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Global objective: Concept Notes and Full Application proposals for the Restricted Call for Proposals for IPA II 2014 Grant Scheme ”Strengthening the impact of the Civil Society in effective Justice Sector reforms” were selected
Specific objective: independent technical expertise as an assessor were provided to increase efficiency in the evaluation of project proposals, according to the rules of the Practical Guide to Contract procedures for EU external actions - PRAG.

The overall objective of the assignment was to assist the Government of Swaziland in the reduction of poverty in Swaziland.
The purpose of the project was to improve the speed, the quality and the amount of the EU support to Swaziland. The programme aimed to develop the capacity of the NAO support unit to enable the NAO to effectively and efficiently perform and fulfil all of the responsibilities as set out in Article 35 of Annex IV of the Cotonou Agreement. The project also developped the capacity of line ministries, parastatals and NSAs to manage EDF/EU funds and strengthen their capability to design and implement policies, as well as to optimise absorption capacity.

The objective of the FWC was to provide, via individual assignments defined and contracted through Specific Contracts, short-term technical assistance which can be mobilised at very short notice (normally within about 3 weeks).

Development of a regional support programme, enhancing and consolidating regional cooperation on
sustainable trade of legal wood and advancing the FLEGT agenda in VPA (Voluntary Partnership Agreements) and non-VPA countries in the Asian region (Indicative amount EUR 5.5 million)

The overall objective of the assignment is to further strengthen the capacity of the staff of the EC
(including EUDs) and of the ENI partner countries involved in the design, monitoring and
implementation of EU assistance in line with sector focused approach and results based
management principles.
The specific objectives are to:
1. Increase the capacity of EC and ENI partner countries' staff to design, implement and monitor programmes/ actions in line with sector focused approach;
2. Improve the quality of actions/interventions and the achievement and reporting of results;
3. Increase the capacity of EC and ENI partner countries' staff to design and manage
evaluations.
Staff provided:
5 Short-term Experts - 246 wd

The contract will help to implement the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey's communication support programme with the purpose of increasing the public knowledge and understanding of the EU during the accession negotiation process and explaining implications of EU accession in Turkey.

The global objective was to provide technical assistance to Government of South Africa, and in particular the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, to analyze the existing data sources and methods of data collection on incidents of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in the public and private sector. Related intolerance includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender and disability.
Data refers to any piece of information in numerical or any other form.
The requested technical assistance also assisted the government of South Africa with statistical information in the design of country responses to meet its obligations in terms of the DOPA, the ICERD and other international Human Rights treaties referring to discriminations.

The global objective of this project is to provide a short-term expertise to support the EUD in planning for the implementation and monitoring of GAP II for the period 2018-20.

Through the 'Capacity Building for Results Facility (CBR) Services of an HR Firm' contract, Particip was ensuring merit-based recruitment for CBR positions and smooth continuation of RQA for CBR positions.
Objectives of the Assignment were:

• Ensuring merit-based recruitment for CBR positions
• Ensuring smooth continuation of RQA for CBR positions
• Review and improve recruitment processes and procedures for CBR
• Prevention of financial loss to GoIRA (need to pay back salaries to ARTF in case of mis-recruitments)

Since 2015, GIZ’s Good Financial Governance Program (GFG) was implementing a large-scale program aiming to create a government-wide M&E system, including core business activities, IT support and capacity building and training. The services requested under this assignment supported the first and the third pillar GFG’s M&E component, namely Capacity Building and Training on core business M&E activities.
The assignment was embedded in the Zambian Government’s process to produce its Annual Progress Report (APR). The APR is used as a monitoring tool and was intended to increase transparency of development outcomes. The ToR stated that the key issue underlying the assignment were the untimely production of the APR due to insufficient capacities of M&E staff to analyse, interpret and communicates meaningfully on the results and findings extracted from the available and assembled data sets from various sectors and line ministries.
Our understanding of the ToR and the status of achievements of the Programme was that the challenge existed in the further use of collected data through M&E activities under the GW-MIS in order to analyse and extract relevant information on actual performance against the N-KPIs. The appropriate, efficient and transparent communication and visualisation of this information gained from data analysis was another crucial element of this assignment.
Subsequently, the objective as described in the ToR was to strengthen the skills of M&E staff in data analysis and communication and to support the APR production process.
Ultimately, this project contributed to better policy decisions for improved service delivery for citizens and higher transparency and accountability.