Argentina

Global objective

The global objective of the project is to strengthen the EU’s engagement with Argentina on external impacts of EU Green Deal policies and regulatory frameworks, with emphasis on the regulation on deforestation and forest degradation, through the use of EU’s digital tools.

Specific objective(s)

• Engage with key stakeholders in Argentina to enhance understanding and alleviate concerns on the objective and content of the identified regulations, with emphasis on deforestation and forest degradation;
• Identify the necessary steps to either implement or support already existing effective traceability systems for Argentinian exports to the EU market, taking into account the deforestation and forest degradation regulation;
• Identify the most relevant space-based technologies and data, including their combination, to be used to support Argentina’s effort to comply with the zero-deforestation supply chain regulation;
• Promote the use of already available technological tools within the public and private sector alike, in particular Copernicus-based imagery and support the development of ad-hoc services through the Copernicus Regional centres in Chile and Panama or through the JRC and the European Union Space Programme Agency-EUSPA;
• Promote the development of pilot projects and use cases to demonstrate the potential of using satellite-based technologies to develop traceability systems facilitating compliance with the Regulation as well as in other areas such as environmental protection;
• Support outreach efforts towards the main stakeholders to increase awareness among the main private and public stakeholders over the tools offered by the EU in support of Argentina and promote the uptake of EU Space technologies;
• Support the dialogue on space-based services with institutions, companies and CSOs through the organisation of high-level events, the creation and animation of cross-sectoral networks and promote synergies with similar EU-funded actions.

The global objective of this contract was to contribute to boosting EU-Argentina cooperation in line with the EU´s political priorities, namely the Green Deal and Digitalisation.

The specific objective of this contract was to contribute to an efficient and effective formulation and implementation of the Team Europe Initiatives (TEIs) in Argentina.

The objective of this facility is to improve the overall quality of the NDICI Rapid Response and Peace, Stability and Conflict Prevention thematic areas by providing high quality research services.

We will provide the FPI with flexible and ad hoc research services and prepare literature reviews and rapid assistance reports in the thematic areas specified below.

The overall objective of the LCBA programme was to promote EU companies on low carbon and circular economy related technologies and services at regional scale in the Americas

The Action contributed to promote and defend EU economic interests, in particular SMEs and small-mid caps, on the regional stage and thus constituted a major operational action in support of an EU Economic

Diplomacy. It also contributed to the limitation and/or reduction of industrial GHG emissions in line with the commitments of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

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 Public Diplomacy Actions (EU Policy and Outreach Partnership in South America – Phase II and EU Policy and Outreach Partnership, Canada – Phase II), paying particular attention to its 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 Actions.

In particular, this final evaluation served to understand the performance of the Actions, their enabling factors and those hampering a proper delivery of results as to inform the planning of the future EU interventions in relation to EU Policy and Outreach Partnerships (EUPOPs) and Cultural Diplomacy. To this end, this final evaluation also looked at the package of Actions as a whole.

The evaluation assessed the Actions using the five standard DAC evaluation criteria, namely: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and perspectives of impact. In addition, the evaluation assessed two EU specific evaluation criteria:

• The EU added value (the extent to which the Actions bring additional benefits to what would have resulted from Member States' interventions only);
• The coherence of the Actions and approach with the EU Global Strategy, the new EU priorities for 2019-2024, as well as with other EU policies and Member State Actions.

Additionally, the evaluation team performed the following tasks:

• Identified type of activities that are frequently included across EUPOP Actions and facilitate the comparison across countries by highlighting the approach, the organisation costs (fees, incidentals) and summarised the key aspects in a table.
• Summarised some best practices per type of initiative/target audience/country in a booklet format.

The evaluation team furthermore considered whether gender, environment and climate change were mainstreamed; the relevant SDGs and their interlinkages were identified, and the extent to which they have been reflected in the implementation of the Actions, their governance and monitoring.

The global objective of the assignment is to support good governance, including the strengthening of civil society, and the promotion and protection of human rights in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela. The specific objective is to support the strengthening of EU grant beneficiaries’ capacities in the implementation of their projects.