The main objectives of this evaluation were to provide the relevant services of the European Union, the interested stakeholders and the wider public with:

• an overal independent assessment of the past performance of the programme Support ot the Community Courts of Eritrea (FED/2009/21604);
• key lessons and recommendations in order to improve current (if relevant) and future actions.

In particular, this evaluation served to understand the performance of the action, its enabling factors and those that hampered a proper delivery of results as to inform the planning of the future EU interventions and Actions in the same sector.