The evaluation will assess the Action using the five standard DAC evaluation criteria, namely: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact. In addition, the evaluation will assess two EU specific evaluation criteria:

• the EU added value (the extent to which the Action adds benefits to what would have resulted from Member States' interventions only);
• the coherence of the Action itself, with the EU strategy in the Pacific and with other EU policies and Member State Actions.

And in addition:

• The matching of the needs of national and local partners;
• The materialisation of the expected results (or perhaps only some of them) and their facilitating and contrasting factors;
• The performance of the management and its capacity to adapt to changing conditions;
• The governing mechanisms of the Action;
• The contribution to SDGs (4,5,13).