The principal objectives of the evaluation were to present to the European Union’s external cooperation services, to the partner government and, where relevant, to the general public:

• an overall, totally independent assessment of the results of the intervention of PAI II with a particular focus on the project’s results in relation to its objectives;
• the principal lessons learnt from the intervention and recommendations in order to improve the ongoing measures as well as future actions.

Besides gaining knowledge about the assessment of the results and of the experiences made throughout the implementation of the four components of PAI II, the final evaluation of the project under the 11th EDF was particularly supposed to guide the continuation of EU support for state consolidation. These new support activities, whichwere foreseen and formulated in a way differing from the implementing modalities of PAI II, were supposed to build on the achievements of PAI II in terms of realized activities as well as in terms of managing the assistance.