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.

This Staff Working Document is the tenth in a series of annual progress reports drafted since 2003 (previ-ously labelled ‘Monterrey report’). Building on previous reports, it assesses where the EU and its Member States stand in relation to their common commitments on financing for...

Recently, EU Commission adopted a decision to fund a Technical Cooperation Facility for OCTs in order to improve their capacities to formulate and implement key territorial policies. Improvement in statistical capacities appeared with a high rank. Indeed, OCTs have noticed several gaps in their...

The 2009 European Report on Development analyses the costs and characteristics of fragility (Section 1), the capacity of fragile countries to cope with negative shocks such as the 2008-09 financial crisis (Section 2), and the EU’s current engagement with fragile countries as well as the...

The European Commission (EC) Delegation in Sri Lanka has commissioned the Dialogue Consortium to carry out a mid-term evaluation (MTE) of its Micro-Projects programme carried out under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR). The MTE was carried out in October 2008 and...

This review presents the findings and recommendations of an overview of recent work and research on closing the gender policy-practice gap in development co-operation. The objectives of this review are to: identify lessons from recent research as a basis for assisting the European Commission in...

‘Mine action’ is a generic term which includes any of the following range of activities: mine risk education, minefield survey assessment and marking, mine detection, mine clearance, destruction of stockpiled mines, assistance to mine victims including rehabilitation and reintegration,...