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The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA) commissions regularly meta-evaluations in order to synthesise the findings, explore the issues and assess the reliability of the decentralised evaluations.
The assessment included all decentralised evaluations completed in 2018-2020 and assessed i) the quality of the decentralized evaluations under consideration, ii) the overal quality of development coperation and its results based on the decentralized evaluations, iii) the utility and usefulness of the decentralized evaluations.

Global objective
The global objective of this assignment was enhancing Chinese CSO's capacities to contribute to governance and development processes in China.
Specific objective(s)

• Improve local CSOs capacity for better project management, including enhanced financial and contractual management capacities and standard procedures.
• Improve local CSOs' understanding of thematic/conceptual content in the field of social sectors, with focus on results and emphasis on the most vulnerable beneficiaries
• All EU funded actions apply rights-based approach and mainstream crosscutting objectives of the EU e.g. gender equality, youth, persons with disability, indigenous peoples, environment and climate change a.o.

The targeted CSOs were local Chinese CSOs, both those that have worked under EU-funded grant contract, but also those that never were contracted but may show interest.

The overall objective of the project was to increase international competitiveness of private sector of Montenegro with particular focus on SMEs.

Technical assessment of concept notes in accordance with guidelines provided by the Contracting Authority, based on the published evaluation grids.

Assisted the Government of Serbia to improve efficiency, accountability and transparency of public administration and the quality of service delivery and management of public finances, in line with the General and Specific for the release of fixed and variable tranches as set out in the Annex 1 a of the Financing Agreement for the Sector Reform Contract for Public Administration Reform and providing recommendations to the EU Delegation to the Republic of Serbia concerning the value of the tranches to be disbursed.

The evaluation of Danish Sustainable Infrastucture Finance (DSIF) Programme served learning and accountability purposes for both the Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU)/DSIF and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). This evaluation had two objectives. The first objective was to assess DSIF’s relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, development impact and sustainability as well as commercial outcomes through its investments in developing countries. The evaluation applied the updated OECD/DAC evaluation criteria to DSIF investment projects. It involved an analysis of the project portfolio in terms of geographies, sectors and types of projects and funds, and the development of the portfolio composition over time.

The overall objective of the project of this contract was to increase awareness and visibility of the EU-Mozambique cooperation partnership to the wider public, and improve the understanding of EU cooperation policies and partnership with Mozambique.

This independant evaluation of WFP Country Strategic Plan in Bolivia assessed the strategic positionning, added-value and results of WFP operations in the Country from 2018 to 2021.
The evaluation served the double purpose of accountability (performance and result assessment) and learning (why certain results occurred or not, lessons and evidence for decision-making about a potential scale-up). It is envisioned that the evaluation will inform the design of the new CSP for Bolivia, which is scheduled for Executive Board consideration in November 2022.

The global objective of the project was to raise awareness about the comprehension of the EU and its support and actions in Ivory Coast, particularly targeting the ivorian audience.

The general objective of the mission was to provide the Delegation of the European Union (DUE) in Tunisia with a geo-localized information management and visualization tool on the activities of cooperation projects, and in particular their results and performance indicators, in order to improve the visibility of EU projects in Tunisia.