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The overall objective is to contribute to a more capable and responsive public sector towards citizens’ needs and businesses as well as to advance and respond to demands of EU integration processes.
The specific objective is to improve public administration to become more efficient, accountable, transparent, inclusive and effective at national and local level.

The contract is expected to provide high-quality technical expertise/support to the Royal Government of Bhutan for strengthening local governance, decentralisation and gender mainstreaming in Bhutan under the ‘Strengthening inclusive local governance and decentralisation in Bhutan' budget support programme. This programme, including capacity building actions, is expected to improve implementation of the local governance and decentralisation sectors, through supporting civil society and improving gender equality and women empowerment, environment, climate, disaster risk reduction, livelihoods, democracy and poverty.

The overall objective (Impact) to which this action contributes is to strengthen democratic foundations
of the target countries as part of the ADD, by fostering independent and pluralistic media, access to
information and the fight against disinformation.
The specific objectives (Outcomes) of this contract are as follows:

• Improved legal protection frameworks and mechanisms for journalists, especially women, and

independent media;

• Strengthened capacities of governmental bodies, civil society organisations and media actors to

detect and respond to disinformation campaigns.

• Strengthened relations and collaborations between different stakeholders so as to maximise impact of

sustainability of results.

The overall objective (Impact) to which this action contributes is to assist the Government of Serbia to improve efficiency, accountability and transparency of public administration and the quality of service delivery and management of public finances.

Assistance and technical support concerning the LIFE Programme, a funding instrument of the EC which encompasses: the monitoring and ex post evaluations of projects co-financed by LIFE, support to the LIFE Units of DG ENV and CINEA in technical and financial terms, support to the beneficiaries and advising them on reporting procedures, standards, presentation of project results and dissemination actions, presentation and dissemination of the LIFE programme and project results.

The European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) Cross-border cooperation (CBC) and Interreg NEXT (acronym for: “Neighbourhood External”) programmes extend the principles of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) among Member States within the EU, better known as Interreg, to territorial cooperation between Member States and the Partner countries and territories in the Neighbourhood area. They cover both cross-border cooperation (CBC) on land borders and sea crossing as well as transnational cooperation programmes covering sea basins.
Cross-border and transnational (sea-basin) cooperation along EU’s external land and sea borders is a unique form of cooperation between EU MS and neighbouring countries. It provides the framework and opportunities for enhanced people-to-people contacts, cooperation and exchanges essentially at regional and local level, and involves a broad range of actors (local authorities, NGOs, Civil Society Organisations (CSO), universities and other stakeholders).

The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to improve access to basic services and food security of Select Communities in the Republic of the Sudan. The project is designed to complement the current humanitarian aid to Sudan by laying a foundation for medium and longer term development support in areas with high concentration of IDPs. It builds for the future of Sudan by restoring access to basic services and food, protecting human capital, and enhancing communities’ resilience using a bottom-up approach. It is sequenced to first meet immediate basic service needs of vulnerable groups in areas of high IDP concentration and relative safety and accessibility, followed by community-led planning and implementation of medium-term basic services.
Project M&E efforts will be supplemented by BSMA to ensure WB oversight on the ground, given limited access for Bank personnel. To support the WB to fulfil its monitoring and supervision obligations in areas where its staff are unable to access project sites, the Bank engaged with BSMA with the objective of providing a monitoring layer to complement the monitoring activities of the Implementing Entities and ensure that Bank funds are utilized for the purposes specified in the grant agreement and project documents.

The overall objective (impact) to the achievement to which this action contributes is the following:
Contribute to the promotion of the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity and sustainable and equitable socio-economic development in Burundi.

The aim of this contract is to provide technical assistance services to strengthen the partnership between the EU and the DRC through actions designed to support and complement interventions carried out under European programs in the DRC. This is a cross-cutting, flexible action that will take the form of various activities to be defined during the implementation of the partnership, such as the recruitment of experts, the provision of technical services, the organization of events and training, and the carrying out of studies and monitoring missions.

The main scope of the Third Party Monitoring and Evaluation (TPME) is to monitor the execution
& implementation of EU funded projects in Somalia. The contractor will carry out monitoring missions in all the regions of Somalia. The contractor will be expected to conduct field visits in all the locations where the project activities are being implemented. The contractor will identify and describe suitable methods for monitoring taking into consideration the security situation and political context.