Budget support is central to the international cooperation policy of the European Union. It provides a platform for policy dialogue with partner countries. It contributes to strengthening country systems and budget processes to deliver these policies. It offers additional fiscal space to...

The Civil Society Facility (CSF) was established in 2008 under the Instrument for Pre-accession, with the purpose of supporting the development of an active civil society capable of participating in public debate on democracy, human rights, social inclusion and the rule of law. The CSF aims to...

The purpose of this evaluation is to provide an independent, evidence-based assessment of the scope and performance of implemented and on-going EU support for Rule of Law (RoL). It focuses on interventions funded by the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA I and II), the European...

The present report is the Final Report of the “Ex-post evaluation of EU assistance to Croatia provided during the period 2007-2013”, focused on capacity development. The evaluation was commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations...

The evaluation of the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) for the period 2014-2020 will, together with parallel evaluations of other external financing instruments (EFIs) under the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2014-2020, feed into the required mid-term review (MTR) report of the...

Evaluation of IPA Cross Border Co-operation Programmes 2007-2013. This evaluation examines the performance of the Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance 2007-2013 (IPA I) in financing cross-border cooperation (CBC) among the 7 countries of the Western Balkans through 11 programmes with a total...

The evaluation of the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II), together with the other independent evaluations of each External Financing Instrument (EFI), that of the Common Implementing Regulation (CIR) and the Coherence Report, will be one of the sources of information to feed into...

The assignment for IPA II Monitoring, Reporting and Performance Framework (MRPF) has lasted over roughly one year, from December 2014 to December 2015, and its three successive Specific Objectives or components have been the following: Specific Objective 1: Help design and streamline the...

PURPOSE AND SCOPE The assignment’s global objective is to assist the Directorate General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) and the concerned Delegations of the European Union (EUDs) and the European Union Office in Kosovo (EUOK) in improving the programming and...