Togo

The EU has financed two global interventions to support the UNECE Water Conventiontion, with a particular emphasis on promoting accession and strengthening implementation. The evaluation covered Phase 1 (01/04/2019-30/06/2022) with a budget of EUR 2,350,000, and Phase 2 (01/07/2022-31/12/2024) with a budget of EUR 3,000,000. The scope was global and the evaluation covered the entire implementation periods of Phase 1 and Phase 2.

The ex-post evaluation’s overarching purpose was twofold: (i) provide EU services and stakeholders with an independent assessment of performance and levels of results achieved against expected objectives, and (ii) identify lessons learned, conclusions, and recommendations to inform improvements to ongoing and future support.

Evaluation focus:

• assessing the relevance and coherence of EU-supported components of the Convention’s work programme in both phases, with a particular focus on activities that facilitate accession and support implementation by new Parties;
• examining the efficiency and effectiveness of the Water Convention secretariat in implementing EU-supported components, including its capacity to respond to increasing demands; and
• drawing lessons and forward-looking recommendations for improving sustainability. A Theory of Change is to be developed considering causal and contextual assumptions as part of the assessment approach

The objective of this facility is to improve the overall quality of the NDICI Rapid Response and Peace, Stability and Conflict Prevention thematic areas by providing high quality research services.

We will provide the FPI with flexible and ad hoc research services and prepare literature reviews and rapid assistance reports in the thematic areas specified below.

The main objectives of this evaluation were to provide the relevant EU services and interested stakeholders with:

• An overall independent analysis of the performance of the Justice Sector Support Programme (JSSP), paying particular attention to its different levels of results in comparison with its expected objectives, and the reasons for these results;
• The main lessons, conclusions and recommendations arising from it in order to improve current and future interventions.

In particular, this evaluation serves to understand the performance of the YSAP, its determining factors and those that have hindered the achievement of results, so as to be accountable for the use of EU resources in relation to the results of the YSAP and to serve as a basis for reflection for the next strategic programming of Team Europe in Togo.

The overall objective of the assessment mission is to assess the performance of the public finance management system using the PEFA methodology and the different developments since the previous assessment in 2016.

The assessment mission should be able to explain the changes observed and the degree of sustainability of the improvements observed by identifying the factors that contributed to the progress (or lack of progress) recorded compared to the previous assessment.

The results of this assessment will allow the formulation of new reform measures that will allow the updating of the Public Finance Management Reform Action Plan.

The periodic measurement of public finance management performance by national stakeholders and technical assistance missions are regularly taken into account and enrich the action plan.

The results will feed into the analytical work of the Technical and Financial Partners group on economic governance and facilitate a concerted dialogue between TFPs and the government on reforms.

By integrating a gender module, the report will highlight the progress and challenges of the public finance system in Togo with regard to gender equality, in particular the development and implementation of gender budgeting, and will show the efforts already made by Togo and the challenges that remain with regard to gender.

The environmental protection module will also allow Togo to measure progress and make adjustments to improve the country's performance in this area.

The main purpose of this evaluation was to provide the relevant EU services and interested stakeholders with the following information:

• a global and independent analysis of the performance of the State Consolidation Programme and of the Associative World, paying particular attention to its intermediate results, in comparison with the expected objectives, and the reasons supporting these results;
• lessons learned, conclusions and associated recommendations, so as to improve, where appropriate, present and future actions.

In particular, this evaluation served to understand the performance of the action, its determining factors and those which have hindered the achievement of results, so as to adapt its design or implementation arrangements to serve as a basis for planning future EU actions and interventions in the same sector.

With regard to the Local Governance component, the recent establishment of 117 municipalities implies that this evaluation identified the adaptations already made by the project to this new reality, the obstacles to these adaptations, and proposed adaptations to better accompany the process of decentralization which is accelerating remarkably since the second quarter of 2019.

The main users of this evaluation are: the EU Delegation in Togo, the Ministry of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Local Communities (MATDCL), the Ministry of Planning, Development and Development Cooperation (MPCD), the competent services of the German Embassy, the GIZ and the members of the Technical Monitoring Committee.

The overall objective of the programme was to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the National Development Programme through support for the consolidation of local governance and greater participation of civil society, particularly autonomous women's organizations, in the definition, implementation and monitoring of development policies.

The principal objectives of the evaluation were to present to the European Union’s external cooperation services, to the partner government and, where relevant, to the general public:

• an overall, totally independent assessment of the results of the intervention of PAI II with a particular focus on the project’s results in relation to its objectives;
• the principal lessons learnt from the intervention and recommendations in order to improve the ongoing measures as well as future actions.

Besides gaining knowledge about the assessment of the results and of the experiences made throughout the implementation of the four components of PAI II, the final evaluation of the project under the 11th EDF was particularly supposed to guide the continuation of EU support for state consolidation. These new support activities, whichwere foreseen and formulated in a way differing from the implementing modalities of PAI II, were supposed to build on the achievements of PAI II in terms of realized activities as well as in terms of managing the assistance.

This assignment provided a coherent proposal to ECOWAS and EU for the strengthening of coordination and cooperation in security in West Africa and the implementation of programmes dealing with specific threats.

It gave sufficient background information and justifications to enable the ECOWAS and EU to make an informed decision on specific objectives and of the projects' implementation modalities.

The specific objective of this assignment was to prepare all the necessary elements of 4 different Action Documents to implement 4 potential projects covering respectively areas A, B, C and D.(Area A: Border Management, Area B: Enhancing Cybersecurity in ECOWAS region, Area C: Support to GIABA, Area D: Fighting against illicit trafficking).

For each area A,B,C and D, it was required to proceed to:

• an identification of issues, strategical orientations and priority intervention areas
• a formulation of the project under 11th EDF (Phase II).