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The global objective of this contract was to conduct a final evaluation of the Parliamentary Support Programme.

Particularly attention was paid to:

• The impact of the programme and its actions against the objectives and results defined in the both the Financing Agreement and the service contract with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung;
• Making recommendations for possible future EU support to the Parliament under the 11thEDF ("lessons learnt").

The EU Support to Higher Education in ASEAN Region (EU SHARE) is a 48-months project which Financing

Agreement was signed 28 March 2014 with the total EU contribution of EUR 10 million.

The Programme aims at strengthening regional cooperation, enhance the quality, regional competitiveness and internationalisation of ASEAN higher education institutions contributing to an

ASEAN Community in 2015 and beyond.

The Specific objectives of the programme to be evaluated are:

1. To contribute to the harmonisation of ASEAN higher education area through the formulation of

ASEAN higher education frameworks taking into account the EU experience and

2. To support mutual recognition and student mobility among higher education institution in ASEAN to strengthen people-to-people connectivity.

The expected results are:

1. Policy dialogue on strategic issues of the harmonisation of ASEAN higher education enhanced

2. ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework and ASEAN Regional Quality Assurance further developed and supported;

3. ASEAN Credit Transfer System (ACTS), which can also be linked to an ASEAN-EU Credit Transfer

System (AECTS) further developed and tested through mobility with scholarships.

4. An intra-ASEAN student mobility scheme as well as an ASEAN-EU student mobility scheme, which both also serve to test credit transfer.

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

• an overall independent assessment of the performance of the EU Support to Higher Education in

ASEAN Region, paying particular attention to its intermediate results measured against its objectives;

• Key lessons learned and recommendations in order to improve current (if relevant) and future

Programmes.

• Assess the benefits and propose scope / contents of potential limited extension of programme.

In particular, this evaluation will serve as a means to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability and visibility of the Programme.

The main users of this evaluation will be the European Union, the ASEAN Secretariat, Committee of

Permanent Representatives to ASEAN (CPR), Directorate of Human Development Directorate and Head of the Education, Youth and Sport Division (EYSD) of ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN Member States, the Senior

Official Meeting on Education, the grant contractor and its consortium members and other relevant stakeholders.

The purpose of this Assignment was to have an independent overall evaluation of the ECHO actions in the SAIO region during the period 2012-2016.

Specifically, the evaluation provided:

• A comprehensive, retrospective assessment of DG ECHO's strategy/approach (as formalised by the Humanitarian Implementation Plans), in the SAIO region covering the evaluation issues of relevance, coherence, EU Added Value, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability;
• Prospective, strategic recommendations – based on the retrospective evaluation and the related research – for a future ECHO strategy in the region, with a view of maximizing the benefits of ECHO's initiatives on the ground.

Assistance to the Executive Committee of OCTA in the implementation of its mandate from the 14th OCTA Ministerial Conference to "examine options for further strengthening the OCTA Secretariat" and to "review the Articles of Association in view of presenting recommendations to the 15th Ministerial Conference" in February 2017

The specific results achieved were:

Result 1: Assistance in ensuring that OCTA fulfills its legal, contractual, fiscal, accounting and HR obligations

Result 2: Assistance to OCTA in reviewing the Articles of Association in the context of its institutional strengthening and presenting recommendations to the Ministerial Conference

Result 3: Assistance OCTA in the process of applying for financial support by the European Union in the frame of the 11th EDF.

The global objective of this contract was to minimize the risks of probable disasters that may occur depending on the climate change in Turkey.The specific objectives of this contract were as follows:

• To conduct legislative and institutional gap analysis, climate change impacts and climate related disaster vulnerabilities in Turkey analysis
• To prepare/revise the necessary project documents such as project fiche, terms of reference including the budget and technical specifications based on the analysis of existing documentation and stakeholder views for the project “Enhancing the Capacity to Determine and Reduce the Disaster Risks Stemming from the Climate Change in Turkey".

The risk of electoral violence in Nigeria was high due to exacerbating conflicts in the Delta region, the North-East and for the decades-long conflict between pastoralists and sedentary farmers. Fully aware of the main challenges, the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission (NEC) was committed to resolve the problems related to the situation of internally displaced people and other vulnerable groups to constituency delimitation and many others. In order to support the NEC in tackling these challenges the EU sent an Electoral Observation Mission EOM in 2015 to assess the general elections in the country and has been engaged intensively on the follow-up of the recommendations on both the political and technical level.

Therefore, the overall objective of this assignment was to contribute to the consolidation of democracy and to support institution building and transparency in Nigeria in the context of the implementation of the EU EOM recommendations of 2015.

The specific objectives of the Mission were to:

• Assess and report to the European External Action Service and the EC on the progress made in electoral reforms since the delivery of the final report of the 2015 EU EOM.
• Review and adjust the set of EOM recommendations to the developments regarding electoral and legal reforms as well as the current institutional, political and social context; new recommendations were given to improve future electoral processes, with specific focus on recommendations that could be implemented prior to the next Parliamentary elections in 2019 or prior to the next Presidential elections in 2018.
• Inject momentum in implementing recommendations of the 2015 EU EOM and address shortcomings in view of future elections by meeting all relevant stakeholders, including the national authorities, the election management body representatives, political actors, civil society, representatives of the international community and the media

L'évaluation finale externe avait pour but de faire le bilan général de l'exécution du programme et de tirer des conclusions, recommandations et leçons utiles pour l'Union européenne, les autorités nationales et les partenaires de mise en œuvre. Elle était basée sur une approche orientée vers les résultats et la qualité de l'intervention de l'UE.

Elle devait présenter aux services des instruments de politique étrangère de l'Union européenne, aux autres services intéressés et aux partenaires concernés :

• une appréciation externe et globale, en toute indépendance, des résultats de la mesure 2015/38235 en s’attachant plus particulièrement aux résultats des deux volets par rapport aux deux objectifs spécifiques;
• les principaux enseignements de l'intervention, les conclusions et les recommandations afin a) d’alimenter la définition des stratégies dans ce domaine, b) de confirmer la pertinence de mobiliser l'IcSP pour ce type d'action d'une façon générale, et au Cameroun en particulier et c) d'améliorer les éventuelles futures interventions dans ce domaine (IcSP mais pas seulement).

The overall objective of the mission was to contribute to the improvement, transformation and consolidation of the institutional and legal environment of Tunisian civil society organisations (CSO) in order to guarantee their effective contribution to and participation in decision-making processes and in the implementation of development actions in Tunisia.

The specific objective of this mission was to set up a technical assistance unit to support the Government Presidency with the revision, transformation and consolidation of a legal and regulatory framework for civil society, in close coordination with Tunisian civil society organisations and public actors.

This reworking of the regulatory and legal framework and of the support of actors aimed to enable CSOs to evolve and operate in a clear and coherent legal environment, while at the same time fostering frameworks for dialogue between civil society organisations, public actors, and financial and technical partners.

The Technical assistance did support both the Directorate General of Associations and the Political Parties from the Government Presidency, with the qualitative revision and strengthening of services offered and provided to all the associations by the Tunisian State.

As part of the EU-financed Programme of Support to Civil society in Tunisia (PASC), specific objective 2 was to improve the institutional and legal framework of Tunisian civil society organisations, including the capacities of state actors and local public authorities, procedures and operating conditions, and legal and regulatory texts that govern CSO interventions in Tunisia.

Improving the environment of the CSOs was a central pillar and key to strengthening them. It was indispensable in complementing the capacity building activities for the CSOs, including associative governance, and the promotion of communication and dialogue, which are a particular focus in the context of the PASC.

The EU funded Non-State-Actors programme has supported Russian NGOs in enhancing their management, lobbying, development and service delivery skills.

The global objective of this assignment was to promote results of this Non-State Actors' programme cofounded by the European Union in order to enhance their impact and ensure broader dissemination of developed best practices.

The project collected and displayed information on the results and impacts of the programme for Russian citizens in a brochure about the funded projects.

The global objective of this assignment was to support the Commission to identify the project proposals that contribute best to achieving the objectives of the grant component of the SWITCH-Asia II Programme.

The specific objective was to provide services to the European Commission linked to the administrative (data processing, ranking, and statistical follow-up) and the qualitative parts (technical and financial assessment of Concept Notes and Full Applications) of the evaluation procedure.