The overall aim of the project is to support DG INTPA and DG NEAR in improving quality of performance, institutional learning and accountability for a better targeted and more sustainable impact of EU external action.
The project comprises 7 different services:
1: provide methodological support to EU staff to plan, design, implement, monitor, and evaluate EU interventions in a coherent, efficient and effective manner.
2: assist requests of methodological screening and quality assurance related to programming and design.
3: assist to the enhancement of the internal monitoring and results reporting systems of the Commission services.
4: support and contribute to the revision of the results-oriented monitoring (ROM) system and provide operational and coordination support to the ROM contracts.
5: assist Commission staff in their mandate to steer, coordinate, monitor and report on evaluation activities.
6: support the two units of the DGs to enhance the quality of EU external action by ensuring the quality of the different evaluation deliverables.
7: provide methodological support on knowledge management for INTPA.D4 and NEAR.A4 by developing a set of tools and techniques and responding to requests of support.
Main staff provided for 1 year of contract:

• Key Expert 1 (Team Leader): 220 WD
• Key Expert 2: 220 WD
• Key Expert 3: 220 WD
• Key Expert 4: 220 WD
• SNKE: 1650
• MNKE: 950
• JNKE: 850
• ST Pool of experts: 1309