The overall objective of the EU program to support the banana sector, of which this project was a part, is to contribute to the fight against poverty by supporting the competitiveness of the dessert banana sector in Côte d'Ivoire.
In this context the overall objective of the mid-term evaluation of the BAM program was to identify the main lessons learnt from the implementation at the current stage, to make recommendations of improvement and to make suggestions to assist future decisions on the program of the Banana Accompanying Measures in Côte d'Ivoire.
After the D+3 and the contractual limit of the funds of the Financing Agreement 22-548, the evaluation was to take stock of:
i) the commitment rates
ii) the institutional set-up
iii) the choice of modalities of implementation in order to draw immediate lessons learnt and possibly recommendations for future conventions.
In this context, the specific objective of this contract was to evaluate the modalities of implementation and to compare the results achieved with the objectives of each contract also at the level of the Financing Agreement for the various activities implemented in the framework of the financing agreement BAN / 22548, and to make suggestions for an optimal implementation of the remainder of the program.