The Evaluation of the European Union’s Regional Level Cooperation with Latin America (2009-2017) evaluated the design and the implementation of policies, strategies and sector programmes of the EU’s past and current development cooperation support to Latin America.
The main objectives of the evaluation were:

• to provide the relevant external co-operation services of the EU and the wider public with an overall independent assessment of the EU’s past and current development co-operation with LA; and
• to identify key lessons and produce recommendations in order to inform the responsible decision makers, notably in the EEAS and DG DEVCO , on how to improve the current and future EU strategies, programmes and actions.

The following key issues / evaluation criteria were assessed:

• the relevance and coherence of the EU’s regional-level development co-operation;
• the coherence of the co-operation strategy with the EU overall political framework;
• the coherence, complementarity and synergies between the regional programmes and the EU’s other development interventions in the region;
• the consistency between programming and implementation;
• the results of the EU’s regional development interventions, focusing on effectiveness, impact, sustainability and efficiency;
• the value added and leverage effect of the EU’s regional development interventions; and
• the 3Cs: the coordination and complementarity between the EU and other donors (focusing on EU Member States) and the coherence between the EU’s development co-operation interventions and other EU policies affecting the LA region, in particular interventions under the Partnership Instrument.

The evaluation included an in depth analysis of the contribution of EU support to development outcomes in the following sectors:

• Security and Peace,
• Environment and climate change,
• Social equity,
• Inclusive growth,
• Science, Technology and Higher Education.

The report is available on: https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/evaluation-eus-regional-development-cooperation-latin-america-2009-2017_en