Senegal

The Wehubit 2.0 programme is Enabel's flagship D4D/innovation programme working on Digital Social Innovations (DSIs). This independent evaluation assesses the performance of Wehubit 2.0 against its objectives, with a focus on relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability and impact. It follows Enabel’s evaluation standards and includes a field visit in Dakar (Senegal). The evaluation approach combines document review and stakeholder consultation to generate evidence-based findings and practical recommendations, and is implemented within the ToR’s fixed reporting milestones.

The programme Partnership for Employment and Strengthening of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises under the Special Initiative Jobs (SI Jobs) funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the German International Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ) aims to increase job-creating growth of African and European companies operating in Senegal. The programme operates throughout the country and is supervised by the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Cooperation (MEPC).

In order to achieve its ambitious objectives of improving the business climate for investment, strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and increasing the competitiveness of enterprises, the SI Jobs programme relies on three key levers.

• Output 1: Improving the investment conditions for African and European companies in Senegal through the identification and support of Senegalese projects with investment potential
• Output 2: Increasing the efficiency of selected SMEs
• Output 3: Improving the business ecosystem in the ICT and agribusiness sectors

This assignment is designed to contribute to the objectives of Output 2 and Output 3 of the SI-Jobs Senegal programme.

The service is articulated around 5 main tasks (See services provided). These tasks aim at providing technical assistance (TA) and capacity building to the Rural Economy and Management Centres (CGER) of the Senegal River Valley so that they can consolidate and Senegal River Valley so that they can consolidate and develop their missions, namely: to accompany the development of the companies, members of the system.

The contractor undertook the formulation of an Action Document (AD) to implement a regional program addressing illicit trafficking and transnational organized crime in selected West African and neighboring Central African countries. This included providing all necessary inputs and conducting comprehensive analysis, documentation review, fact-finding work, and consultations to propose possible options/scenarios for program focus and intervention logic. This work identified key strategic questions/issues to support informed discussions with relevant EU Delegations and other key stakeholders

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

• An overall independent assessment of the performance of selected CT-P/CVE measures funded by FPI.2 during the years 2017-2022, paying particular attention to its different levels of results measured against its expected objectives; and the reasons underpinning such results
• As a particular approach to regional actions, a specific case study shall be carried out to assess the regional framework for support to CT-P/CVE measures in the Asian context, managed by the Regional Team in Bangkok. It is expected that the present evaluation assesses the relevance, added value and success of developing a model for CT and P/CVE actions, respectively, which have been replicated in different countries/contexts in Asia/Pacific (in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives for CT; and in Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and Maldives for P/CVE). If deemed relevant, links can also be made to regional approaches in other RTs;
• Key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations in order to improve current and future interventions.

In particular, this evaluation will serve the contracting authority and other interested services to better understand the performance of the Intervention, its enabling factors and those hampering a proper delivery of results to inform the planning and implementation of current and future support to tackle CTP/CVE.

The main use of the results of the evaluation is expected to be

• To draw general lessons that can be used for the future approach to interventions in the sector
• To draw specific lessons that can be replicated in other similar interventions
• To draw specific lessons from the regional approaches, in particular the one applied by the Regional Team in Bangkok in terms of stocktaking, dynamics and replicability.

The main users of this evaluation will be the contracting authority, FPI.2, including its Regional Teams in Bangkok, Nairobi, Dakar, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (managed from Brussels). The Regional Team in Brasilia is less involved since they currently do not manage any CT-P/CVE projects.

The objective of the contract was the identification, development, implementation and monitoring of a trade facilitation project in Senegal. The project developed was titled “Automation of the Import Process for Agro-Industrial Products”. It was anchored within the Invest for Jobs program in Senegal implemented by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It was part of the operational framework of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (GATF), which contributed its expertise, lessons learned and best practices to the project.

The project focused on the digitalisation and automation of parts of the import process for pilot agroindustrial products with the aim to reduce the time and costs involved in importing these products. It also aimed to contribute to improving trade and investment conditions for African and European companies in Senegal, in the agro-industrial sector.

The result was the operationalization of the newly-developed digital platform for requesting import permits for agro-industrial products. The related outputs were the following:

1. Digital tools were designed to automate the import process for agro-industrial products and were integrated into the electronic single window.

2. Cross-border agencies and SMEs were enabled to use the new digitalised procedure for importing the pilot agro-industrial products.

3. The capacities of the public and private. stakeholders to coordinate and monitor the digitalised import processes for agro-industrial products were improved.

During contract implementation, the contract was expanded to include a second project focusing on technical support to the DPV (Direction de la Protection des Végétaux) for the implementation of an "E-Payment" solution in line with the digitalisation process set up by the DPV through the implementation of the ePhyto project, which aims to digitize the phytosanitary certificate as well as the payment of services rendered by this department.

The results of the contract were as follows:

• Reduction of time (7.9 hours per permit) for border / documentary compliance for imports.
• Reduction in the documentary and border compliance cost imposed on businesses for imports (savings of 18,301 F CFA per permit).
• Reduction of indirect supply chain costs for imports (reduced transit time, storage costs, demurrage, opertional costs related to personnel needed for the process, etc.).

The project was a catalyst for the digitalisation of the DPV's processes, extending the platform's functions to other services such as importer registration and approval, and the implementation of an electronic payment solution. Trade facilitation in agro-industry and the related sectors (services linked to agro-industry) will ensure greater gender equality and empower women, given that this sector employs more than half of the global female workforce.

The main objective of the mission is to carry out an interim and indpendent evaluation of SEN/031 and SEN/032

In this context, the mission should

• analyze whether planned activities to achieve expected results are on track;
• analyze the results achieved by the interventions in terms of capacity building (CB);
• analyze the management and monitoring of projects/programmes;
• analyze the interventions according to the evaluation criteria (relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability) and cross-cutting themes (governance for development, gender equality, environment and climate change).

The general objective of the service was to improve the degree of accountability and quality of certain EU-funded actions by providing the FPI Regional Team with follow-up and monitoring products for these actions and feedback on experience at the end of the project.

The specific objective of this contract was to assist the FPI Regional Team in the monitoring of certain projects financed under Article 3 of the IcSP in the Sahel region and the Lake Chad Basin.

The purpose of this evaluation is to provide an independent assessment and evidence on the contribution of EU external action support in aspects of the policy area of migration. Its specific objectives are the following:

• To assess in both qualitative and quantitative terms the relevance, conditions of implementation and performance of EU external action support to migration in the areas defined in the evaluation’s focal areas.
• To address coherence of the EU external action projects/programmes framed also in the international context (e.g. UN related and non-EU Member States) and achievement by the EU and the candidate countries for EU membership, the potential candidates and the partner countries of their respective commitments in these policy areas.
• To assess how EU external action support in the area of migration in the geographical focal areas, has changed in the aftermath of the 2015 structural shift associated with the so-called “refugee crisis.” The assessment shall also take into account complementarity of EU external action support with that of other donors and actors, including EU Member States.
• To assess whether the EU's policy and operational response to the external dimension on migration triggered new approaches and rendered programmes and actions more effective, targeted and efficient.

It furthermore aims to provide lessons learnt and recommendations for the improvement of the programming and implementation and shall:

• lead to the identification of conclusions based on objective, credible, reliable and valid findings;
• highlight lessons learnt;
• provide the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) with a set of operational, targeted and useful forward-looking recommendations.

The three overarching thematic focal areas examined by this evaluation are the following: Legal (labour) migration, Smuggling of Migrants (SoM), and Trafficking of Human Beings (THB).

Report available here: https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/sites/default/files/eval_eu_support_migration_area_-_final_report.zip

The general objective of the project, which this contract is part of, was as follows: to help accompany changes to civil society in the democratic strengthening of Senegal.

The specific objective of the contract was to coordinate the technical, administrative and financial aspects of the project on behalf of the NAO.

The "Programme to Support Citizens’ Civil Society Initiatives” was part of the EU’s “Agenda for Change” which placed great emphasis on democracy and good governance. It aimed to help accompany changes to civil society in the democratic strengthening of Senegal by consolidating the achievements of the 9th and 10th EDF through:

• greater citizen involvement in the governance of public action in key development sectors, taking into account the priorities of EU-Senegal cooperation.
• strengthening emerging movements for citizenship, building on urban solidarity networks in the suburban districts of Dakar.

Result 1: three months after kick-off, the logical framework was revised, a monitoring and evaluation system (including tools) was designed and set-up, a multiannual project plan was prepared and a 6-month activity work plan was submitted to the NAO and Head of Delegation for approval.

Result 2: progress reports on the implementation of the contracts (stocktake of the various achievements, constraints and perspectives of the results of the ongoing contracts and actions in the key development sectors in particular those of the 11th EDF) were presented to the steering committee twice a year, along with the dissemination of relevant information on the programme’s achievements.

Result 3: a monitoring and evaluation system (including administrative and financial monitoring of the contracts), was in place which is operational and updated regularly.

The objective of this Gender Facility II was to enhance IcSP projects effectiveness by strengthening IcSP staff capacities to take up and apply of gender-sensitive approaches in project design and implementation.

The project provided IcSP staff at Headquarters and EU Delegations/Regional Teams with training, guidance notes and technical assistance on practical ways to apply gender sensitivity at project design and implementation.

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).

L'objectif général était de contribuer à ce que le projet d'appui à la gestion des frontières atteigne ses résultats escomptés et participe à la réalisation des objectifs qu'il poursuit.

L'objectif spécifique était de fournir aux parties prenantes sénégalaises et européennes une évaluation indépendante et motivée sur la pertinence et la performance du projet à mi-parcours.

L'objectif général du projet était de:

• Réaliser l'évaluation finale du projet (en termes de pertinence, efficience, efficacité, impact et durabilité).

Les objectifs spécifiques étaient:

• Effectuer le bilan de la mise en œuvre du projet dans son ensemble, c’est-à-dire toutes les activités menées pendant les 5 ans ainsi que les résultats/objectifs atteints.
• Tirer les leçons apprises (bonnes et mauvaises), proposer des actions pour maintenir ou renforcer les avantages du projet et émettre des recommandations pour la formulation éventuelle d'un nouveau projet/programme.