This report provides an account of the activities of the Support Group for Ukraine in the course of its first eighteen months of full operation (from approximately September 2014 to the first half of this year). The Support Group was created in Spring 2014 on the initiative of the President of...

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...

There is a growing realisation of the importance of strenghthening the preventive, developmental, promotive, transformative, integrative and re-integrative context of social protection in sub-saharan Africa - through ensuring that poor and vulnerable people are linked to labour market and...

This report presents the results of a review of the economic literature on selected developmental aspects of international trade trends and trade policies in less developed countries between 2000 and 2011. The views expressed are those which were considered by the authors of this report as...

This paper provides an overview of the development of the conceptual framework underlying social protection programming and policy among the key international development institutions active in this sector. It sets out the historical, institutional and political factors underlying the current...

Support to elections includes electoral assistance programmes and European Union (EU) election observation missions. Although interrelated through their complementary activities, they are each independent. Electoral assistance is funded regionally while observation missions are implemented...

This short Guide provides practical advice and recommendations for European Union officials and others designing and implementing parliamentary support projects in new and emerging democratic parliaments.