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Project Algeria

20/07/18 - 30/06/19

Evaluation of the EU's engagement with Civil Society in the enlargement, neighbourhood regions and Russia over the period 2007-2018

The overall objective of this evaluation is to provide an assessment of the EU's engagement with Civil Society in the enlargement, the Neighbourhood regions and Russia over the period 2007-2018.

This thematic-level evaluation builds on findings of other recent evaluations on civil society, with a particular emphasis on the Neighbourhood East region, and will generate recommendations for future programming and policy purposes.

The temporal scope of the evaluation from 2007 to 2018; and its geographical scope include countries in the following regional groupings:

IPA beneficiaries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey.ENPI/ENI East: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine.ENPI/ENI South: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia.Russia.

The assessment will be against the following evaluation criteria: relevance, effectiveness, impact, coordination, complementarity and coherence, efficiency and EU added value. It looks in particular at:

The proper targeting of the EU's engagement with Civil Society, including outreach and diversification questions, The results of the EU's engagement with Civil Society – in terms of changes supported - over time and against the Commission's strategic objectives, overall and adapted to the three regions (Neighbourhood East, Russia, South and candidates and potential candidates for enlargement), The extent to which differences in approaches and policy frameworks across the regions influenced those results, as well as other explanatory factors, The level of coherence, coordination and complementarity of instruments (geographical and thematic) available to the EU to engage with Civil Society, and its delivery at bilateral and regional levels, The extent to which certain principles were applied in practice, e.g. mainstreaming support to Civil Society within sectoral support

The purpose of the evaluation is threefold: it encompasses the need to demonstrate accountability, promote learning and improve policy and practice in relation to the EC's engagement with Civil Society in the enlargement, the neighbourhood regions and Russia between 2007 and 2018. In essence, the evaluation should:

Identify the key results that have been achieved through the engagement; and assess them in relation to the intended purpose of the support, taking into account those factors which may have either negatively or positively influenced such results. Establish the extent to which the EU's strategic aims were translated in practice.Provide evidence-based recommendations that can inform future policy and programming, including for the Multi-annual Financial Framework (2014-2020 and subsequent).

Project Tanzania

18/07/18 - 01/10/18

Project Completion Review of the 'Assisting Institutions and Markets for Resilience (AIM 4 Resilience) Programme'

Project

25/06/18 - 31/03/22

SADC Regional Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis Programme: Institutionalisation Service Provision 2018-2021

Project Turkey

25/06/18 - 25/03/19

Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian response to the refugee crisis in Turkey, 2016-2017

Project Belgium

20/06/18 - 20/12/19

Support to EIP Communications

Project Uganda

08/05/18 - 31/08/20

International Investment Specialist, Uganda

Project Armenia

08/04/18 - 31/12/19

Evaluation of the European Union's co-operation with Armenia - Country level evaluation (2010-2017)

Landell Mills was contracted to undertake this strategic and complex evalution for DG NEAR.

The main objective of the evaluation was to assess whether and to what extent the various projects and programmes financed by the EU under the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) 1, the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) 2, and the EU thematic programmes in the period 2010-mid-2017 are contributing to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the EU Cooperation with Armenia.

The specific objective was to analyse the overall engagement with Armenia to assess agreements, the co-operation framework and any other official commitments. The evaluation assessed:

The relevance and coherence of European Union's co-operation strategy and programmes in the period 2010- mid-2017; using a dynamic approach looking at issues such as the extent to which the EU support has been responsive to the changes in the socio-economic context of Armenia.The implementation of the European Union's co-operation, focusing on impact, sustainability, effectiveness and efficiency for the period 2010- mid-2017. The evaluation will also take into account the implementation of activities approved prior to 2010 but implemented during the evaluation period, as appropriate, as well as the new programming for the period 2017– 2020The consistency between programming and implementation.The value added of the European Union's interventions (at both strategic and implementation levels).The coordination and complementarity of the European Union's interventions with other donors' interventions and coherence between the European Union's interventions and policies that are likely to affect the partner country/region. The latter is expected to include an assessment of the extent the programmes, financed by the EU, are coherent with the objectives set in agreement with Armenia.

The evaluation took into account areas of bilateral, regional and thematic cooperation (including support through the Neighbourhood Investment Facility) with Armenia and covered the following thematic scope:

Strengthening institutions and governance (including public financial management, public sector capacity building/reform and rule of law)Mobility/Contacts between people (including education, migration and civil society support)Market opportunities (including support to SME development, rural/regional development)Connectivity (including energy efficiency and transport)

Project

06/04/18 - 07/05/18

German contribution to EUROCLIMA

Project Afghanistan

04/04/18 - 29/09/21

Strengthening International Food Safety Standards in Agricultural Value Chains in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries

The project was an ADB flagship technical assistance program that aimed to improve public health and agri-food trade facilitation potential. The project had four major outputs including:

Output 1. Regulations for meeting international food safety standards are developed.

Under Output I, the TA focused on assisting legislation re-drafting, strategy development and updating regulations and inspection checklists. This included assistance in the (i). drafting of new or amended legislation, (ii) development of foundational generic hygiene regulations across the food industry (that helps encourage shifting away from individual food product certification), (iii) updating critical microbiological and chemical testing requirements for specific good groups based on Codex guidance, and (iv) assistance with risk categorization and inspection checklists and guidelines to assist improvements in inspection. As a result new draft Laws on Food Safety were prepared for the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan and revisions to the current Law on Food Safety were prepared for Tajikistan range of new regulations and/or inspection check lists and risk categorization frameworks have been prepared for Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (as specified later in this report) and a new food safety road map committing to implementation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) has been approved by the Kazakhstan Government

Output 2. Laboratory rationalization and infrastructure requirements for international food safety standards identified.

Under Output 2, the TA focused on providing technical assistance to ensure key food safety laboratories in target countries had quality control procedures in place and understood the issues they needed to address in order to secure international accreditation. Training and procedures were also provided for specific tests where requested.

As a result, key food safety laboratories in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic and Turkmenistan were able to secure national accreditation and four were able to secure international accreditation in the areas they sought.

Output 3. Capacity of value chain actors to implement food safety to international standards strengthened.

Under Output 3, the TA focused on providing in-depth in-country training on Good Hygiene Practices (GHP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and HACCP systems to key managers and staff in food safety agencies in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan - with staff from Georgia able to attend the training in Azerbaijan. With the onset of COVID 19, online GHP, GMP and HACCP training modules were then provided to Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia and Turkmenistan.

This training was well attended - with 131 public and private sector representatives attending the online training in Mongolia alone - and demonstrates the interest in adopting more modern food system control approaches in the region. As a result of the training Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have commenced using the materials in their own training programs and there is increased interest from the private sector in pursuing HACCP voluntarily.

Output 4. Holistic national and regional approach to international food safety standards developed.

Under Output 4, the TA attempted to support the establishment of national food safety networks in target CMCs and the establishment of a Regional CAREC Food Safety Network but unfortunately COVID 19 caused such efforts to stall. The TA subsequently provided training to interested State agencies on how to engage with Codex and apply Codex standards - under Output 1 - for which there was significantly more interest.

Full details are available: https://www.adb.org/projects/50217-001/main

And here: https://www.bsigroup.com/globalassets/localfiles/en-gb/our-services/international-project/casestudy-carec.pdf

Project

12/03/18 - 30/11/18

The Evaluation of transport and logistics in the European Commission's civil protection and humanitarian aid operations, 2013-2017

Link to final report available at: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/2c0ab9b4-358a-11e9-8d04-01aa75ed71a1

The overall objective of this contract was to provide an external, independent and thematic evaluation of the transport and logistics activities funded by the European Commission's Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Directorate-General, for the period of 2013-2017. The results were used to further raise awareness about the subject to DG ECHO and its partners, identify points for action and support the future management of activities in the area, in accordance with DG ECHO's mandate.

The evaluation covered the period from 2013–17 and reviewed DG ECHO’s investments in humanitarian air services, its past investments in strengthening international systems for humanitarian logistics and also its funding to logistics within its partner projects.

ECHO-supported activities relevant to the area under analysis included:

Support to participating states in delivering transport and logistics under the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM)Humanitarian air servicesSupport to Humanitarian Partners in delivering transport and logisticsLogistics capacity buildingDisaster preparedness and response facilitiesInternational cooperation to improve global transport and logistics coordination and provision

Through an analysis of activities within the agreed scope, the evaluation team developed responses to evaluation questions that provided assessment against the European Commission’s standard evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence, connectedness, effectiveness, efficiency and EU added value.

The evaluation provided strategic recommendations for action by DG ECHO within its own projects and in cooperation with the EC and Member States, and recommendations for DG ECHO's contribution to the wider humanitarian logistics sector. The recommendations served to identify clear actions that can be taken forward by DG ECHO's operational and strategic units to improve their ways of working, enhance the design of interventions and enhance the fulfilment of its mandate, while also providing learning opportunities for the larger audience of organisations intervening in the humanitarian sector.

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Evaluation of the EU's engagement with Civil Society in the enlargement, neighbourhood regions and Russia over the period 2007-2018

Project Completion Review of the 'Assisting Institutions and Markets for Resilience (AIM 4 Resilience) Programme'

SADC Regional Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis Programme: Institutionalisation Service Provision 2018-2021

Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian response to the refugee crisis in Turkey, 2016-2017

Support to EIP Communications

International Investment Specialist, Uganda

Evaluation of the European Union's co-operation with Armenia - Country level evaluation (2010-2017)

German contribution to EUROCLIMA

Strengthening International Food Safety Standards in Agricultural Value Chains in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries

The Evaluation of transport and logistics in the European Commission's civil protection and humanitarian aid operations, 2013-2017