These guidelines constitute an update to the 2012 DG DEVCO guidelines and the 2014 DG Enlargement sector bud-get support guidelines and merge both into one document. The purpose of these guidelines is, first, to contribute to improving the quality of EU budget support contracts by providing...

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 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...