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The Youth Action Plan (YAP) in EU External Action 2022–2027, adopted in October 2022, aims to promote meaningful youth participation and empowerment in EU external action for sustainable development, equality, and peace. The global objective of this evaluation is twofold:

• To provide the relevant EU services and stakeholders with an independent assessment of the performance of the YAP, ensuring accountability by examining results at different levels against expected objectives and analysing the factors underpinning those results.
• To identify key lessons learned, conclusions, and recommendations regarding the YAP in order to inform decision-makers on how to improve current and future interventions on youth mainstreaming in EU policies, dialogues, and actions, notably within Global Gateway initiatives.

'Inclusive Local and Economic Development' (ILED) is an EUTF-funded programme that aims to contribute to stability in Somalia by extending state authority and services, promoting local reconciliation and peacebuilding, creating inclusive economic opportunities, and protecting the most vulnerable. It relies on an integrated territorial approach that clusters individual interventions within four strategic corridors.
The evaluation has been commissioned by the EU Delegation to Somalia. It provides an overall independent assessment of the performance of the programme and identifies lessons learned, conclusions, and recommendations. The evaluation adopts a theory-based approach using mixed methods, and it covers the entire implementation period from 2018 to 2025, all key result areas, and all four corridors.

The Government of Ukraine, with support from the World Bank-administered Ukraine Relief, Recovery, Reconstruction and Reform Trust Fund (URTF), is implementing the HOPE Project to support the repair and recovery of housing damaged by Russia’s military aggression. The project includes: (1) financial compensation for emergency repairs of partially damaged residential units (USD 590 million), (2) design and capital repair of partially damaged multi-family buildings and related municipal capacity building (USD 200 million), and (3) project management and institutional strengthening. Particip will provide independent verification, monitoring, and reporting for Component 1, assessing compliance with Ukrainian legislation and World Bank requirements, verifying expenditures and results, identifying risks and gaps, collecting stakeholder feedback, and recommending improvements to project implementation.

Increase Knowledge and Public Awareness of Integrated and Sustainable Landscape Management (ISLM) and Coastal Zone Management (CZM) to reduce the vulnerability of the Jamaican ecosystems from the hills to the ocean and strengthen the resilience of communities within the targeted watersheds against the adverse effects of climate change.

This evaluation covers two EU-funded global interventions supporting the UNECE Water Convention: Phase 1: Promoting accession to the Water Convention (2019–2021) and Phase 2: Increasing awareness and accession to the Water Convention (2022–2024), with budgets of EUR 2.35 million and EUR 3.0 million respectively.
The ex-post evaluation will provide an independent assessment of performance and results and identify lessons and recommendations to improve current and future EU support. It includes assessing relevance and coherence of EU-supported activities (especially those facilitating accession and supporting implementation by new Parties), examining efficiency and effectiveness of the Convention secretariat, and drawing forward-looking recommendations, with a requirement to develop a Theory of Change as part of the assessment.

The overall objective (Impact) to which this action contributes is to ensure the efficient and effective use of PA assistance in Türkiye by enhancing the quality and performance of EU-funded interventions through strengthening design, monitoring and evaluation systems, with a particular focus on supporting the post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction efforts.
The specific objectives (Outcomes) of this contract are as follows:

• To conduct a single monitoring mission in line with the ROM methodology to ensure achievement of objectives of the PPF project at action level.
• To assess the performance of the PPF Project in terms of the ROM criteria.

The overall objective of the project is to promote the EU as a strong partner of Pakistan in its efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on socio-economic development, good governance, human rights, rule of law and sustainable management of resources.

The Benin Gender Equality Support Programme (PAEG), Phase 1: 01.07.2022 - 30.06.2026 aims to strengthen gender equality among the Beninese population and thereby sustainably reduce the socio-economic vulnerability of women in Benin.

The EU-funded “Support to the Global Campus of Human Rights (2024–2026)” project (EUR 10.6 million) supports a worldwide network of over one hundred participating universities delivering postgraduate education in human rights, including scholarships for students and human rights defenders from third countries. The action runs from 01/08/2024 to 15/06/2026 and operates globally through its headquarters (Venice) and eight regional hubs (Venice, Pretoria, Yerevan, Sarajevo/Bologna, Buenos Aires, Beirut, Bangkok and Bishkek).
The mid-term evaluation will provide an independent assessment of the project’s performance (with a focus on best use of resources/value for money), explain the drivers of results achieved, and generate lessons and recommendations to guide the remainder of implementation and future EU support.