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The mid-term evaluation of the project "Boosting Rural and Rurban Economy in Times of Crisis and Beyond" (BOOST) was commissioned by WFP Nicaragua. BOOST is expected to run from 2018 to 2024 and aims to promote sustainable and resilient agri-food systems in five departments and one autonomous region of Nicaragua. The European Union is the main donor of the project.
The evaluation provided an independent assessment of all project activities in the first three years of BOOST (August 2018 to June 2021). It adopted a theory-based mixed methods approach. Data were collected remotely and during a two-week field mission, including interviews at national and local levels, focus group discussions with beneficiaries, field visits, a comprehensive document review, and analysis of existing M&E data.
In addition to the evaluation report, Particip produced a short video for dissemination purposes.

The purpose of this evaluation was the assessment of both budget support and blending operations of the EU in the Kyrgyz Republic between 2010 and 2019. The EU has implemented ten budget support programmes in the country. The EU is using blending as financing modality in Kyrgyzstan since 2011. Almost 40% of the total portfolio of funds managed by the EU Delegation to the Kyrgyz Republic is channelled through the blending instrument. Furthermore, Kyrgyzstan is the main beneficiary of the IFCA funds, with a 75% of these funds going to this country.
This evaluation entailed two components. First, it provided an assessment of EU budget support in the country applying the 3-Step approach of the OECD-DAC guidelines on the evaluation of budget support. Second, the evaluation focused on EU blending operations in Kyrgyzstan’s Energy and Water management sectors.

The overall objective of this assignment was to contribute to improving the electoral and democratic framework of Sierra Leone during the inter-election period and raising awareness and understanding of the EU EOM recommendations and technical issues related to their implementation. In general, an EFM supports the consolidation of democracy, institution-building and democratic elections in Sierra Leone in the context of the implementation of the 2018 EU EOM recommendations.

The overall objective of the project was to continue positioning the EU as a strong partner of Pakistan.

The overall objective of the project was to enhance the visibility of EU development cooperation in Bangladesh.

The overall objective of the project was to achieve increased visibility of EU and the EU assistance provided to the Republic of Moldova, while providing targeted information on tangible results for the Moldovan citizens. The focus of this contract was EU values and assistance provided to the country, taking as reference the framework of the Association Agreement (AA) and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA). In addition to this, increased focus was placed on visibility of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI), the Eastern Partnership (EaP) and EU regional policies.

The evaluation of the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative was commissioned by WFP Zimbabwe. The R4 Initiative managed climate-related risk to enhance the food and nutrition security of farming households. Its integrated risk management strategy iwasbased on four pillars: risk reduction, risk transfer, risk reserves and prudent risk taking.
The evaluation period covered the first phase of the R4 Initative in Zimbabwe, which ran from January 2018 to June 2021 and targeted 6,000 beneficiaries in the rural districts of Masvingo and Rushinga.
The evaluation served the double purpose of accountability and learning and addresses the evaluation criteria of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability. It employed a mixed methods approach combining qualitative and quantitative, remote and field-based methods.

This framework contract was set up to support the implementation of EIB's evaluations, EIB/EV regularly calls upon the support of experienced evaluation consultancy companies with appropriate sector expertise and language skills.

To enhance the overall effectiveness of the European aid to Madagascar in support of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the development of EU Joint Cooperation Strategy Paper 2021-2027.

This pilot evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Regional Bureau of Nairobi (in cooperation with WFP Rwanda and the Farm to Market Alliance) and assessed the introduction of an innovative food safety technology for aflatoxin reduction in the Rwanda maize value chain. The direct users of the technology were agro-processors and traders that sourced maize from smallholder cooperatives. By solving the aflatoxin problem in maize, the pilot sought to connect smallholder farmers with premium buyers of domestically produced maize.
The evaluation covered the pilot period from October to December 2021 and served the double purpose of accountability and learning (with emphasis on the latter). The evaluation team used a range of qualitative and quantitative tools and data, including a large-scale field survey of smallholder farmers and qualitative primary data collected in the South of Rwanda. The analysis addressed the standard international evaluation criteria and mainstreamed gender throughout.