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Under this framework agreement, suppliers will provide advice and expertise to FCDO in the thematic areas of education, gender and social inclusion.

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 will assess 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 general objective was to help strengthen democratic governance in Burundi by building the technical capacity of the National Communication Council and the Ombudsman Institution of the Republic of Burundi.

The purpose of this contract is:

• To support the EUD and relevant Government bodies in the more effective delivery of quality primary education services, through targeted technical assistance that will provide institutional strengthening support, capacity building, policy advice and evidence-based research, as required;
• To support the EUD and relevant Government bodies in the more effective delivery of TVET services, through targeted technical assistance that will provide institutional strengthening support, capacity building, policy advice and evidence-based research, as required. Support to the establishment of a SWAP in TVET, through enhanced results-based planning, management and assessment and improved coordination across the TVET sector;
• To support the relevant Government bodies responsible for Finance and Procurement in improving the Public Financial Management (PFM) system in ensuring adequate and equitable financing and management of funds.
• To support the EUD in (i) facilitating more effective policy dialogue with MoE and MoPME by providing technical inputs for strategic thinking on further policy analysis, development and implementation within the education sector in Bangladesh; (ii) periodic monitoring and assessment of overall sector performance and progress in the implementation of the NEP, Sector Budget Support (SBS) eligibility criteria and assessment of progress towards the HCDP21 disbursement linked indicators (DLI) targets of the TVET sector and, if required, for the primary education sector.

Supported signatory municipalities to develop and implement sustainable economic, energy and climate actions

This mid-term evaluation assessed the KWIHAZA project, “Transformation towards sustainable food systems”, in Rwanda. It examined the project’s overall performance at mid-term from the perspectives of learning and accountability, with a focus on its progress across the aquaculture, fisheries and horticulture value chains, its contribution to more inclusive and sustainable food systems, and its relevance for women and youth. The evaluation analysed effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and sustainability, as well as unintended effects and the cross-cutting themes of environment, gender and inclusion.

The main objectives of this sector evaluation were to provide the relevant services of the European Union and the interested stakeholders with:

• An overview of the FPI funded actions to counter disinformation/FIMI
• An overall independent assessment of the past performance of the actions relevant to countering foreign interference and manipulation of information, funded under different strands of budget managed by the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (NDICI-Crisis Response, NDICI-Foreign Policy Needs, Thematic MIP Peace and Stability, Instrument Contributing for Stability and Peace Article 3, 4 and 5 respectively), paying particular attention to their approach, the coherence of the approach taken in different countries, intermediate or final results measured against expected objectives; and the reasons underpinning such results;
• An in-detail evaluation of 12 actions to be selected in the inception period;
• Key lessons learned and related recommendations in order to improve current and future Actions, particularly concerning the approach taken to countering FIMI and disinformation in third countries;
• Key lessons learned to improve coordination and articulation with other actions and initiatives in the field of countering FIMI/disinformation implemented by other EC services (NEAR, INTPA, COMM, CNCT, JRC, RTD) and EEAS.

The Global Objective of this contract is to coordinate and promote synergies between the different components of the Partnerships for Sustainable Cities programme (hereafter “the C2C programme”), building on/capitalizing on the activities carried out and outputs achieved with the support of the previous Technical Facilitation team.

The scope of the project was to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy and especially to the Forestry Department in order to facilitate the implementation of EU related strategies, policies and acquis by boosting sustainable development of the Forestry sector in North Macedonia.

This mission is designed to improve the favourable environment for the development of growth-oriented Senegalese SMEs; and to strengthen the business ecosystem for selected clusters in Senegal.