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The overall objective (Impact) to which this action contributes is to assist the Government of Serbia to improve efficiency, accountability and transparency of public administration and the quality of service delivery and management of public finances.

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 project aims to support the European Commission in improving the quality of performance, institutional learning and accountability for a better targeted and more sustainable impact of EU external action. It provides a number of services which, together, aim at reinforcing the quality of programming, intervention design, monitoring, reporting and evaluation processes within DG INTPA and DG NEAR.
The targeted units are INTPA.D4 and NEAR.A4, responsible, among other aspects, of performance, results and evaluation.

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.

Lot 17 - Strategic evaluations supports the European Commission services in conducting external, evidence-based evaluations of EU external action in partner countries, regions worldwide, and globally.
Strategic evaluations can encompass various scopes, including:

• Evaluations of EU external action support in a single country or a group of countries/region
• Thematic and sectoral evaluations with global coverage or focussing on a group of countries/region(s)
• Evaluations of EU external financing instruments (e.g. NDICI, IPA III)
• Evaluations of financial instruments (e.g. blending and guarantees at country/region(s) or

instrument level)

• Evaluations of implementation modalities (e.g. budget support operations with a country,

trust funds at country/region(s) or instrument level)

• Evaluations of the EU’s strategic relationship with specific implementing partners or types of partners (e.g. implementing partners under indirect management)
• Evaluations of Joint programming/Team Europe initiatives
• Other types of evaluation assignments (e.g. Meta Evaluations, Systematic Reviews)

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 global objective is to support the implementation of the Green Agenda in the Republic of Serbia.

The global objective of the Programme is to support the irrigation modernization in Egypt to increase agricultural productivity, improve water resource management, and reduce environmental impacts. The current assignment aims to prepare a pre-feasibility study for the delivery of irrigation system improvements, enhancing agricultural practices, and integrating modern technology for sustainable resource use. The study will have a holistic approach, assessing the optimal scope to intervene (tertiary, quaternary, on-farm networks) considering the expected results and available resources (quantity and quality upstream, downstream, canals, drainage) and the most adequate way of channeling the funds (public authority, development banks, commercial banks).

The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to improve access to basic services and food security of Select Communities in the Republic of the Sudan. The project is designed to complement the current humanitarian aid to Sudan by laying a foundation for medium and longer term development support in areas with high concentration of IDPs. It builds for the future of Sudan by restoring access to basic services and food, protecting human capital, and enhancing communities’ resilience using a bottom-up approach. It is sequenced to first meet immediate basic service needs of vulnerable groups in areas of high IDP concentration and relative safety and accessibility, followed by community-led planning and implementation of medium-term basic services.
Project M&E efforts will be supplemented by BSMA to ensure WB oversight on the ground, given limited access for Bank personnel. To support the WB to fulfil its monitoring and supervision obligations in areas where its staff are unable to access project sites, the Bank engaged with BSMA with the objective of providing a monitoring layer to complement the monitoring activities of the Implementing Entities and ensure that Bank funds are utilized for the purposes specified in the grant agreement and project documents.

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).