Evaluation of IcSP actions supporting the Colombian Peace Process

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 four Financing Decisions including its Actions, paying particular attention to its ‘intermediate’ and ‘final’ results measured against its objectives
• key lessons and recommendations in order to improve current and future Actions

In particular, this evaluation served to assess the contribution made by the IcSP (financial and political) to the EU's support to the Colombian Peace Process from 2015 until now, i.e. nearly two years after the signature of the final Peace Agreement, being the first two years critical for advancing in the implementation and contributing to sealing and protecting the gains achieved. The period of the evaluation therefore covered both the negotiation phase at its most difficult point in time and included the delicate period from the signature of the first Peace Agreement (26th September 2016), until the signature and ratification of the Final Agreement (24th November 2016) and its implementation.

The evaluation served to measure the impact, timeliness and pertinence of the IcSP interventions and their results.