Libya

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.

The European Union Trust Fund (EUTF) for Africa provides a coordinated response by the European Union, its Member States and other donors to multiple crises affecting the most vulnerable and marginalised people in the Sahel and Lake Chad, the Horn of Africa, and the North of Africa. The overall objective of the EUTF is to support all aspects of stability and contribute to better migration management as well as addressing the root causes of destabilisation, forced displacement and irregular migration, in particular promoting resilience, economic and equal opportunities, security and development, and addressing human rights abuses.

This evaluation will focus specifically on protection interventions financed by the EUTF North of Africa window in Libya. It will cover eight major interventions financed by the EU over the 2017-2021 period. The main objectives of the evaluation are to provide the relevant services of the European Union and interested stakeholders with:

• An overall independent assessment of the performance of the eight interventions, paying particular attention to different levels of results, measured against the expected objectives; and the reasons underpinning such results;
• Key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations in order to improve current and future Protection interventions in Libya.

In particular, this evaluation will serve to:

• Measure the level of aggregated results achieved by the interventions and assess how they have contributed to NoA strategic objective 3 “Strengthen protection and resilience of those in need” (as defined in the Result matrices of the EUTF-NoA and the (re)constructed IL elaborated);
• Understand the reasons behind the performance of the interventions to provide recommendation on how to strengthen relevance, effectiveness, sustainability and impact of the future EU interventions in the Protection sector in Libya.

• The overall objective of the Libya Gender Country Profile was to provide an overall and comprehensive assessment of the gender equality situation in Libya, as well as an analysis of gender-based-violence against women at country level. It contributed to the integration of the EU rights-based approach and gender mainstreaming obligations under the GAP II and future GAP III in future and ongoing cooperation programmes.
• The overall objective of the gender-responsive assessment/evaluation of the on-going EU funded projects in Libya was to provide corrective recommendations and element for reflections for the programming period 2021-2022.

More specifically, the Gender Country profile was to:

• Provide an understanding of the extent of gender inequality in Libya and its causes, how it intersects with other inequalities, its impacts on human rights and Libya’s commitment and capacity to work on GEWE issues;
• Identify key gender issues that need to be addressed, especially in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals;
• Assess possibilities for strengthening the existing Women’s Empowerment Unit under the Presidency Council with concrete proposals; this assessment of possibilities needed to include a SWOT/capacity assessment of the unit and come with a concrete proposal of what could be done (mainly in terms of training/TA);
• Define how international cooperation can support the formulation of the country’s gender equality policies;
• Update the 2015 GCP and provided key elements on how the EU and EU-MS support on GEWE (approach, methods, delivery and results) can be improved in the light of the 2021-2022 programming period;
• Assess Libya’s legal, economic and political context as related to gender equality, gender discrimination against women, men and LGBT. It also identifies human rights and decent work deficits from a gender and non-discrimination perspective;
• Facilitate the development of gender-responsive country strategy, programmes and projects;
• Provide quantitative and qualitative information for advocacy, programming, budgeting, and decision-making purposes;
• Be an analytical and operational document, which included suggestions for strategies, types of actions, and proposes pertinent modalities for a constant monitoring and evaluation of EU funded actions in order to address the gender gap identified through documentary review and analysis;

More specifically, the specific objectives of the gender-responsive evaluation/assessment included:

• Analysis and evaluation of the design and planning (objectives, results pursued, activities planned), the implementation and results of an indicatively maximum of 15 projects of the full list of ongoing or recently completed projects, programme from a gender perspective;
• Production of a set of recommendations on corrective measures and programming 2021-2022;
• The project-based gender evaluation informs how projects managed by the EUDELLY ensure a consistent application of gender mainstreaming and gender equal.

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.

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.

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