Nuestros proyectos

The overall objective of the assignment was raising the awareness of young people worldwide about the activities of the EU on development and cooperation and especially about the positive impact they have on changing people’s lives for the better.

The specific objective was achieving this by creating enhanced international, regional and national media exposure by having a fresh different perspective on the EU-funded projects. This new perspective was provided by a blogging competition and a reporting trip of 4 young people on 3 continents (Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America and Caribbean).

Communicating directly from the field did not only provide for a closer, more concrete understanding of the EU activities and people’s needs and achievements but also provided DEVCO with new, updated, good quality material that can be used for further communication purposes at EU level as well as at regional and national level in the third countries.

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.

The direct beneficiaries of this assignment are the European Commission, DG NEAR, including the

EU Delegations and the national authorities in the ENI partner countries.

• EU stakeholders are (non-exhaustive list): EC services - DG NEAR Directorate A, B, C and R; the EU Delegations (Office) in ENI partner countries;
• National stakeholders include (non-exhaustive list): General Secretariats of Government/ Deputy Prime Minister´s or Prime Minister´s Offices, Ministries of Finance, European Integration, other line ministries, Statistical Office etc. The staff of the national authorities of the ENI partner countries and that of the European Commission in headquarters (DG NEAR) and in the EU Delegations involved in programming, monitoring and implementation of EU assistance is the target group of this contract.

Particip reviewed and improved recruitment processes and procedures for CBR.

Furthermore, the team ensured prevention of financial loss to GoIRA which otherwise had needed to pay back salaries to ARTF in case of mis-recruitments.

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)

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).

The beneficiaries of the short-term technical assistance available via this Framework Contract (FWC) are exclusively third countries benefiting from the Commission’s External aid programmes. The FWC had no overall contractual amount or maximum budget. The implementation duration (not exceeding two years) and the contractual amount (not exceeding € 300,000) were fixed for each individual assignment. These maxima included the possible addenda.

The various assignments were financed from the different budget lines for external aid (the European Communities general budget) and the European Development Fund (EDF).

Implemented missions:

• 06.03.2014 - ongoing: Botswana; Preparation of the 11th EDF SADC programme in the field of Regional Political Cooperation, Budget: €183,443
• 02.04.2014 - ongoing: Cameroon; Evaluation à mi parcour du PASC, Budget: €52,713
• 24.03.2014-ongoing: Niger; Mid-term evaluation of the support programme to civil society (PASOC) II in Niger, Budget: €64,500
• 22.04.2014-ongoing: Uganda; Identification of 11th EDF good governance pillar, Budget: 158,280
• 14.04.2014-ongoing: Azerbaijan; Study on Azerbaijani-Georgian project for 'Implementation of Infrastructure at the 'Red Bridge' Crossing Point', Budget: €55,000
• 22.04.2014-ongoing: Pakistan; Appraisal of EU electoral interventions 2009-2013 to feed into EU ongoing federal and provincial parliamentary programmes, Budget: €99,928
• 09.06.2014-ongoing: Malawi; Mid Term Evaluation of the Democratic Governance Programme in Malawi, Budget: €90,000
• 20.05.2014-ongoing: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Corruption risk assessment in the education and health sectors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Budget: €93,990
• 13.05.2014-ongoing: Mauritania; Election Expert Mission to Mauritania 2014, Budget: €217,898
• 22.06.2014-ongoing: Nigeria; Mid-term Evaluation of the programme Support to the Office of NAO II FED/2010/021-980, Budget: €93,998
• 30.05.2014-ongoing: South Africa; Review of Technical Assistance Models in South Africa, Budget €121,595
• 23.06.2014-ongoing: South Africa; Technical Assistance to Strengthening the e-Learning of the National School of Government, Budget: €108,200
• 01.06.2014-ongoing: Mauritania; Evaluation of the "Program implementation of the 10th EDF (PAMO EDF 10) and instructions for a new program", Budget: €115,000
• 15.08.2014-ongoing: Haiti; Sectoral state of affairs and formulation of component 'Institutional Support' - part II the "Support Programme for Reconstruction and Development of Neighborhoods", Budget: €74,625
• 01.09.2014-ongoing: Armenia; Review of the Sector Support Programme for Support to Justice Reform in Armenia 'Phase II' Project, Budget: €161,992

DEVCO’s Civil Society and Foundations unit is also tasked with contributing to strengthen communication, information sharing and coordination (within DEVCO and with European External Action Service, EU Delegations in partner countries and, where appropriate, with line DGs, EU Member States and the Council) and improving visibility and understanding of the EU development cooperation on sector related issues.

Therefore, the overall objective of this assignment was to design an action plan to support and assist the implementation of the communication strategy elaborated by DEVCO Civil Society and Foundations unit.

The specific objectives were to raise awareness, promote and increase knowledge and visibility of the Civil Society and Foundations' policy and initiatives with, amongst others, its Framework Partnership Agreement signatories, EU institutions, development actors and the general audience in the EU and partner countries through the design and production of multimedia, visibility and other materials as required.

The overall objective of this communication programme is to communicate the EU's policy objectives in Turkey. The purposes of this contract are as follows:

=Promote the EU and its values – in particular civil and political rights - among the Turkish population with a particular focus on identified target audiences, notably young people (under the heading ‘Our Europe, Our Future’), and underline the practical benefits of adopting these values for the Turkish citizens.

=Disseminate information about what the EU is concretely doing for Turkish citizens through its financing instruments to key partners and policy-makers and enhance the visibility of EU-funded projects. This information will include facts and figures about EU funded projects as well as the impact and effect of these projects.=Promote EU interests in Turkey, whether of an economic nature or aiming at a better understanding of EU policy positions.

=Dispel myths and misconceptions related to the EU and EU-Turkey relations and the accession process.

In line with the policy priorities referred to under 1.4, the purposes of this contract are to provide advisory services and support with a view to:

• Purpose 1: Help improve the quality of the EU's development aid in health in the medium and long term through adequate support at the key steps of the project/programme cycle and through the increase in know-how and capacity of staff in charge of operations in the health sector
• Purpose 2: Support the EU in the continuing definition and/or adaptation of coherent EU policies for global health aid
• Purpose 3: Support the EU in its contribution to the improvement of the governance of the global health aid architecture and mechanisms, in its ambition to increase the coherence and the complementarity between interventions at bilateral and global levels; and in the definition of its own approaches to cooperation in the health sector
• Purpose 4: Enhance the accountability framework of the EU through adequate resource tracking and impact monitoring and to enhance its visibility at all levels, while respecting the EU commitments in terms of aid effectiveness
• Purpose 5: On a request base and resources allowing, to reinforce partner countries and, more generally, to reinforce the technical capacities of all stakeholders through targeted technical assistance and sharing of knowledge and know-how, in order to facilitate and improve the EU cooperation in the field of health

1) Sound comparative analysis on status quo, coherencies, complementarities and conflicts between

national timber legality systems in ASEAN and ASEAN + 3 developed

2) Intervention options for the EU to support the implementation of the ASEAN workplan on FLEG,

including an ASEAN common position on timber legality and development of an ASEAN timber

legality baseline supportive to robust and effective VPA agreements identified

3) Intervention options for the EU to maintain the momentum of forest governance and trade

approaches in ASEAN +3 developed

4) Formulation of a detailed design of the regional support programme through Identification and

Formulation of an Action Document (AD) in line with EU guidelines and official updated

templates

The global objective of this project was 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.

More specifically, the objective was to conduct two Gender Analyses (GAs), one for Yemen and one for Iraq, focusing on the EU development and cooperation strategic areas for each respective country to inform and effectively mainstream gender into the design and formulation of future projects/programmes of the EU Delegation to Yemen/Iraq and EU Member States (EUMS).

To this end, the GAs provided an understanding of the gender inequalities that persist in the economic and political spheres in Yemen and in Iraq, their causes, the changes prompted by the conflict (ongoing in Yemen, and recent in Iraq), and of local authorities' and non-state actors' capacity to work on gender equality in these contexts.

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. For this program, GIZ acts as implementing agency for UKAid and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The program supported the Ministry of National Development Planning (MNDP), the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Finance (MoF) at the “Apex” level as well as five sectors (Agriculture, Labour, Education, Health and Transport), encompassing seven line ministries.

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). In order to improve evidence-based policy making in the context of the APR an in-depth understanding of the national context and how different results in various sectors interact with regards to the achievement of overall development objectives was required.

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