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...

The overall purpose of this study was to see what lessons could be learnt from the past experience of EC external action programmes that might be useful in the design and formulation of the EU’s next multi-annual budget. In addition, the study also sought to identify lessons which could...

This document is the Final Report for the Concept Study for the forthcoming thematic evaluation of the European Commission (hereafter referred to as “the Commission”) support to Conflict Prevention and Peace Building (CPPB). This evaluation is part of the 2008 evaluation programme approved...

This evaluation aims to assess the extent to which the European Commission’s (EC) assistance has been relevant, efficient, effective and sustainable in producing the expected impacts in the education sector. Moreover, the evaluation also assesses co-ordination and complementarity with other...