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The global objective was to provide technical assistance to Government of South Africa, and in particular the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, to analyze the existing data sources and methods of data collection on incidents of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in the public and private sector. Related intolerance includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender and disability.
Data refers to any piece of information in numerical or any other form.
The requested technical assistance also assisted the government of South Africa with statistical information in the design of country responses to meet its obligations in terms of the DOPA, the ICERD and other international Human Rights treaties referring to discriminations.

Global objective: Concept Notes and Full Application proposals for the Restricted Call for Proposals for IPA II 2014 Grant Scheme ”Strengthening the impact of the Civil Society in effective Justice Sector reforms” were selected
Specific objective: independent technical expertise as an assessor were provided to increase efficiency in the evaluation of project proposals, according to the rules of the Practical Guide to Contract procedures for EU external actions - PRAG.

The overall objective of the assignment was to assist the Government of Swaziland in the reduction of poverty in Swaziland.
The purpose of the project was to improve the speed, the quality and the amount of the EU support to Swaziland. The programme aimed to develop the capacity of the NAO support unit to enable the NAO to effectively and efficiently perform and fulfil all of the responsibilities as set out in Article 35 of Annex IV of the Cotonou Agreement. The project also developped the capacity of line ministries, parastatals and NSAs to manage EDF/EU funds and strengthen their capability to design and implement policies, as well as to optimise absorption capacity.

The overall objective of this assignment was to design an action plan to support and assist the implementation of the communication strategy elaborated by DEVCO Civil Society and Foundations unit.
The specific objectives were to raise awareness, promote and increase knowledge and visibility of the Civil Society and Foundations' policy and initiatives with, amongst others, its Framework Partnership Agreement signatories, EU institutions, development actors and the general audience in the EU and partner countries through the design and production of multimedia, visibility and other materials as required.

Development of a regional support programme, enhancing and consolidating regional cooperation on
sustainable trade of legal wood and advancing the FLEGT agenda in VPA (Voluntary Partnership Agreements) and non-VPA countries in the Asian region (Indicative amount EUR 5.5 million)

In order to make better use of existing development evaluations, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) had initiated the production of so-called Country Evaluation Briefs (CEBs) and Evaluation Portraits (EPs) for its twelve focus countries.
This assignment included six such CEBs and EPs, namely for Ethiopia, Haiti, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal and Tanzania. The objective of the assignment was to collect, collate and systematically present findings from existing development evaluations and present them in a concise and reader-friendly way.

Through the 'Capacity Building for Results Facility (CBR) Services of an HR Firm' contract, Particip was ensuring merit-based recruitment for CBR positions and smooth continuation of RQA for CBR positions.
Objectives of the Assignment were:

• Ensuring merit-based recruitment for CBR positions
• Ensuring smooth continuation of RQA for CBR positions
• Review and improve recruitment processes and procedures for CBR
• Prevention of financial loss to GoIRA (need to pay back salaries to ARTF in case of mis-recruitments)

The overall objective of the assignment is to further strengthen the capacity of the staff of the EC
(including EUDs) and of the ENI partner countries involved in the design, monitoring and
implementation of EU assistance in line with sector focused approach and results based
management principles.
The specific objectives are to:
1. Increase the capacity of EC and ENI partner countries' staff to design, implement and monitor programmes/ actions in line with sector focused approach;
2. Improve the quality of actions/interventions and the achievement and reporting of results;
3. Increase the capacity of EC and ENI partner countries' staff to design and manage
evaluations.
Staff provided:
5 Short-term Experts - 246 wd

The global objective of this assignment is to support the EU in the implementation of its policies and programmes in health aid and the adaptations and adjustments required under its related policies (in particular regarding, but not limited to, The Agenda for Change, The Future of Budget Support, The EU Role in Global Health and the forthcoming Programme for Action on Global Health).
To achieve this global objective, these advisory services will also contribute to strengthen in a durable way the capacity of the EC staff in EU Delegations involved in health aid.
The envisaged support is to be provided through external advisory service (AS) of appropriate profile, technical and policy qualification and solid experience in the implementation of health aid. The AS will be provided primarily to the European Commission services (DEVCO headquarters and EU Delegations [EUD]) and – to a limited extent – to beneficiary countries institutions in the attainment and monitoring of the aforementioned objectives on global health.

The contract will help to implement the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey's communication support programme with the purpose of increasing the public knowledge and understanding of the EU during the accession negotiation process and explaining implications of EU accession in Turkey.