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Provision of consultancy services feeding into the "Independent Evaluation of the African Development Bank's Program Based operations (PBOs) for the period 2012-17", covering 30+ African countries

The overall objective of the future governance programme was to contribute to poverty reduction, economic growth and good governance in Laos.

The aim of the evaluation was to assess the EU support to social protection launched in the period 2007-2013. The evaluation examined the attained results, their impact and sustainability, and identified good practices and pitfalls in IPA I, ENPI, DCI and EDF programming and implementation.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA) commissions regularly meta-evaluations in order to synthesise the findings, explore the issues and assess the reliability of the decentralised evaluations.
The assessment of the evaluation reports includes all decentralised evaluation reports conducted between January 2015 and June 2017. The meta-evaluation consists of two parts:

• Meta-evaluation of the decentralised evaluation reports and their corresponding terms of references.
• Meta-analysis of reliable evaluation findings on Finland's development cooperation verified against the OECD-DAC evaluation criteria demonstrating how Finnish development policy goals have been achieved based on findings in different reports.

Final evaluation of the “Programme d’Appui au sous-Secteur de Transport Rural, phase 2" (PASTR II)

Global objective:

• Ensure maximum visibility of EU cooperation activities in Sierra Leone.
• Raise awareness of EU work on specific sectors through high media impact activities.

The assignment was part and parcel of a broader evaluation of the Bank’s Program Based operations (PBOs) for the period 2012-17 led by the Independent Development Evaluation unit of the African Development Bank (AfDB). Consultancy input consisted of a cluster evaluation on private sector enabling environment (PSE).

The principal objectives of the evaluation were to present to the European Union’s external cooperation services, to the partner government and, if need be, to the general public:

• an overall, totally independent assessment, of the results of the intervention of PAI II with a particular focus on the project’s results in relation to its objectives;
• the principal lessons learnt from the intervention and recommendations in order to improve the ongoing measures as well as future actions.

The global objective of this project was to contribute to Turkey’s efforts in establishing well functional migration management system in line with new normative framework and EU acquis.

The project provides a comprehensive analysis of wildlife trade between Mexico and the EU (whether legally or illegally traded; and whether CITES listed or non-CITES listed species); in order to improve the implementation of CITES and other related policies related to tackling illegal wildlife trade, through closer collaboration on wildlife trade policies, as well as a better understanding of both Parties legal and illegal wildlife market. Moreover, it provides a clear and updated characterization of the legal and illegal trade in wildlife between Mexico and the EU, and on the basis of this, provides recommendations towards the development and implementation of actions aiming at ensuring that wildlife trade is sustainable, legal, and traceable, while providing economic incentives to the main stakeholders of their value chain (from the local and indigenous communities to the end consumer markets, e.g. European industry).