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The main objectives of this Mid-term Evaluation of the “Cooperation with Northern and Southern Transatlantic Dimension - Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)” (Transatlantic Action) are 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 “Cooperation with Northern and Southern Transatlantic Dimension - Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)” (Transatlantic Action) to be evaluated, paying particular attention to its intermediate results measured against its expected objectives; and the reasons underpinning such results, focusing on assessing the policy relevance of the emerging results of the action;
• key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations in view to inform the upcoming follow-up project to start in mid- January 2020 as well as future programming enabling cooperation on the topic.

The Evaluation Unit of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has commissioned an independent evaluation of Finnish country strategies in fragile or conflict-affected situations, with a view to assessing the role of the country strategy instrument in supporting planning and implementation.

At global level, the contract aimed to achieve the following objectives:

• the gradual establishment of an improved EU visibility in Cambodia as a key player in providing development cooperation assistance that promotes EU values such as good governance, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, focusing on quality service delivery to all and finally inclusive and sustainable development– results;
• present the EU's achievements in the last 21 years towards making a difference in the lives of the common people in Cambodia;
• project a clear picture of the EU's image and the manner, in which the EU's global identity impacts on relations with Cambodia, through agreed overall messages, as well as specific thematic messages derived from the policy areas in which the EU is active;
• effective communication of the EU's development cooperation actions in Cambodia and the use of EU funds.

The EC seeked to establish a Europe-wide Communication Network gathering EU and EU Member States’ development cooperation departments for enhancing their awareness building activities on development issues. The main objectives of this assignment were:

• Establish, manage and coordinate the EU Development Communication Network;
• Design, create and manage a password-accessed web-based digital platform for the network members;
• Organisation of Europe-wide annual events in 2018 and 2019.

The main objective of the contract is to enable VET staff of state and private actors of the dual system to better fulfill their tasks in the implementation of dual training. This should improve the quality of education. In addition to imparting theoretical, practical and didactic competencies as well as the necessary competences for the management of dual training, the team should also train individuals and organizations to enter into competent and prepared dialogue with other actors.

The objective of this assignment was to strengthen the SADC-EU cooperation relationship and to effectively contribute to SADC's engagement with the European Union to enhance implementation of the revised Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP).

The overall aim of the contract was to facilitate the first phase of follow-up to the Youth Plug-In Initiative. The aim of the follow-up process was to test innovative solutions to common challenges on both continents as presented in the AU-EU Youth Agenda.

Overall objective were: to increase the visibility of EU-funded projects in Azerbaijan
Specific objectives were:

• To increase visibility of the EU assistance in regional and rural development in Azerbaijan, and
• To raise awareness about the EU activities in institutional capacity building in Azerbaijan through Institution Building Instruments: Twinning/TAIEX/Sigma.

The project was commissioned to assist DEVCO-B2 to respond to growing demands to mainstream peace and strengthen internal capacity for the EU to meet its goal to preserve peace and prevent conflict as part of its foreign policy.
The purpose of the project was to produce studies to consolidate and integrate existing contributions into a global product by topics and by country; to demonstrate both implementation and progress of the New European Consensus for development and the Integrated Approach; and to contribute to the mainstreaming of peacebuilding and inclusivity, ensuring in-depth analysis together with in-house tools on resilience, peacebuilding and conflict prevention, also through the production of field cases studies and will ensure knowledge transfer, both in- house and for the targeted countries.

The general objective was to support the NSG with 15 researched case studies for teaching and learning purposes and to build the capacity of 6 higher education institutions and to develop an ICT case study repository