Algeria

To achieve the first specific objective, the contractor will need to complete four interlinked results to ensure that the MLS in place efficiently measures overall progresses of migration related projects implemented in the Neighbourhood South.

Result 1

The first critical step is to develop a Monitoring and Learning System (MLS) methodology for the Migration Neighbourhood South portfolio - ensuring tailor made information provision and reporting services - according to corporate reporting requirements. The contractor will assess the needs and agree upon the MLS methodology with all relevant parties, including DG MENA HQ team, EU Delegations and a sensible sample of key Implementing Partners (IP) (Result 1). The main rationale is to build on the experience and knowledge from previous and ongoing MLS systems, in particular the MLS for the EUTF North of Africa window and MLS MADAD, and to foster harmonization with the current MLS approaches and methodology, ensuring continuity and comparability in MLS data and reporting.

Result 2

The second layer envisaged is developing a capacity-building strategy aimed at providing tailoredtechnical support to the EC Neighbourhood South Migration teams and Implementing Partners (IP) based on a need analysis (Result 2). This capacity-building component will be implemented over the whole duration of the contract and adjusted according to any emerging ad-hoc needs. To be noted that, if some adjustments of the MLS methodology are deemed necessary, it is critical to foresee a solid capacity-building session to foster knowledge transfer, mutual understanding and consensual agreement among all parties (MLS, EC and IP teams).

Result 3

Finally, yet importantly, the third key component is for the MLS contractor to regularly produce and disseminate monitoring reports, on one hand analysing overall progresses of the Neighbourhood South

Migration portfolio in function of the stakeholders’ needs and relevant EC results reporting exercises

(e.g. against the MIP priorities or other relevant principles of interventions as well as the Neighbourhood South intervention logic, and on the other hand summarizing, structuring and facilitating dissemination of relevant key migration facts (Result 3).

Result 4

To achieve the second specific objective and taking into account the recommendations from the of the

European Court of Auditors (ECA) Special Report 17/2024 on the EUTF for Africa and the European Commission’s replies, the contractor will develop a learning and communication strategy (Result 4), providing for cross-country analysis of MLS data, cross-regional analysis of Neighbourhood South Migration main thematic areas in the region and qualitative case studies of best practices. The reports produced will also put Neighbourhood South Migration activities into a broader contextual perspective assessing their coherence with other donor funded activities and identifying priorities and opportunities for extending current migration related activities into the next programming exercise. Particular attention should also be paid on creating a bridge between ongoing migration activities and future programming on migration to ensure that the knowledge and experience gained are integrated into policymaking and the next funding cycles, as well on assessing if and to which extent previous lessons learned have been implemented so far.

• Result 1: MLS-NoA methodology – ensuring the overall MLS stability and continuing to address

NoA specific needs – is reviewed to provide for an increased level of harmonization with the MLS in place in HoA and SLC with any necessary revisions agreed upon by all parties involved.

• Result 2: NoA capacity-building strategy – providing tailored technical support to both the EUTF teams and implementing partners – is developed and executed according to a need-based analysis.
• Result 3: NoA monitoring reports – analysing progresses of the EUTF-NOA portfolio against both

EUTF strategic objectives and principles of interventions as well as EUTF-NoA intervention logic

– are regularly produced and publically disseminated.

• Result 4: NoA learning strategy – based on cross-country analysis of MLS data, cross-regional analysis of EUTF main thematic areas, qualitative case studies of best practices and contextual analysis – is developed with its findings publically presented to the relevant audience agreed upon.

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.

ROM services to be provided through this contract are clustered in three components:

** Component 1: ROM Reviews. ROM contractors will assess the performance of EU-funded interventionson the basis of the following OECD DAC evaluation criteria: relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability.

ROM reviews will cover:

-A sample of EU funded interventions during the inception phase of implementation. The ROM review will support the OM in confirming or updating intervention logic and logframe matrix, in reviewing the monitoring system of the IP, in assessing risks and mitigation measures and fine tune the calendar of activities with a view to improve the performance of the intervention across the OECD DAC criteria.

- ROM reviews will assist the OM in adressing the main implementation problems.

-Other interventions for which Commission services request a ROM review on demand (interventions which could not be visited by EU OMs or for which there is a lack of sector expertise in the EU Delegation/operational unit in HQ).

- Blending operations, focused on asessing the value added of the EU contribution and on the performance of blending interventions in terms of socio-economic development.

** Component 2: Quality assurance and support at design stage for a sample of interventions. Provide technical support to EC services in the formulation of intervention logics and related logical frameworks matrices (logframes) and monitoring and reporting arrangements for a sample of interventions.

**Component 3: Results report (at corporate and intervention level). The Contractor will provide services to encode and quality control results data for a set of interventions subject to results reporting. TOM contractor will ensure quality control of data included in the intervention's logframes. Such quality controls will include, amongs others: verifying that the logframe is correctly encoded and up-to-date , enssuring that the latest values related to logframe indicators are available, and supporting the aggregation of intervention-level results into the EU Results Framework or other frameworks.

This mid-term evaluation, which is both retrospective and forward-looking, aims to independently analyse the performance of the intervention in terms of results, impacts and sustainability, while providing strategic guidance for the next stages of the EU Programme on the Blue Economy in Algeria. It assesses the contribution of the coordination tools and activities implemented to the specific objectives of the Programme and to the EU's cross-cutting priorities, in particular gender, environment and climate. The evaluation will provide concrete recommendations to strengthen coordination between stakeholders, improve the effectiveness of monitoring mechanisms and ensure greater consistency of actions. Its conclusions will ultimately feed into strategic thinking on the sustainability of achievements and future programming in the sector.

The general aim of this service is to support the European Union Delegation in Algeria in its work to prepare the 2024 Annual Action Programme.

The aim of this mission is to provide the European Union Delegation in Algeria with the elements of a support programme for the water resources management sector, with a view to economic development and respect for the environment.

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 compared to its expected objectives, and the reasons for these results;
• The main lessons, conclusions and recommendations arising from the evaluation in order to improve current and future interventions.

In particular, this evaluation served 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.

This independent evaluation of WFP Interim Country Strategic Plan (CSP) in Algeria (2019-2022) assessed the strategic positioning, added value, and results of WFP’s operations in the country.

The evaluation served the double purpose of accountability (performance and results assessment) and learning (why certain results occurred or not, lessons and evidence for decision-making about a potential scale-up). It aimed at informing the design of the next CSP for Algeria.

WFP's operations in Algeria were implemented in the Sahrawi Refugee camps near Tindouf. Main activities included: general food assistance distribution, school feeding, social behavioural change communication, and livelihood activities.

The evaluation team conducted interviews with different stakeholders including WFP staff, WFP cooperation partners, Sahrawi authorities, as well as focus group discussions with beneficiaries.

The final evaluation report is available at: https://www.wfp.org/publications/evaluation-algeria-wfp-interim-country-strategic-plan-2019-2022

Background

In March 2017, the UfM Climate Change Expert Group (UfM CCEG) adopted a 5-years work-program, which stress the importance to strengthen climate finance in the Euro-Mediterranean region to address climate change issues. In April 2019, UfM Member States agreed to pursue the assessment of climate finance in the UfM region, with the view of providing sound basis for a renewed climate mandate of the UfM by 2020, with the new UfM Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change.

Target Groups

Target gruops of tehis technical assistance are: UfM Institutions, UfM Member States, International Financial Institutions, International Climate Change Institutions, Civil society representatives, Private sector Organisations and Institution interested in UfM regional integration.

Objectives

• The primary objective of this technical assistance is to enhance the knowledge of UfM Member States, International Financial Institutions, civil society representatives, private sector organisations and any other institution interested in the UfM regional integration, regarding the level of financial commitments made in 2018 and in 2019 to address climate change issues in the UfM region.
• The second objective is to explore the feasibility of financial mechanisms, which could be implemented in the UfM region with the aim of enhancing the mobilisation of climate finance for specific population or sectors, while building on lessons learned in some specific sectors (in particular in the water sector) or potentially in other regions, such as Caribbean or Latin America.

Expected Results

• R1 - to have a precise figure of financial commitments made to recipients in UfM developing countries in 2018 and in 2019, by public/private donors from developed/developing countries;
• R2 - to have a precise view of commitments and disbursements made by national governments, local authorities, private sector and, if possible, households addressing climate change in UfM developing countries;
• R3 - to have the methodology and process in place for monitoring, reporting and verifying climate finance commitments made in the UfM region, especially by ensuring the involvement of all relevant actors, including the scientific community, the private sector and NGOs;
• R4 - quantitative and qualitative analysis of financial mechanisms, which could be implemented in the UfM region with the aim of enhancing the mobilisation of climate finance for specific population or sectors.

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.

ROM services provided through this contract were clustered in three components:

** Component 1: ROM Reviews. ROM contractors assessed the performance of EU-funded interventions on the basis of the following OECD DAC evaluation criteria: relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability.

ROM reviews covered:

-A sample of EU funded interventions during the inception phase of implementation. The ROM review supported the OM in confirming or updating intervention logic and logframe matrix, in reviewing the monitoring system of the IP, in assessing risks and mitigation measures and fine tune the calendar of activities with a view to improve the performance of the intervention across the OECD DAC criteria.

- ROM reviews assisted the OM in adressing the main implementation problems.

-Other interventions for which Commission services requested a ROM review on demand (interventions which could not be visited by EU OMs or for which there was a lack of sector expertise in the EU Delegation/operational unit in HQ).

- Blending operations, focused on asessing the value added of the EU contribution and on the performance of blending interventions in terms of socio-economic development.

** Component 2: Quality assurance and support at design stage for a sample of interventions.The Contractor Provided technical support to EC services in the formulation of intervention logics and related logical frameworks matrices (logframes) and monitoring and reporting arrangements for a sample of interventions.

**Component 3: Results report (at corporate and intervention level). The Contractor provided services to encode and quality control results data for a set of interventions subject to results reporting. TOM contractor ensured quality control of data included in the intervention's logframes. Such quality controls included, amongs others: verifying that the logframe is correctly encoded and up-to-date , enssuring that the latest values related to logframe indicators were available, and supporting the aggregation of intervention-level results into the EU Results Framework or other frameworks.

The specific objective of the mission was twofold:

1. to support the authorities in the formulation of the country's strategy for the promotion of a ++

blue economy approach++,

2. to identify and formulate a support program for the fisheries sector, integrating the sustainable management of fishery resources, marine ecosyste, social inclusiveness and coordination with other sectoral actions aimed at a blue economy.

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.

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

a) +++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.

b) +++ 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.

c) 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 .

d) ROM support to end of project reporting on results (outputs and direct outcomes), including for BS programmes. These ROM support missions are 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 750.000 or more.

Le bénéficiaire de ce projet etait le CENEAP (Centre National d'Etudes et d'Analyse pour la Population et le Développement).

Le projet visait à aider le CENEAP à répondre à la question suivante: "Comment renforcer le rôle de la société civile organisée et consolider la participation citoyenne dans la gestion des services publics locaux?"

Les objectifs particuliers de ce projet consistaient à

• analyser la réalité de la participation de la société civile dans la gestion des affaires locales (diagnostic/évaluation) en faisant un inventaire des réussites et des échecs de démocratie locale participative en Algérie.
• étudier les attentes des citoyens pour participer à la gestion des services publics locaux et dans quels services publics ils souhaitent être le plus actifs.
• chercher les réponses des citoyens à la question "comment développer les capacités de la société civile dans la gestion des affaires locales" et proposer un modèle/processus permettant une meilleures participation de la société civile dans la gestion des affaires locale.

The overall objective of the mission was to contribute to the promotion of CS organisations as agents of change and to contribute to strengthening environmental sustainability.

The specific objectives of the mission were as follows:

• Carry out an inventory of civil society, the development of CSOs involved in the field of the environment and their distribution according to their mandate and structuring;
• Strengthen and enhance the role of CSOs in environmental protection and management;
• Clarify and bring closer the visions around CSO-PP partnership concepts;
• Identify the practices (good and bad) which represent levers or barriers to CSO action;
• Identify concrete actions allowing a quality contribution of CSOs to the implementation of the National Strategy for the Environment and Sustainable Development (Stratégie nationale de l'environnement et du développement durable; SNEDD), the National Action Plan for the Environment and Sustainable Development (Plan national d'action pour l'environnement et le développement durable; PNEAEDD) and the SDGs, based on the added value of CSOs, the development of the Algerian context and new local and international environmental challenges. The actions took into account the legal framework, capacity building processes, access to information, the socio-economic context as well as the partnership and the leadership (co-leadership);
• Study the experiences of partnerships particularly between CSOs and PP and formulate recommendations and lessons in order to develop and improve the quality of these partnerships. The study included international examples on sustainable environmental integration in relation to the water, health and transport sectors supported by CSOs and examples of service delegation to associations in this field, explaining the mechanisms and tools applied in order to ensure this.

The required services aimed at assisting associations defending the rights of women, children, vulnerable individuals, terror victims, people with disabilities and road accident victims to eliminate factual and juridical barriers they may encounter, enforcing the rights of their litigant members.

The specific objectives were to:

• Support the protection of victims of violence in order for them to make use of the rights stipulated in the Constitution.
• Promote the enforcement of legal provisions defending the rights of victims of violence.
• Draw the attention of prosecutors and lawyers to the need to build on the international conventions ratified by Algeria in their pleadings, according to article 58 of the Code of Civil and Administrative Procedure (law dated 25 February 2008), as well as the rules of Algerian positive law for victim protection on which they can base the drafting of their petition in order for the judges to make judgments in favour of victims of violence.

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.

The main objective of the evaluation was to analyse and evaluate the capacity building support provided to civil society by both regional and bilateral programmes during the period 2012-2016. This evaluation has focused on the efforts funded under ENPI and ENI.

The evaluation was also supposed to provide a series of recommendations to support innovative ways for contributing to building capacities of civil society organizations at a regional level in the future in complementarity with the political objectives as set out in the revised ENP and in the 2012 Communication of the European Commission - The roots of democracy and sustainable development: Europe's engagement with Civil Society in external relations and related Council Conclusions, as well as the EU Country Roadmaps for Engagement with Civil Society, a joint initiative between the European Union and Member States which aims to strengthen the strategic engagement with civil society.

Specific objectives

• to provide an overall independent assessment of the support given by the European Union to build capacities of civil society in the Neighbourhood South from both regional and national programmes - mainly through i) the Technical Assistance programme of the Civil Society Facility; ii) the Regional Grants of the Civil Society Facility; iii) bilateral support to capacity building (managed by EU Delegations) and iv) specific support to two institutions: Anna Lindh Foundation and European Endowment for Democracy. The assessment was supposed to take a look into issues related to their design, implementation and overall performance;
• Drawing up from key lessons; provide recommendations in order to inform the identification of current and future regional initiatives supporting capacities of civil society, especially in light of the complementarity and added value that can be given to efforts implemented at the national level

The main objectives of the evaluation are the following:

• to provide an overall independent assessment of the European Union's financed project PPRD South II, its design, its implementation by the Civipol consortium as well as its overall performance;
• to identify key lessons and recommendations for the implementation of PPRD South III.

The evaluation should focus on the following specific objectives:

Assessment of the design of the project

1. Evaluate the appropriateness of the project objectives and their relevance with respect to the programme's objectives and requirements, taking into account the specific policy environment as it stood when it was decided in 2013 and as it stands at the moment;

2. Review the project's approach and methodology and assess its appropriateness for achieving the programme's objectives;

Assessment of the implementation of the project

3. Assess the overall implementation of the project;

4. Review the efficiency and effectiveness, outputs, impact and sustainability of the supported actions with respect to the project's objectives and the project's capacity to reach out to the target groups, taking into account involvement of key stakeholders across all partner countries and all EU Member States;

5. Evaluate the complementarity with other related EU and EU Member States funded programmes in the Southern Neighbourhood Region and in particular UCPM and actions funded by DG ECHO (SASPARM, eFIRECOM and IPCAM) or actions financed by the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (CBRN Centres of Excellence: www.cbrn-coe.eu).

6. Evaluate the relevance and stability of the project partnerships, taking into consideration partners' statute, motivation, roles and expertise and assess the local ownership of the project activities;

7. Assess the visibility of project activities.

Recommendations for future actions

On the basis of the lessons learnt and considering the latest developments in the ENP region, the final report will include recommendations for the future PPRD South III.

8. Propose recommendations for the future PPRD South III, in terms of better targeting the project and a possible re-orientation of its respective activities but also in terms of its implementation structure. These recommendations should be coherent with design included in the action document for PPRD South III.

L’objectif global du programme EAU II est de soutenir la stratégie algérienne d’assainissement en matière de protection des ressources en eau et de contribuer, d’autre part, à la réduction de la prévalence des maladies à transmission hydrique.

L'évaluation a pour principaux objectifs de présenter aux services de coopération extérieure concernés de l’Union européenne, au gouvernement partenaire et, le cas échéant, au grand public:

• Une appréciation globale, en toute indépendance, des résultats du Programme d’Appui au Secteur de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement (EAU II), en s’attachant aux résultats du projet par rapport à ses objectifs;
• Les principaux enseignements de l'intervention et des recommandations afin d’améliorer les mesures en cours et les futures actions.

L'évaluation sera structurée en 2 parties:

• Mission I - Evaluation finale, qui aura lieu vers la fin de la mise en œuvre du programme, qui aura le but d'évaluer la mise en œuvre du programme par rapport à ses objectifs et ses attentes
• Mission II – Evaluation ex-post, à 6 mois de la fin de mise en œuvre qui servira à faire l'état de lieux du suivi, par le partenaire algérien, des actions entamées et mises en place avec l'aide du programme EAU II et à confirmer leur pérennisation sur le long terme. A la fin de mission, une session de dissémination sur l'impact du programme EAU II sera également organisée.