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The overall objective of the proposed technical assistance is to enhance the OCTs’ capacities for political and policy dialogue with the EU and to support OCTA on the management of horizontal issues.

The specific objectives of the action are to ensure a good coordination and dialogue among the OCTs, the Member States to which they are linked and the European Commission, through the annual OCTs-EU Forum, the quarterly tripartite meetings (MS/OCT/COM), Working Parties meetings (if relevant), the OCTA Ministerial Conference and OCTA ExCo meetings and other ad-hoc meetings. Furthermore, the assistance shall ensure that OCTs-EU relations in horizontal issues and programs, trade matters and the mainstreaming of transversal priorities are duly taken into consideration.

++The overall objective (Impact) to which this action contributes is :++

• To provide monitoring and evaluation services to assess the results achieved through the EU’s development cooperation, and to provide support on communication and visibility in line with the Delegation’s communication strategy.

++ The specific objectives of this contract are as follows:++

• 1. To conduct results-oriented monitoring of EU-funded projects in Iraq and to implement a results-oriented monitoring based on innovative approaches in the field that allows improving the steering and delivery of programmes to Iraq.
• 2. To provide an assessment of achievements, the quality and the results of interventions based on evaluation approaches adapted to the specific intervention under observation in order to deliver evaluations that allow for institutional learning and improved programming cycles.
• 3. To disseminate information about the EU’s engagement in Iraq and notably its cooperation activity in an accessible manner with a focus on communicating EU values and EU results, in particular to stakeholders in Iraq and the general population.

++There are 3 main components each associated to a results that the project will aim to achieve++

• Component 1: Results-oriented monitoring of EU-Funded projects in IRAQ
• R-1: Provided a results-oriented assessment of ongoing operations
• Component 2: Evaluations of the EU’s cooperation projects in Iraq

R-2: Provided evaluations of achievements, the quality and the results of interventions based on evaluation approaches adapted to the intervention under observation

• Component 3: Communication of EU engagement in Iraq

R-3: Disseminated information about EU engagement in Iraq and notably cooperation initiatives and projects (including results) in an accessible manner with a focus on communicating results across various platforms and towards various audiences

The evaluation of the Danish Energy Partnership Programmes (DEPP) covers more than a decade of bilateral cooperation supporting the green energy transition in emerging economies. Since 2012, these programmes have engaged Denmark with key partner countries such as China, India, South Africa, Vietnam, and Mexico, whose future energy choices will significantly shape global emissions. DEPP provides technical assistance in long-term energy planning, renewable energy integration, energy efficiency, and the development of regulatory frameworks.

The overall objective of the evaluation is to strengthen accountability and learning by documenting results and assessing DEPP’s contributions to capacity strengthening, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. More specifically, the study will analyse the programmes’ relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability. By doing so, it will generate lessons learned and actionable recommendations to inform the design and implementation of future programmes, consolidating Denmark’s role as a trusted partner in advancing global climate and energy goals

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ECRP-II’s Project development objective is to improve access to services, strengthen flood resilience, and enhance institutional capacity for local service delivery and integrated disaster risk management at the national and sub-national levels.

ECRP-II comprises five components designed to improve service delivery, flood resilience, and institutional capacity in the more vulnerable areas in South Sudan. The five components of ECRP-II are as follows:

• Component 1. Infrastructure and Services for Community Resilience (US$ 113 million): This component will support eligible investments in community-level infrastructure and services as well as physical investments for flood risk reduction. There are three sub-components that focus on eligible sub-project priorities, flood risk reduction investments, and operations and maintenance.
• Component 2. Institution Strengthening (US$10 million): This component supports the participatory planning process for the identification of subprojects to be financed under Component 1, monitoring of the construction of subprojects, and capacity-building of relevant national and sub-national institutions. Three sub-components focus on community institution strengthening, county government strengthening, and national and state government strengthening.
• Component 3. Emergency Flood Response (US$14 million): This component will support targeted emergency flood response in Warrap and Northern Bahr el Ghazal (NBeG) implemented through NGOs with a pre-existing geographic footprint and technical expertise in the two target states. The selection of the NGOs was based on: (i) geographic footprint; (ii) technical expertise on emergency flood response; (iii) adequate absorptive capacity; and (iv) suitable E&S and security risk management mechanisms.
• Component 4. Project Management and Learning (US$ 13 million): This component will support: a) project management including technical planning, FM, procurement, environmental and social (E&S) risk management, and communications; (b) project monitoring that includes a geo-enabled monitoring system and a beneficiary feedback/grievance redress mechanism (GRM), which will be accessible to refugees, IDPs, and host communities and will complement the existing GRMs in refugee areas; (c) impact evaluations; (d) financing for a third-party monitoring agent (TPMA); and € the PMU operating costs.
• Component 5. Contingency Emergency Response (US$ 0): A contingency emergency response component (CERC), initially without a budget allocation, will allow for the rapid reallocation of project funds in the event of natural or man-made crisis and major disease outbreaks of public health importance during the implementation of the project.

The overall objective of this TPM terms of reference is to provide third party monitoring of project implementation activities undertaken under Components 1- 3 to strengthen awareness of project risks, benefits, opportunities for correction, and conditions requiring timely intervention.

• SO1: Support the institutionalisation of a coordinated national governance mechanism for EUDR compliance in the coffee sector.
• SO2: To contribute to Rwanda’s georeferenced data of the coffee sector in the Eastern Province.

The Framework Agreement for Decentralized Evaluations and Reviews (FADER) LOT 1 covers different types of appraisals, evaluations and reviews of development cooperation projects and programmes funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA).

The main users of the FADER are the regional departments of the MFA, which have regional and country specific development cooperation programmes/projects in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The following assignments are implemented by Particip GmbH:

• Project appraisal: Strengthening inclusive education system in support of Ethiopia's general education sectoral programme,
• Appraisal of the Local Adaptation to Climate Change- Project in Nepal,
• Project appraisal: Rural Economic Development (RED) Phase I in Ethiopia,
• Appraisal of the “Forestry, Land Use and Value Chains Development in Tanzania” (FORLAND) programme,
• Appraisal of Tax Sector Support to Tanzania (TAXTAN) programme.

• ++Result 1++: MLS-NoA methodology – ensuring the overall MLS stability and continuing to address

NoA specific needs – is reviewed to provide for an increased level of harmonization with the MLS

in place in HoA and SLC with any necessary revisions agreed upon by all parties involved.

• ++Result 2++: NoA capacity-building strategy – providing tailored technical support to both the EUTF

teams and implementing partners – is developed and executed according to a need-based analysis.

• ++Result 3++: NoA monitoring reports – analysing progresses of the EUTF-NOA portfolio against both

EUTF strategic objectives and principles of interventions as well as EUTF-NoA intervention logic

– are regularly produced and publically disseminated.

• ++Result 4++: NoA learning strategy – based on cross-country analysis of MLS data, cross-regional

analysis of EUTF main thematic areas, qualitative case studies of best practices and contextual

analysis – is developed with its findings publically presented to the relevant audience agreed upon.

This strategic evaluation has two overarching objectives: (i) to provide EU services and stakeholders with an independent, comprehensive assessment of the performance of the EU-Chad partnership, with particular attention to results achieved against expected objectives and the underlying drivers of these results; and (ii) to identify key lessons, conclusions, and forward-looking recommendations to support decision-makers in improving current and future EU strategies, instruments, and interventions in Chad.

In particular, this evaluation aims to assess the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of the EU’s engagement in Chad over 2015–2025, and the EU’s added value in a highly fragile and geopolitically sensitive environment. It will analyse the EU’s combined use of instruments and modalities, and the extent to which EU actions contribute to expected strategic objectives at country level. Findings will be grounded in a theory‑based approach and strong triangulation, and will be translated into practical recommendations for the second half of the 2021–2027 period and beyond.

This project is part of the program “DUKINGIRE IBIDUKIKIJE – Conservation and enhancement of natural ecosystems and their biodiversity for green growth of rural communities in Burundi” which supports the preservation of natural ecosystems (including two protected areas) in the context of integrated landscape management and wants to help enhance their goods and services.

This program will contribute to sustainably improving the living conditions of the population of the areas of intervention, including displaced persons and returnees, as well as economic and social development from the country. Particular attention will be given to the communities living around the areas protected so that human pressure on them is reduced and that these communities contribute to their sustainable management.

The program is structured around three components:

• Component 1 – Governance and sustainable and inclusive / participatory management of areas protected areas, in particular the Kibira and Rusizi National Parks, are improved.
• Component 2 – Integrated land restoration and management practices and mechanisms and water resources are improved.
• Component 3 – Organization, monitoring and management of the water supply service for drinking water in rural areas are improved for the benefit and thanks to the participation of local populations, with a focus on groups in vulnerable situations.

This program will be implemented in the Kibira and Rusizi National Parks, their buffer zones, as well as in micro-basins which feed the Rusizi River and which will be identified in start of the program on the basis of environmental vulnerability criteria (the program will therefore cover the provinces of Cibitoke and Bubanza, and a municipality in the province of Bujumbura rural).

The specific objective of this contract is as follows:

Contribute to strengthening the efficiency and effectiveness of actions for the protection and enhancement of ecosystem services in the Rusizi river basin, implemented under the program “DUKINGIRE IBIDUKIKIJE - Conservation and enhancement of natural ecosystems and their biodiversity for green growth of rural communities in Burundi”.

This will involve the provision of a team of experts who will accompany and support the implementation and monitoring of actions, facilitate sector coordination and provide quality technical expertise to the entire program.

The general objective (impact) of this action is to contribute to the sustainable economic and social

development of the Democratic Republic of Congo, through the EU's strategy in the DRC which aims at (i) the sustainable stabilisation of the country, (ii) the reduction of inequalities, and (iii) the contribution to the preservation of global public goods, as specified in the Multiannual Indicative Programme 2021-27. The specific objective of this contract is to strengthen the partnership between the EU and the DRC through actions designed to support and complement interventions carried out under the MIP or regional and global programmes in the DRC.

The products expected from this contract are as follows:

• ++Product 1:++ The preparation (identification and formulation) and implementation of the EU-DRC MIP is improved, as is its complementarity with regional or global programmes.
• ++Product 2:++ Political dialogue between the EU and the DRC is better informed and coordinated with the other partners, in particular the Member States, on joint programming and Team Europe Initiatives, at both strategic and operational levels.
• ++Product 3:++ Knowledge of issues relating to the EU's action and presence in the DRC, including outside the MIP's priority areas, is deepened.
• ++Product 4:++ The management and technical capacities of programme implementation partners are

strengthened.

• ++Product 5:++ The programme monitoring, evaluation and audit system has been strengthened.
• ++Product 6:++ Information on the investment and economic governance framework in the DRC and on specific investment themes or projects, particularly in relation to the Global Gateway strategy or the EIP, is improved.
• ++Product 7:++ Technical assistance missions in support of improving the business climate or implementing the Global Gateway strategy or the EIP in the DRC are encouraged.
• ++Product 8:++ The visibility of EU-DRC cooperation, the EU's overall objectives and its multilateral agenda

among the authorities and the general public is improved.

• ++Product 9:++ Cultural cooperation between the EU and the DRC is being stepped up.
• ++Product 10:++ Actors or entities that contribute to the achievement of the EU's strategic objectives in the DRC and worldwide, and do not fall within the scope of multi-annual programming, are supported on an ad hoc basis.

This contract covers all the products of the Technical Cooperation Facility. However, for related products 8 and 9, specific contracts outside the present contract will be concluded by the Delegation, which should be able to cover the vast majority of culture and communication and

visibility actions.