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The protection of DR Congo's protected areas requires a concomitant, coordinated and coherent effort to conserve nature within parks and improve the well-being of the population living in peripheral areas, through economic and social benefits. positive social issues. Within this context, the European Union and the DRC concluded a financing agreement to support action to contribute to the protection of the country's ecosystems.

The Coordination Unit of the NIP 11th EDF E&AD DRC Program was called upon to support the EDF National Authorizing Officer in the management of the activities foreseen by the financing agreement.

The overall objective of the project was to contribute to the protection and enhancement of the unique environmental capital of the DRC by increasing the positive economic benefits for the surrounding populations.

The specific objectives was:

• to increase the appropriation of the concerned administrations by feeding the reflection at national level with the lessons of the concrete experiences of the NIP 11th EDF Environment and Sustainable Agriculture.
• to ensure that the program is implemented in accordance with the objectives of the financing agreement.

The results to be achieved by the implementation of the project were the following:

• The Cell is set up and operational
• The integrated planning, monitoring, evaluation and decision support system (PME-DSS) of the NIP 11e EDF E-AD DRC Program is fully operational
• The Steering Committee of the Program Convention fully assumes the decision-making power devolved to it by the Financing Agreement
• The progress reports of the PIN 11e EDF E-AD DRC Program and other documents related to its implementation are prepared in a timely manner and submitted to the project owner and stakeholders
• Program achievements, lessons learned and good practices based on the experience of the program are made available to relevant stakeholders and may be integrated into sectoral policies
• The exchange of information between stakeholders, communication and visibility of the program are ensured.

This evaluation has two overarching objectives. Firstly, to provide the relevant external co-operation services of the European Union (EU) and the wider public with an overall independent assessment of the EU's cooperation with Ukraine between 2014 and 2020. And secondly, to identify key lessons and to produce recommendations in order to inform the responsible decision makers on how to improve the current and future strategies, programmes and actions of the EU in the country.

Its specific objectives are the following:

• To assess the performance (relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, impact, sustainability and EU added value) of EU support (policy dialogue and financial assistance); and
• To provide recommendations for the next programming period.

The evaluation pays particular attention to the areas of i) good governance, ii) economic sector reforms and iii) post-emergency conflict assistance. It is intended to lead to the identification of conclusions, lessons learnt (both positive and negative), good practices regarding the achievement of the EU’s support for Ukraine with a set of targeted and useful forward-looking recommendations for the improvement of the programming, assistance, and implementation of current EU interventions in the country.

The evaluation was terminated by the EU due to Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

In the past 20 years Afghanistan worked hard to increase access to health services across the country, with remarkable progress. The Sehatmandi project introduced a performance management system for the service providers (SPs) of the BPHS/EPHS health services. This system was supported by an extensive independent Third-Party Monitoring program needed to hold service providers accountable and to monitor the availability and quality of services for better decision-making and allocation of resources. In light of the recent developments, it was crucial to maintain appropriate and accessible health services, which requires sufficient human resources and medical supplies. WHO/UNICEF jointly ensured the continuation of the health services in Afghanistan for an initial period of three months, starting on November 2021 until January 2022. To ensure effective performance monitoring of the health services provided and enable payments to SPs, Particip/KIT proposed to carry out TPM services.

I. HMIS Verification and HF functionality Assessment

Specific Objectives for Verification

• Verified the HMIS key performance output indicators (11 P4Ps), covering the period from November 2021 to January 2022.
• Verified the functionality, as defined per the minimum standards of services (MSS), set in the Afghanistan MoPH SoP for BPHS and EPHS, covering the period from November 2021 to January 2022.
• Verified the monthly salary payments for the health staff for the period from November 2021 to January 2022.
• Assessed the HMIS reporting performance (completeness, timeliness, consistency and accuracy) covering the verification period from November 2021 to January 2022)

Specific objectives for Assessing trends

• Assessed the HMIS reporting performance of the 11 P4P indicators (completeness, timeliness and consistency) during the period from July 2021 to December 2021).
• Assessed the functionality of BPHS and EPHS facilities implemented by contracted SPs (NGOs), and the level of compliance with the minimum standards of services, as defined in the Afghanistan MoPH SoP during the period from July 2021 to December 2021.
• Conducted trend analyses to assess the changes in the health services provided since July 2021 and the fluctuations overtime.

II. Drug Quality Assessment

Specific objectives

• Screened the quality of selected medicines in a representative national sample of public health facilities (BPHS and EPHS) supported by WHO/UNICEF during the three months of November 2021 to January 2022.
• Identified medicines that are not in compliance with quality standards and regulatory enforcement from both public sector facilities (BPHS and EPHS)
• Recommended appropriate regulatory actions and adjust pharmaceutical policies based on results of the quality screening of the medicines distributed in public and private sector
• To enhance local capacities to conduct cost-effective and sustainable drug quality assessment

Main staff provided:

• Field manager 338wds
• Finance officer 338wds
• Quality control officer 338 wds
• Logistics officer 338wds
• Deputy data manager 338 wds
• HR officer 338wds
• Office manager 338wds
• Support/admin staff 338wds

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

• an overall independent assessment of the past performance of the first two Technical Cooperation Facilities being implemented in Georgia, paying particular attention to its intermediate results measured against its expected objectives; and the reasons underpinning such results;
• key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations in order to improve current and future Interventions.

In particular, this evaluation served to assessment of planning and designing of the present interventions supporting implementation of EU-Georgia agreements, more specifically EU-Georgia Association Agreement to identify enabling factors and those hampering the design and implementation of these programmes and to deliver recommendations for planning and design of future programmes in support of EU-Georgia agreements.

The main users of this evaluation are the EU Delegation to Georgia and from the Georgian side, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.

Desk review and professional editing and formatting of the draft Revised RISDP.

Results: Revised RISDP is improved in terms of the overall presentation and content, including improvements of its authenticity.

The main purpose of conducting a Human Resources and Administration (HRA) business process reengineering is the need for redesign and modernisation of all HRA processes at SADC Secretariat so as to increase organisational, efficiency and effectiveness.

Results:

a) Project Inception Report, which shall consist of the detailed Project Work Plan to carry out the assignment.

b) As-Is Study Report, including stakeholder analysis, identification of services, and detailed process diagrams for the current business processes.

c) Business Process Reengineered Recommendations Report and mapped business processes, documented as Standard Operating Procedures that are transparent, effective, efficiency, measurable, lean and that are easy to understand.

The general objective of this evaluation is to provide an independent assessment of the performance of EU support to the Rule of Law (RoL) and Anticorruption in the period 2010-2021 in INTPA partner countries, funded under DCI, EDF, EIDHR, IcSP, CSO and relevant Trust Funds. The evaluation seeks to be a stock-taking and forward-looking exercise but will focus on learning i.e. the identification of key lessons on what has and has not worked and why.

In addition, the specific objectives for this evaluation are:

• To assess the EU support to independent, effective and efficient justice systems, notably a) legislative processes (legality), b) legal certainty and access to justice; and c) equality and accountability before the law, in terms of its impact on good governance (including stability, human rights and democracy, environmental governance and business climate).
• To look at actions aimed at promoting anti-corruption, public accountability and transparency, improving the justice systems and enforcing the principle of separation of powers.
• To pay specific attention to the inclusion of different groups (political, ethnic, religious, etc.), women and youth in decision making at all levels.
• To gather insights on the extent to which the different tools, instruments and modalities used in the EU response have been beneficial in providing effective support to partner countries and the interactions and coherence of those, notably of policy and political dialogue.
• To evaluate the rationale of the EU in these supports to RoL, as well as risk mitigation measures and the impact of policy dialogue, not least on societal and state resilience.
• To produce recommendations for decision-makers in DG INTPA, FPI, DG NEAR, DG ECHO, DG Trade, DG JUST and EEAS on how to improve the EU’s policy strategy and implementation.

The temporal scope of the evaluation is 2010 to 2021, with a particular focus on the previous MMF (2014-2020). The evaluation will focus on the support provided to core state institutions and civil society organisations, specifically: state institutions and oversight bodies, justice institutions, anti-corruption agencies, civil society and human rights institutions.

The objectives of the project were to enhance the capacity of local CSOs to contribute to development processes in Malaysia through governance, public accountability, and promotion of inclusive policy-making, with a view to contribute to poverty reduction and the attainment of sustainable development goals (SDGs).The specific objective was to strengthen the capacities of CSOs to participate in the country's development process, in the context of the EU CSOs Roadmap2 and for the benefit of CSOs in Malaysia in the context of SDGs.

The main objective of the mission was to provide technical assistance to the TAAF for the design / formulation of the new cooperation programme for the period 2021-2027 (regional envelope), as well as the identification and design of actions to strengthen the regional integration of the TAAF.

Specific objectives:

• OS1: To provide technical assistance required by the TAAF territory for the formulation/design of the Indian Ocean regional programme 2021-2027. The formulation will be based on the Multi-Annual Indicative Programme (MIP) presented by TAAF as Authorising Officer.
• OS2: Support the TAAF territory to identify and formulate joint actions and/or actions to be carried out in collaboration with other outermost regions and states in the region in order to strengthen regional integration.

The EU through its Delegation to Belarus and the European External Action Service Taskforce on Strategic Communication has been re-enforcing its communication in Belarus. In 2019 the EU plans will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the EaP which includes a range of different communication events in Brussels, EU member states and within the EaP countries. In addition to EaP wide programme, the EU Delegation to Belarus envisages on the occasion of the 10th anniversary a year-long country wide communication campaign to further boost the public understanding about the EU. The campaign will build on and complement ongoing communication activities and consists of different actions overseen and implemented in direct collaboration with the EU Delegation.

The global objective is to enhance understanding about EU policies and technical and financial cooperation among Belarusian citizens, national and local authorities, civil society organisations.

The specific objective is to develop and manage the implementation of a series of communication interventions that jointly constitute a country-wide campaign under the common brand of the EaP 10th anniversary.