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The overall objective is to contribute to a more capable and responsive public sector towards citizens’ needs and businesses as well as to advance and respond to demands of EU integration processes.
The specific objective is to improve public administration to become more efficient, accountable, transparent, inclusive and effective at national and local level.

The contract is expected to provide high-quality technical expertise/support to the Royal Government of Bhutan for strengthening local governance, decentralisation and gender mainstreaming in Bhutan under the ‘Strengthening inclusive local governance and decentralisation in Bhutan' budget support programme. This programme, including capacity building actions, is expected to improve implementation of the local governance and decentralisation sectors, through supporting civil society and improving gender equality and women empowerment, environment, climate, disaster risk reduction, livelihoods, democracy and poverty.

The overall objective (Impact) to which this action contributes is to strengthen democratic foundations
of the target countries as part of the ADD, by fostering independent and pluralistic media, access to
information and the fight against disinformation.
The specific objectives (Outcomes) of this contract are as follows:

• Improved legal protection frameworks and mechanisms for journalists, especially women, and

independent media;

• Strengthened capacities of governmental bodies, civil society organisations and media actors to

detect and respond to disinformation campaigns.

• Strengthened relations and collaborations between different stakeholders so as to maximise impact of

sustainability of results.

Assistance and technical support concerning the LIFE Programme, a funding instrument of the EC which encompasses: the monitoring and ex post evaluations of projects co-financed by LIFE, support to the LIFE Units of DG ENV and CINEA in technical and financial terms, support to the beneficiaries and advising them on reporting procedures, standards, presentation of project results and dissemination actions, presentation and dissemination of the LIFE programme and project results.

The European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) Cross-border cooperation (CBC) and Interreg NEXT (acronym for: “Neighbourhood External”) programmes extend the principles of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) among Member States within the EU, better known as Interreg, to territorial cooperation between Member States and the Partner countries and territories in the Neighbourhood area. They cover both cross-border cooperation (CBC) on land borders and sea crossing as well as transnational cooperation programmes covering sea basins.
Cross-border and transnational (sea-basin) cooperation along EU’s external land and sea borders is a unique form of cooperation between EU MS and neighbouring countries. It provides the framework and opportunities for enhanced people-to-people contacts, cooperation and exchanges essentially at regional and local level, and involves a broad range of actors (local authorities, NGOs, Civil Society Organisations (CSO), universities and other stakeholders).

The overall objective (impact) to the achievement to which this action contributes is the following:
Contribute to the promotion of the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity and sustainable and equitable socio-economic development in Burundi.

The main scope of the Third Party Monitoring and Evaluation (TPME) is to monitor the execution
& implementation of EU funded projects in Somalia. The contractor will carry out monitoring missions in all the regions of Somalia. The contractor will be expected to conduct field visits in all the locations where the project activities are being implemented. The contractor will identify and describe suitable methods for monitoring taking into consideration the security situation and political context.

This public contract consists of the provision of evaluation expertise services by means of a framework contract. The following type of assignments are included in this framework contract:

• Intervention-level evaluation;
• Country, regional or thematic portfolio evaluations;
• Cross-cutting evaluations in a specific theme, sector or approach implemented by Enabel

The overall objective (Impact) to which this action contributes is to support third countries to build up their capacity to carry out RPBA/PDNA/PRNA, through provision of technical expertise. Various activities are foreseen, including deployment of experts in RPBA/PDNA/PRNA missions, and provision of training and capacity building activities to national authorities and regional/international organizations, tripartite training events, as well as information sessions for EU entities.

The overall objective of this project is to contribute to strengthening the quality of EU-India policy
dialogue outcomes in line with the EU-India Strategic Partnership (Roadmap 2025), the EU Global
Gateway Strategy, the EU-India Trade and Technology Council, bilateral Summit conclusions,
and other relevant joint agreements and commitments.