Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is a priority for the European Commission and mechanisms and procedures to avoid contradictions and build synergies between different EU policies have continued to improve since the last PCD report of 2013. The 2015 report covers both cross-cutting and...

This Final Report presents the outcome of the “Evaluation of Commission’s cooperation with the Council of Europe (CoE)”. It was commissioned by the DG DEVCO Evaluation Unit and was implemented between December 2010 and July 2012. The evaluation provides an independent assessment of the...

This Final Report presents the outcome of the “Thematic global evaluation of the Commission support to decentralisation processes”. The Evaluation was commissioned by the DG DEVCO Evaluation Unit and was implemented between January 2010 and February 2012. The purpose of the evaluation is to...

In 2007, five donors (European Commission, Belgium, Denmark, France and Luxembourg) decided to work together to evaluate their cooperation with Niger over the 2000-2008 period. Together, the five Donors taking part in the evaluation (DPE) accounted for more than half the Official Development...

This evaluation assesses the European Commission’s (EC) cooperation with Ukraine over the period 2002-2009. It aims at providing an overall independent assessment of the entire EC cooperation strategy and support for the country and to provide key lessons for improving current and future EC...

On 4 May and 13 July 2016, the Commission presented two comprehensive sets of legislative proposals to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). These include a number of amended and newly introduced provisions related to children (unaccompanied and accompanied). This extract serves as an...

Evaluation matters. In an increasingly complex and challenging environment for international development, the importance of demonstrating our results and learning from experience has gained significant value. Evaluation is a key learning tool for the European Union to understand not only what...

Following the Request for Services N. 2013/332-205, launched by the European Commission (EC), the Consortium led by SACO (Safege-Cowi) was awarded the contract related to the "Study on the concrete results obtained through projects on Migration and Development" financed under AENEAS and the...

Under the framework of the Policy Coherence for Development (PCD), this report, commissioned by the European Commission, presents an analysis of the impacts of the EU biofuel policies on developing countries with the aim of strengthening its knowledge on the consequences of an increased biofuels...