Evaluation of the European Union’s regional co-operation with Asia : Final Report ; Volume 1

The “Evaluation of the European Union's regional co-operation with Asia − Regional Level Evaluation” was commissioned by the DG DEVCO Evaluation Unit and was implemented between January 2013 and November 2013. Covering the period 2007-2012, the evaluation’s objectives were: To provide the relevant external co-operation services of the European Union (EU) and the wider public with an overall independent assessment of the EU’s past and current co-operation relations with Asia; To identify key lessons and recommendations in order to improve the current and future EU strategies, programmes and actions. The following points were assessed: The relevance and coherence of the EU’s co-operation strategies (all instruments included) for the period 2007-2012; The consistency between programming and implementation for the same period; The implementation of the EU’s co-operation, focusing on impact, sustainability, effectiveness and efficiency for the period under analysis – and on intended effects for the next programming cycle, 2014-2020; The value added of the EU’s interventions (at both strategic and implementation level); The 3Cs: co-ordination and complementarity of the EU’s interventions with other donors’ interventions (focusing on EU Member States); and coherence between the EU’s interventions in the field of development co-operation and other EU policies that are likely to affect the region.