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The overall objective of this short-term mission was to provide support to the Governance Support Programme (GSP) partner municipalities on the institutionalisation of municipal long term strategic and development planning models and identification of policy, legislative and institutional requirements necessary for these models to succeed. Of particular interest were international experiences on how strategic planning processes have been institutionalised at a local government level in other countries and the accompanying experiences made. Furthermore, recommendations were developed on the institutionalisation and integration of long term strategic and developmental planning on a local government level across South Africa, aiming at the achievement of the national development outcomes and improvement of public service delivery on the local level.

Public services contract for midterm and final evaluations of projects and programmes of the Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC-CTB) in the sector of governance (justice, security, decentralisation, local development, institutional capacity builiding)

The overall objective of the assignment was the production of the 2017 Annual Report of the EUTF for Africa, which serves as an information tool for an informed audience as well as the general public.
The specific objectives were to design the layout of the Annual Report; collect pictures to highlight and enhance the text of the report; develop and graphically enhance tables and graphs for the presentation of the relevant data of the report; edit the English version of the report; translate and edit the report into French; and print 150 copies of the report in English and 100 copies in French.

The objective of the Functional review of the Ministry of infrastructure, housing and territorial planning was to assist decision-making concerning the implementation of the Government’s modernization agenda for the public administration on the level of this specific Ministry.
Being a tool for evaluation and decision-making, the functional review of the Ministry, its conclusions and recommendations should facilitate the implementation of measures to rationalize its structures in order to allow for more efficiency and a better (re-)allocation of resources, especially human resources with the double objective to allow for a better return and to generate savings.
The FR was supposed to be a project of redefining the Ministry’s tasks, its organigram and the allocation of its organs, as well as decision-making responsibilities concerning its key functions.
It should also indicate:

• the needs in terms of staff, the redeployment of officials in the evolving context of reforms to anticipate and especially of deconcentration and decentralisation, taking into account the need to consolidate public finances; in terms of sustainability concerning the development of the wage share and the rebalancing of public expenditure;
• the impact of these functional reviews on the requirements to be taken into account in the context of functional reviews of other Ministries.

The overall objective of Mission was to assess whether the deployment of an EU Election Observation Mission for the 2018 elections would be useful, feasible and advisable, in accordance with the criteria set out in the communication on EU Election Assistance and Observation (COM(2000)191) and the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation.
The specific objective of the Mission was to produce strategic analysis and reporting on the ongoing electoral processes and to provide input for electoral reform as well as confidence-enhancing measures during and after the elections.

The global objective of the assignment was to assess the EU support at regional level, bilateral level and through the blending mechanism (the NIF ) to the partner countries of the Neighbourhood South in the fields of environment (H2020 initiative, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Integrated Water Management, biodiversity and Marine Protected Areas…) over the period 2010-2017, and to propose recommendations for further EU support for the forthcoming programming period 2018-2023.

The overall objective of the program of which this market is a part was "improvement of the governance of natural resources and the management of protected areas with a view to contributing to a green economy characterized by endogenous, sustainable and inclusive economic development, as well as 'to the fight against climate change".

The objective of the evaluation was to provide an overall independent assessment of the performance of the African Peace Facility (APF) for the period 2014-2016 and, on this basis, draw key lessons and recommendations in order to improve current and future support through that instrument.
The evaluation served policy decision-making and project management purposes. The main users of this evaluation were DG DEVCO, the EEAS, EU delegations in the APF beneficiary regions; the AU and the REC/RMs. The evaluation also generated results of interest to governmental and civil society partners and the EU member states.

The large-scale Business Transformation Programme launched by DEVCO (currently called the OpSys programme) encompasses 6 projects to upgrade operational processes and tools which will allow EC staff to efficiently manage their portfolio of projects/programmes throughout the cycle of operations.
The global objective of the assignement is to assist the EC, DG DEVCO, Unit Operational Information System by developing and delivering Change Management deliverables at both programme and project/work-stream level for DEVCO, NEAR and FPI.

The overall objective of the action is to pave the way for a possible EU-India Climate Change Dialogue
and Partnership.