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The global objective of the assignment is to support the formulation/design of a regional programme to combat transnational organized and illicit trafficking crime in wider West Africa.

The Evaluation Management Services (EMS) was a service contract which consisted in the implementation of strategic level and policy evaluations, meta-evaluations and syntheses of centralized and decentralized evaluations for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA). It corresponded to a model that is based on evaluation services commissioned to one service provider rather than outsourcing the implementation of each evaluation as a single assignment.

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

• an overall independent assessment of the past performance of the IURC Central Services project, paying particular attention to its intermediate 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.

The overall objective of the evaluation mission is to assess the performance of the public financial management system using the PEFA methodology and the different developments since the previous evaluation in 2016.

The purpose of the meta-analysis of the 2021-2024 Country Programmes in Finland's 10 partner countries was to support the achievement of Finland’s development policy objectives in the partner countries, and to provide information for the further development of the Country Programmes and their implementation at the strategic level. The meta-analysis and its recommendations supported the regional departments in the programming of the next generation of Country Programmes, and in their subsequent management.

The final evaluation of the project "Boosting Rural and Rurban Economy in Times of Crisis and Beyond" (BOOST) was commissioned by WFP Nicaragua. BOOST ran from 2018 to 2024 and aimed to promote sustainable and resilient agri-food systems in five departments and one autonomous region of Nicaragua. The European Union was the main donor of the project.
The evaluation provided an independent assessment of all project activities in the entire implementation period of BOOST. It adopted a theory-based approach using the Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol (QuIP). Data were collected during a two-week field mission and remotely, including interviews with national and local key informants, focus group discussions with beneficiaries, field visits, a comprehensive document review, and analysis of existing M&E data.

With a view to supporting the programming in the Horn of Africa region, and in particularly in support of resilience-building components of the EU’s external action, the overall objective of a Resilience Assessment and Roadmap creation was to:
a) identify,
b) address,
c) and take action
on structural causes of fragility and potential shocks, as well as opportunities for resilience building in the Horn of Africa region; operationalizing, improving and strengthening EU resilience-focused interventions and providing a vision on what specific strategic, policy, programming, design and implementation changes are needed to strengthen resilience in a specific context.
To this end, the expert(s), in conjunction with INTPA G5, provided technical assistance to Delegations to conduct resilience assessments and develop resilience roadmaps, highlighting which resilience dimensions should be targeted and how to best target them.

This evaluation had two overarching objectives. Firstly, it aimed to provide the relevant external cooperation services of the European Union (EU) and the broader public with an independent assessment of the EU's past and current cooperation with the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal from 2014 to 2021. Secondly, it sought to identify key lessons and produce recommendations to inform responsible decision-makers, particularly in the European External Action Service and the Directorate-General for International Partnerships, on how to improve the EU’s current and future strategies, programmes, and actions.

The European Union Trust Fund (EUTF) for Africa provides a coordinated response by the European Union, its Member States and other donors to multiple crises affecting the most vulnerable and marginalised people in the Sahel and Lake Chad, the Horn of Africa, and the North of Africa. This evaluation will focus specifically on protection interventions financed by the EUTF North of Africa window in Libya.

The general objective was to provide the relevant Commission services and other key stakeholders with an independent assessment of the contribution of blending to the achievement of EU policy objectives in the EU Neighbourhood and Western Balkans regions. The evaluation aimed to: i) provide an assessment in both qualitative and quantitative terms on the relevance, conditions of implementation, and performance of Blending as an aid modality, particularly its efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, impact, EU added value, and cooperation potential; ii) identify lessons learnt/best practices as well as recommendations on the use of blending in EU external action.