a final evaluation of the IcSP actions under Commission decision 39786.

The specific objectives of this final evaluation were:

• to assess the performance of the two projects, including types of interventions, design and execution of assignments;
• to assess if and to what extent the projects have contributed to facilitating EU support to third parties engaged in the migration crisis in Haiti;
• to describe the possible steps that could have been taken to minimize the risk of unsuccessful implementation any further (if any);
• to describe the possible positive outcomes despite not achieving certain results;
• to make an assessment of the project’s visibility, information and communication;
• to identify and document key lessons learned;
• to produce a set of recommendations that will assist the EU in designing and implementing future actions in this sector.

Le programme a pour objectif global de promouvoir la conservation durable et concertée de la faune sauvage, de la biodiversité et du patrimoine du Tchad au bénéfice des populations.

L'objectif spécifique est de promouvoir la gestion concertée des aires protégées et écosystèmes fragiles du Tchad. Les trois résultats attendus :

• Résultat 1 - Gouvernance, financement durable et renforcement institutionnel : les capacités des institutions de conservation de la biodiversité, des aires protégées et du patrimoine sont renforcées.
• Résultat 2 - Grand écosystème fonctionnel de Zakouma : un modèle de conservation du Grand écosystème fonctionnel de Zakouma est développé et mis en œuvre de manière concertée.
• Résultat 3 - Patrimoines sahélo-sahariens : la protection, la gestion concertée et la mise en valeur des écosystèmes fragiles et sites patrimoniaux au bénéfice des communautés locales des zones sahélo-saharienne et saharienne sont assurées durablement.

The overall objective of this short-term mission was to provide support to the Governance Support Programme (GSP) partner municipalities on the institutionalisation of municipal long term strategic and development planning models and identification of policy, legislative and institutional requirements necessary for these models to succeed. Of particular interest were international experiences on how strategic planning processes have been institutionalised at a local government level in other countries and the accompanying experiences made. Furthermore, recommendations were developed on the institutionalisation and integration of long term strategic and developmental planning on a local government level across South Africa, aiming at the achievement of the national development outcomes and improvement of public service delivery on the local level.

Specific purposes of the mission were the provision of support to the GSP partner municipalities through a presentation of the research findings on international experience and recommendations in order to support the adjustment of their current planning processes to be more long term orientated and focussed;

Furthermore, recommendations were developed and delivered on key aspects and actions concerning the institutionalisation and integration of long term strategic and developmental planning at a local government level across South Africa;

The GSP’s advisory services to its partner municipalities were supported through recommendations on how to best develop and implement their long term strategic and developmental planning and assistance was provided for policy development at national level through an abstract of the research findings and recommendations on long term strategic and developmental planning.

This 4-year framework contract has the objective to conduct all mid-term and final evaluations of projects and programmes of the Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC-CTB) in the governance sector. Sectors targeted: Justice, security, decentralisation, local development, institutional capacity building.

The following evaluations have been carried out so far are:

• Mid-term review of the project "Appui institutionnel au MACTL pour le pilotage stratégique de la décentralisation et de la déconcentration au Mali", Mali;
• Final evaluation of the project "Appui au développement socio-économique de la Province du Nord (PADSEC)", Rwanda;
• Mid-term review of the project "PADLPC - Projet d'appui au développement local et à la participation citoyenne", Burundi;
• Final evaluation of the project "Support to capacity development in Rwanda", Rwanda;
• Mid-term review of the project "Projet d’appui institutionnel a la mise en œuvre de la politique nationale genre par le Ministere de la population, de la promotion de la femme et de la protection de l’enfant", Niger;
• Mid-term review of the project "Support to Local Government Reform and Development Programme", Palestinian Territories;
• Final evaluation of the project "Kasese District Rural Community Development Programme - Phase II", Uganda;
• Mid-term evaluation of the Common Management Support Units (CMSU) – EPSP – MINIDER - AGRI – DRC;
• Final evaluation of the institutional support to the Ministry of Planning in DRC;
• Final evaluation of the “Support to community development initiatives programme” in the District of Tshopo (Paideco-Tshopo), DRC;
• Final evaluation - Poverty reduction through institutional strengthening at provincial (Nghe An) and district (Quy Chau) levels (Vie 08 036 11) Vietnam;
• Mid-term review of the intervention “Enhancement of procurement capacity of local government authorities project”, Tanzania;
• Mid-term review of the project “Central and decentralized institutional support to the Ministry of Justice in Burundi”;
• Final review of “the support of professionalization of the National Police in Burundi”.
• End-term review of the intervention “Local Government Reform and Development Program (LGRDP)” in Palestine
• Mid-term review of the programme of studies and expertise in DRC
• Mid-term review of the Institutional support project to the regionalisation process in Mali (PAIR)
• Final reviews of the interventions “Support to the decentralization of the Koulikoro region – PADK II” and “Support to civil status – PAEC” in Mali
• Final review of the intervention "Support to the Ministry of foreign affairs, international cooperation and francophonie" in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Yearly review of the intervention facility for front line service delivery improvement - Tirelo Bosha – in South Africa
• Mid-Term Review of the intervention “Support to the development of human resources of beneficiary organisations “SDHR” in Uganda
• MTR of the intervention Capacity Building for Planning Reform (CDPR) in Vietnam
• Mid-Term Review of the Intervention “Regeneration of Historical Centres in Local Government Units (RHC)” in Palestine
• Mid-Term Review of Rwanda Decentralization Support Programme – Enhancing the capacities of districts (RDSP-ECD)
• Final Evaluation of the Project “Enhancement of Procurement Capacity of Local Government Authorities in Tanzania”
• Final review of the intervention “Institutional support project to the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Local Government (MATDRE) for the strategic steering of decentralization and deconcentration” in Mali
• Final Review of the project "Institutional support to the process of regionalisation in Mali" (PAIR)
• Mid-term review of the support project to investments of local authorities (PAICT) in Mali
• External mid-term review of the Support Project on Expertise, Studies and Technical Assistance to the water and environment sector (PAERE) and the Project on Strengthening of Competencies of the sector water and environment (CF) in Bolivia
• Mid-term review of the project to support Burundian organizations through human resources capacity building (PAORC) in Burundi
• Mid-Term Review Of The Intervention “Facility For Capacity Building” (FCB) in Vietnam
• Final Evaluation of the Support Programme for the Implementation of Decentralised Entities in the Dosso Region, phase 2 and extension phase (PAMED II & PAMED II Extension) in Niger
• End-Term Review of the Intervention "Capacity Building for Planning Reform (CDPR)" in Vietnam

The focus of the work of the EUTF addresses the roots of the main development challenges of the 26 African partner countries through direct and immediate actions as well as through “indirect” and long-term initiatives such as on education, skills, improved governance, etc. Significant financial resources have been allocated to undertake programmes across the three African regions where the EUTF is implemented.

The overall objective of the assignment was the production of the 2017 Annual Report of the EUTF for Africa, which serves as an information tool for an informed audience as well as the general public.

The specific objectives were to

• Design the layout of the Annual Report
• Collect pictures to highlight and enhance the text of the report
• Develop and graphically enhance tables and graphs for the presentation of the relevant data of the report
• Edit the English version of the report
• Translate and edit the report into French
• Print 150 copies of the report in English and 100 copies in French

The objective of the Functional review of the Ministry of infrastructure, housing and territorial planning was to assist in decision-making concerning the implementation of the Government’s modernization agenda for the public administration on the level of this specific Ministry.

Being a tool for evaluation and decision-making, the functional review of the Ministry, its conclusions and recommendations should facilitate the implementation of measures to rationalize its structures in order to allow for more efficiency and a better (re-)allocation of resources, especially human resources with the double objective to allow for a better return and to generate savings.

The FR was supposed to be a project of redefining the Ministry’s tasks, its organigram and the allocation of its organs, as well as decision-making responsibilities concerning its key functions.

It should also indicate:

• the needs in terms of staff, the redeployment of officials in the evolving context of reforms to anticipate and especially of deconcentration and decentralisation, taking into account the need to consolidate public finances; in terms of sustainability concerning the development of the wage share and the rebalancing of public expenditure;
• the impact of these functional reviews on the requirements to be taken into account in the context of functional reviews of other Ministries.

The specific objective of this mission was to conduct a functional review of the Ministry with the following characteristics:

a) a focus on relevance, coherence and on the necessity to adapt and adjust the tasks and organisational structures of the Ministry on the one side and the allocation of human and financial resources on these structures on the other side;

• for the sake of a better return and the generation of savings, e.g. throughout internal restructuring;
• taking into account the constraints that may exist at the level of reallocating and redeploying agents in order to accompany priority shifts and new needs in general and
• concerning the limitations of the statutory regulatory framework, especially aspects relating to the experts’ mobility and remuneration and
• particularly in view of the need of redeployment to the regions (decentralized services).

b) an analysis (SWOT or similar) on the capacity of concerned services (allocation-structures, affected posts and instruments available) in order to establish a “forecast management of jobs and skills” of the sector c) formulation of recommendations for guidance and decision-making allowing decision-makers to identify accompanying actions to be foreseen, enabling the Ministry to engage in the progressive implementation of its reorganization and facilitating future steps to introduce periodic functional reviews of other entities within the sector.

The global objective of the assignment was to assess the EU support at regional level, bilateral level and through the blending mechanism (the NIF ) to the partner countries of the Neighbourhood South in the fields of environment (H2020 initiative, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Integrated Water Management, biodiversity and Marine Protected Areas…) over the period 2010-2017, and to propose recommendations for further EU support for the forthcoming programming period 2018-2023.

It also considered how the political relationships between the EU and its partner countries as well as relations between partner countries affect both the implementation of the EU support and the development of harmonised environment sector policies in the Mediterranean region.

Following an invitation by the Salvadoran Government to the European Union to observe the Legislative and Municipal elections taking place on 4 March 2018, an Election Exploratory Mission was deployed to the country from 11 to 25 November 2017.

The Mission’s overall objective was to assess whether the deployment of an EU Election Observation Mission for the 2018 elections would be useful, feasible and advisable, in accordance with the criteria set out in the communication on EU Election Assistance and Observation (COM(2000)191) and the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation.

The specific objective of the Mission was to produce strategic analysis and reporting on the ongoing electoral processes and to provide input for electoral reform as well as confidence-enhancing measures during and after the elections.

The Mission met with a wide range of government authorities, election administration, the judiciary, political parties, independent candidates, Armed Forces, human rights institutions, civil society, domestic and international observers, media representatives, international organisations and the EU and other diplomatic communities. The mission undertook field visits to Santa Ana, San Miguel, San Vicente, La Unión, Usulután, Ahuachapán and Chalatenango.