This ad-hoc evaluation report covers a sample of centralised CARDS assistance from the 2001 to 2006 national programmes.... This report has been prepared by Rambøll Management during the period from May to August 2008 and reflects the situation at 1st August 2008, the cut-off date for the...

This review of the strategic evaluations carried out on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Co-operation and Development (DG DEVCO) is part of a DG DEVCO and European External Action Service (EEAS) exercise aimed at updating the European Consensus on...

The objective of this evaluation is to help the European Commission improve the impact of EIDHR support for torture prevention and rehabilitation centres. The evaluation focuses on the projects’ relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability and provides lessons and...

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...

Studies of EU conditionality assume a power asymmetry between the Commission and the CEECs over the adoption of the acquis, and at the macro level of democratisation and marketisation, rather than tracking clear causal relationships in policies. The article employs regional policy and...

La adhesión de un estado a la Unión Europea origina diversas y numerosas transformaciones en los diferentes componentes del sistema político. En general, inciden sobre aspectos como la opinión pública, los actores políticos (partidos políticos, grupos de interés,...), las instituciones...