Evaluation of the EU Development Cooperation with the Federal Republic of Nigeria

With this Evaluation the EU intends to reflect on its cooperation approach with Nigeria in the last ten years. This includes the thematic and geographical focus as well as the choice of implementing partners, EU interests and the objectives of the cooperation with Nigeria, from the point of view of both strategic partnerships and jointly developed policies, and the positioning of the EU and Member States in the current political and socioeconomic context of Nigeria.

As per the Terms of Reference (ToR), the purpose of the evaluation is:

• To provide the EU Delegation in Nigeria, the relevant INTPA units and other concerned services with ‘lessons learnt’ and with recommendations in order to inform more evidence- based intervention identification, design and implementation in the future; and
• To identify ‘opportunities’ within the general shift towards ‘Global Gateway’ as a strategic programming direction under the current MIP areas with potential for developing strategic partnership for EU-Nigeria mutual interest, and good practices to develop orientations and guidelines for the identification and implementation of current as well as future cooperation programmes.

The Evaluation is commissioned for accountability purposes (the last country evaluation was conducted in 2010), and at the same time has a strong learning and forward-looking element.

The Evaluation covers interventions falling under the EU’s Global Gateway (GG) policy and priority sectors identified in the relevant INTPA programming documents: i) Sustainable Economic

Development covering digitalisation, climate-smart agriculture, energy efficiency (in the

11th EDF: Sustainable energy and access to electricity); (ii) Peace and Security including good governance and migration (in the 11th EDF: Rule of Law, governance and democracy); (iii)

Human Development including health and education, and youth empowerment (in the 11th

EDF: Health, nutrition and resilience); gender equality and HRBA as crosscutting issues.