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The global objective of the assignment was to assist the National Treasury and the EU Delegation to

South Africa to design (a) programme(s) aimed at improving public service delivery innovation and performance in municipalities through enhanced financial management and organisational

(institutional & human) capacity in line with the mandates of local government.

The specific objective of this assignment, was to contribute to the design of (a) multi-disciplinary programme(s), scheduled for 2017, taking into account the preliminary work done by the EU Delegation to South Africa and the Government of South Africa.

The objective of this budget support evaluation was to assess the extent to which EU budget support in Peru contributed to achieve sustainable results on poverty and inequality reduction in specific sectors during the period 2009-2016.

More specifically, the evaluation aimed to take stock of what had been achieved, with the primary purpose of drawing lessons and formulating forward-looking recommendations. In particular, conclusions were to be drawn on: i) the conditions under which budget support had an effect (or not), as well as the possible intensity and nature (positive or negative) of such effects in Peru;ii)

the constraints within government policies, institutional structures, and administrative arrangements in Peru that might have hindered the overall effectiveness and impact of public spending and targeted policies, and therefore of budget support itself.

The main objectives of the evaluation were to provide the relevant external co-operation services of the European Union and the partner government with an overall independent assessment of the current and past performance of the EU-Funded programmes in the fields of security and safety, paying particularly attention to the results of the projects against their designed objectives and the security objectives of the EU more particular in the fields of CVE and CT. A strategical rather than operational focus was expected.

The mid-term evaluation for Decision IcSP 2015/038-522 aimed to:

• draw lessons from the first months/years of the intervention implementation;
• adjust the contents of the on-going intervention in relation to realities in the field and/or contextual developments;
• improve the intervention under way and its results;
• identify other areas of support after the end of the programme.

While for the final evaluation for Decision ENPI 2012/023-533 and all remaining projects the main aim was to :

• detect the real changes in the field and analyse the changes produced by the intervention;
• check and explain achieved results;
• identify and judge unexpected results;
• assess the sustainability of the intervention's benefits;
• report to the institutions that have allocated the resources;
• transfer acquired experiences to other countries or sectors.

The evaluation covered all evaluation criteria (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability + EU value added and coherence).

The project aimed to promote public awareness regarding the objectives of the EU financial assistance in the transport sector and its impact on Turkish citizen's lives and Turkey’s economy.

Activities carried out to ensure and sustain the proper visibility of TOP and its projects.

A renewed perspective for the Communication Strategy and Action Plan was prepared.

Project-specific publicity events, media exchanges, focused events organized.

Raising of awareness and the dissemination of information to the general public and other stakeholders assured via printed, visual, website and social media.

The project also provided expert support to the Contracting Authority to enhance its capacity to implement information and publicity activities via formal training modules and a study visit.

The following results conducted:

• Public awareness raised on the TOP policy, activities, achievements and opportunities.

• Operations which are funded by TOP are promoted and target groups are informed about the programme and projects.

• Capability of the EULD Staff and end recipients of publicizing the projects improved.

• Sustainability of publicity/visibility activities ensured.

The global objective of the evaluation was to provide the EUD to BiH with sufficient information to make an informed judgment about the past performance of the selected projects (their efficiency, effectiveness and impact), to document lessons learned and to provide practical recommendations for follow-up action.

The specific objectives of this project were:

• To assess in particular the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of project implementation, indicating clearly to what extent the results, purposes and overall objectives of the selected projects were achieved.
• To provide comparative assessment of efficiency, effectiveness and impact of EUD interventions based on the selected projects, including strengthens and weaknesses of the different implementation methods.
• To identify and document lessons learned, focusing on the design, implementation and management of the selected projects for improving of programming and identification of possible future actions under IPA II.
• To provide recommendations for practical follow-up action, with the emphasis on actions related to sustainability of project benefits

The aim of the project was to contribute to improving water governance and management of water resources and to the sustainable development and maintenance of water infrastructure in ACP countries, through strengthening and promoting Water Operators Partnership.

The principal purposes of this contract were:

• to present the lessons learned from the projects of the 2nd CfP of the Water facility;
• to review the existing initiative related to Water Partnership;
• to present an inventory of Professional Association of European Water Operator, and their willingness to engage in Water Partnership;
• to disseminate the interlink between the result of the analysis above and the evaluation of the Water Facility, focusing on the water operators component (organisation of an event in Brussels).
• to elaborate a proposal for a strategy to strengthen Water Operator Partnership, in light of the lessons learned from the second CfP of the 10th EDF Water Facility and the existing initiatives.

The evaluation assessed three regional forestry projects that had support to small producers, development of value chains and the use of participatory approaches in common:

1. ForInfo: Livelihood improvement through generation and ownership of forest information by local people in products and services markets (Mekong, 2011–2015);

2. Finnfor-II: Integrated environmental and forest management co-operation (Central America, 2012–2016);

3. MFS: Sustainable forest management in the Andean region (South America, 2011–2016).

The purpose of the evaluation was to provide guidance to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in planning and implementing regional forestry projects. It produced lessons for future forest sector co-operation and planning of other regional programmes. Specific objectives of the evaluation were to:

• Assess the added value of the regional approach compared to a country-based approach;
• Assess the success of the programmes in promoting sustainable forestry based livelihoods and increasing income of small producers;
• Identify the lessons learned from developing value chains and payment for ecosystem services.

The evaluation was conducted in several phases:

• An inception phase focusing on the design and the methodology of the evaluation;
• A desk and field phase with document review and visits to eight different countries in the three regions;
• A synthesis phase with global-level conclusions and recommendations across the three regional projects, presented in a final report to concerned stakeholders.

The global objective of this assignment was to contribute towards effective implementation of

Integrated Catchment Management in Lesotho through operationalisation of the ICM framework, including improved coordination among relevant stakeholders in line with the

Long-term Water and Sanitation Strategy.

The specific objectives of this assignment were to:

• Support the institutional and legal reforms for operationalising the ICM Framework, both at national level and at catchment level and based on progress already made in the establishment of the National Inter-Ministerial Catchment Committee - NICMC;
• Support the validation of prioritisation and sequencing as proposed, such through workshops involving all stakeholders based on the identification of the first group of pilot sub-catchments for implementation;
• Contribute to development of catchment management plans for each of the prioritised pilot sub-catchments including annual plans of action and tentative budgets.

The GIZ spported the Liberian transport sector since 2008 through the project “Capacity Development in the Transport Sector.”

Particwas invited to facilitate a strategy workshop for the project. The objective of the workshop is to streamline project implementation and to develop an idea for the subsequent phase of the project.

In additiot the strategy workshop was complemented with team-building activities, as new team leaders have recently joined the team.

The "Strengthening of the Government Control System" Project had the objective of improving the performance of government control in Paraguay through the development of the regulations and operational methodology of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR), complying with international standards and aligned with the regulations and methodology of Internal Control. Furthermore it aimed at strenghtening the capacities of the CGR staff in control tasks sensitizing and public officials of State Agencies and Entities, as well as expanding and improving the technological capabilities of the CGR. The Project was structured into three components:

1. Normative and methodological development,

2. Technical training and sensitization, and

3. Strengthening of Technological Capacities.

The contracted consultancy was mainly framed in Component 1, which aims to support the normative and methodological development of Paraguay's control framework.

The objective of the consultancy was: To provide the Comptroller General of the Republic with methodological guidelines for the execution of the audit work carried out by the institution in compliance with the functions established in the National Constitution. The guidelines were based on the Paraguayan Government Auditing Standards (NAGUPY), and considered the Audit Manual (MAGUP) for the implementation of government control. They also were aligned with the International Standards on Auditing for Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAI), considered the Integrated Audit Control System (SICA) and also took into account the elements set out in the latest version of the COSO for the evaluation of the Internal Control System.