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The “Offline” CBR mechanism, managed by UNDP provided an option to pay competitive salaries to up to 191 senior civilian officials requested for the MOIA, following established recruitment and selection guidelines.

Specific objectives of the HR audit were: to identify key challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for strengthening the management, practices, and processes of recruiting qualified civilians in the MOIA.

As an HR Firm, Particip did an “end to end” in depth audit of the “Offline” Capacity Building for Results (CBR) Human Resource planning, recruitment, and management process of the (up to 191) MOIA Civilian appointments.

The main objectives of this evaluation were to provide the relevant services of the European Union, the

interested stakeholders, and the wider public with:

• An overall independent assessment of the past performance of the Governance programme,

paying particular attention to its results measured against its objectives;

• Key lessons and recommendations in order to improve and future Actions.

In particular, this final evaluation will serve to:

(1) Make an assessment of the programme, its design, implementation and results, and to

(2) Determine the relevance and fulfilment of objectives, developmental efficiency, effectiveness, impact,

and sustainability.

The main users of this evaluation will be the EU Delegation and the National Authorising Officer (NAO).

Technical assistance to monitor implementation of the programme to support the implementation of the government equality plan in Morocco.

The services will ensure both regular monitoring of the programme's implementation and examination of the conditions regarding disbursement of the different budget support tranches.

The contract will involve several monitoring assignments during implementation of the programme, to be carried out by 3 experts, 1 in the fields of (i) policies and strategies for gender equality, (ii) legal and judicial frameworks for women's rights and (iii) macroeconomics and gender-based budgeting.

The "Annual Report on the implementation of the European Union's instruments for financing external actions" is first and foremost a legal obligation for the European Commission to report to the European Council and to the European Parliament on development and external assistance and their implementation.

The global objective for this assignment was to produce the "Annual Report 2017 on the implementation of the European Union's instruments for financing external actions in 2016” as well as its accompanying Staff Working Document.

The assignment included the editing of the Staff Working Document, the drafting, layout and design of the Annual Report, as well as the production of an animated presentation of the Report's results. The Report was translated into all official EU languages.

The evaluation assessed the EU’s cooperation strategy in Côte d’Ivoire as well as its implementation between 2007 and 2015. Both levels – strategy and implementation – were evaluated. The main objectives of the evaluation were:

• to provide a global and independent assessment of the past and current EU cooperation and to put it into perspective with the general objectives and political priorities of the EU with regards to the country, not only for EU services but also for member states and for a broader public in general;
• to draw the main conclusions and to formulate recommendations in view of (i) improving current decisions and (ii) providing better information for future decision-making with regards to the cooperation strategy;
• produce a document that will serve as base for the upcoming joint programming in 2016 between EU, France, Germany and Spain, and which will answer to the challenges of such an effort.

The scope of the evaluation covered:

• All agreements, the cooperation framework and other official commitments of both EU and Ivory Coast, including the objectives and priorities of EEAS with regard to EU-Côte d’Ivoire relations.
• The following financial instruments: envelopes of the European Development Fund (EDF), of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), of the Instrument for Stability (IfS) and of thematic programmes financed through Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI).
• The coherence between interventions managed by DG DEVCO-EuropeAid and those managed by DG ECHO, the European Investment Bank EIB or other EU interventions and policies in the field of development cooperation which affect Côte d’Ivoire. A particular attention will be laid on the interim economic partnership agreements (EPA) with Côte d’Ivoire for the fisheries sector.

The report is available at:

https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/external-strategic-evaluation-eus-cooperation-republic-cote-divoire-2007-2015_en

Global objective of the assignment:

• Contribute to improved visibility of EU and EU assistance through a series of engaging multi-media materials and publications show-casing tangible results of EU funds provided for the development of the Republic of Moldova and its people.
• Ensure promotion and dissemination of the multi-media materials and publications produced in the framework of this contract.

The visibility of the EU and EU assistance in the Republic of Moldova is among key priorities of EU actions in country. An effective and strategic communication, in light of increasing awareness about the results of EU funds provided for the development of the country and its people, is envisaged. Increased communication and visiblity of EU and EU assistance is important to provide the target groups with accessible, easily understandable and relevant information on the different tools and channels of EU assistance.

The global objective was to promote Public Administration Reform process in the Republic of Moldova and to support the preparation of the Annual Action Programme 2016 in the field of complementary Technical Cooperation Facility. An other objective was to draft four Terms of Reference for the individual activities foreseen in the Annual Action Programme 2015 for Public Administration Reform, one Technical Specifications for the Action on National Bureau of Statistics and support to the tendering procedure.

The overall objective of this assignment was to conduct a final evaluation of the IcSP actions under Commission decision 39786.

The specific objectives of this final evaluation were:

• to assess the performance of the two projects, including types of interventions, design and execution of assignments;
• to assess if and to what extent the projects have contributed to facilitating EU support to third parties engaged in the migration crisis in Haiti;
• to describe the possible steps that could have been taken to minimize the risk of unsuccessful implementation any further (if any);
• to describe the possible positive outcomes despite not achieving certain results;
• to make an assessment of the project’s visibility, information and communication;
• to identify and document key lessons learned;
• to produce a set of recommendations that will assist the EU in designing and implementing future actions in this sector.

Le programme a pour objectif global de promouvoir la conservation durable et concertée de la faune

sauvage, de la biodiversité et du patrimoine du Tchad au bénéfice des populations.

L'objectif spécifique est de promouvoir la gestion concertée des aires protégées et écosystèmes

fragiles du Tchad. Les trois résultats attendus :

• Résultat 1 - Gouvernance, financement durable et renforcement institutionnel : les capacités

des institutions de conservation de la biodiversité, des aires protégées et du patrimoine sont

renforcées.

• Résultat 2 - Grand écosystème fonctionnel de Zakouma : un modèle de conservation du Grand

écosystème fonctionnel de Zakouma est développé et mis en œuvre de manière concertée.

• Résultat 3 - Patrimoines sahélo-sahariens : la protection, la gestion concertée et la mise en

valeur des écosystèmes fragiles et sites patrimoniaux au bénéfice des communautés locales des

zones sahélo-saharienne et saharienne sont assurées durablement.

The overall objective of this short-term mission was to provide support to the Governance Support Programme (GSP) partner municipalities on the institutionalisation of municipal long term strategic and development planning models and identification of policy, legislative and institutional requirements necessary for these models to succeed. Of particular interest were international experiences on how strategic planning processes have been institutionalised at a local government level in other countries and the accompanying experiences made. Furthermore, recommendations were developed on the institutionalisation and integration of long term strategic and developmental planning on a local government level across South Africa, aiming at the achievement of the national development outcomes and improvement of public service delivery on the local level.

Specific purposes of the mission were the provision of support to the GSP partner municipalities through a presentation of the research findings on international experience and recommendations in order to support the adjustment of their current planning processes to be more long term orientated and focussed;

Furthermore, recommendations were developed and delivered on key aspects and actions concerning the institutionalisation and integration of long term strategic and developmental planning at a local government level across South Africa;

The GSP’s advisory services to its partner municipalities were supported through recommendations on how to best develop and implement their long term strategic and developmental planning and assistance was provided for policy development at national level through an abstract of the research findings and recommendations on long term strategic and developmental planning.