The Sustainable Reintegration Support to Ethiopian Returnees from Europe and to Vulnerable Displaced Populations Affected by COVID-19 (SRSERE) project was designed to promote the sustainable reintegration of Ethiopian returnees from Europe and to contribute to the development of a national reintegration system for Ethiopia. It also sought to provide ARRA (now RRS) with the financial, human, and technical resources necessary to strengthen services and address the needs of vulnerable displaced populations in Ethiopia affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The evaluation assessed the evidence on the extent to which, and through which mechanisms, the EU intervention contributed to the achievement of the intended results, and shall identify the factors that enabled or constrained progress. The global objective of this evaluation are twofold:

• To provide the European Union, relevant stakeholders, and the wider public with an independent overall assessment of the project’s performance, paying particular attention to results achieved at different levels against the expected objectives, and to the underlying factors explaining these results; and
• To identify key lessons learned, conclusions, and recommendations in order to inform decision-makers on how to improve future interventions.

The specific objectives of this evaluation are:

• To draw lessons that can be replicated in other EU-funded interventions on return and reintegration in Ethiopia, including for vulnerable returnees from Europe.
• To ensure accountability for the use of EU resources in relation to the results of the project.
• To report transparently on EU support to the migrant reintegration programme in Ethiopia and to assess the state of national referral systems at country level.