The main purpose of this evaluation was to provide the relevant EU services and interested stakeholders with the following information:

• a global and independent analysis of the performance of the State Consolidation Programme and of the Associative World, paying particular attention to its intermediate results, in comparison with the expected objectives, and the reasons supporting these results;
• lessons learned, conclusions and associated recommendations, so as to improve, where appropriate, present and future actions.

In particular, this evaluation served to understand the performance of the action, its determining factors and those which have hindered the achievement of results, so as to adapt its design or implementation arrangements to serve as a basis for planning future EU actions and interventions in the same sector.
With regard to the Local Governance component, the recent establishment of 117 municipalities implies that this evaluation identified the adaptations already made by the project to this new reality, the obstacles to these adaptations, and proposed adaptations to better accompany the process of decentralization which is accelerating remarkably since the second quarter of 2019.
The main users of this evaluation are: the EU Delegation in Togo, the Ministry of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Local Communities (MATDCL), the Ministry of Planning, Development and Development Cooperation (MPCD), the competent services of the German Embassy, the GIZ and the members of the Technical Monitoring Committee.
The overall objective of the programme was to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the National Development Programme through support for the consolidation of local governance and greater participation of civil society, particularly autonomous women's organizations, in the definition, implementation and monitoring of development policies.