The framework contract EVA 2020 – Strategic evaluations supported the European Commission services in conducting complex, external, and evidence-based evaluations of EU external action in partner countries, regions worldwide, and globally.
Strategic evaluations encompassed various scopes, including:

• Country or Regional evaluations
• Thematic and Sectoral evaluations
• Evaluations of EU external financing instruments

Budget support evaluations

• Evaluations of implementing modalities (e.g. blending, guarantee funds)

These evaluations are considered complex because they comprehensively analyse EU policies, strategies, and actions from design to implementation, assessing the combined results of both spending activities (such as a portfolio of interventions (projects and programmes) and non-spending activities (such as policy dialogues) over a significant period, typically at least four years.
Evaluations were carried out through individual assignments defined and contracted through ‘Specific Contracts’. Evaluations implemented by the Particip-led consortium include:

• Evaluation of the EU's support to climate change and environment in Enlargement and Neighbourhood regions (2014-2020)
• Evaluation of the European Union support to Rule of Law and anticorruption in Partner Countries (2010-2021)
• Evaluation of the European Union Support to Sustainable Agri-Food Systems in partner countries (2014-2020)
• Evaluation of the implementation of EU Blending in the EU Neighbourhood and Western Balkans regions in (2015-2021)
• Evaluation of the European Union Bêkou Trust Fund (2014-2023)
• Evaluation of EU support to connectivity in the enlargement and neighbourhood regions (2014-2022)
• Mid-term evaluation of the implementation of the EU Gender Action Plan III (2021-2025)
• Evaluation of EU support to youth in the Enlargement and Neighbourhood regions (2014-2021)
• Evaluation of the EU external financing instruments for the 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 multiannual financial frameworks
• Evaluation of the EU support to migration (Western Balkans only)
• Evaluation of EU support to IPA Roma inclusion projects (2016-2023)
• Global case study on the large ocean and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) group of countries in support of the strategic joint evaluation of the collective international development and humanitarian assistance response to the Covid-19 pandemic
• Evaluation of European Union's Cooperation with North Macedonia (2014-2020)
• Evaluation of the European Union’s cooperation with Tajikistan (2014-2020)
• Evaluation of EU's Cooperation with Georgia (2014-2020)
• Evaluation of the European Union cooperation with the Federal Republic of Somalia (2014-2021)
• Evaluation of European Union's Cooperation with Papua New Guinea (2014-2021)
• Evaluation of the EU cooperation with Ukraine (2014-2020)
• Evaluation of Budget Support in Albania (2014-2020)
• Evaluation of the European Union cooperation with Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (2014-2021)
• Evaluation of the EU Budget Support Operations in Jamaica (2008-2021)