The objective of the FWC was to provide, via individual assignments defined and contracted through Specific Contracts, short-term technical assistance which can be mobilised at very short notice (normally within about 3 weeks). The quality of this technical assistance had to be guaranteed by the selected Framework Contractors disposing of the appropriate internal or external technical skills. The technical assistance was provided for the exclusive benefit of those receiving the external aid. Technical assistance was required at any stage of the project cycle (except programmes financial audits) and covered any sector(s) within a given technical field.
The beneficiaries of the short-term technical assistance available via this Framework Contract (FWC) were exclusively third countries benefiting from the Commission’s External aid programmes. The FWC had no overall contractual amount or maximum budget. Each individual assignment fixed its implementation duration, not exceeding two years, as well as the contractual amount which not exceeded € 299,999.
A selection of short-term technical assistance provided:

• 12/2009-03/2010: Nicaragua - Evaluation of the "Programa de Reducción de la Vulnerabilidad y Degradación Ambiental (PREVDA)" (102,636 €); (100% by Particip)
• 12/2009-12/2010: Ukraine - Support to Urkaine to implement the Danube and Ramsar Convention (196,700 €); (100% by Particip)
• 12/2009-05/2010: Ecuador - International Technical Assistance Mission to the National Water Dialogue (136,710 €); (41,07% by Particip)
• 04/2010-06/2010 Ethiopia - Mid-term Evaluation of the AMESD Programme (67,034 €); (67% by Particip)
• 04/2010-07/2010 Sudan - Technical assistance to prepare an updated negotiated 5-year Management and Utilization Plan for Dinder National Park (196,009 €); (100 % by Particip)
• 09/2010 - 12/2010: Sierra Leone - Freetown Development Plan: Preparation of a Resettlement Plan in the Kroo Bay area (141,731 €); (100 % by Particip)
• 10/2010 - 04/2011: South Africa - Studies related to EU-South Africa High Level Panel and Workshop on Green Growth (110,180€); (100 % by Particip)
• 04/2011 - 03/2012 Preparation of a regional climate change project under the Regional Action Programme ENPI South 2011 (199,941€); (100% by Particip)
• 03/2012 - 10/2012 Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the National Sugar Adaptation Strategy for Kenya (177,904€); (51% by Particip)
• 04/2012 - 05/2013 Assessment and preparation of contracts for the 2nd Call for Proposals for African Union Research Grants (130,259€); (100% by Particip)
• 01/2014 - 02/2016 Assistance to development of sector environment and climate change strategy 2014-2020 (98,964 €) (100% by Particip)