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The Blue Economy (BE) Programme for Tanzania was developed under the Annual Action Plan for 2022 by the EU Delegation. The program aims to promote sustainable use of ocean, freshwater, and coastal resources for economic growth while preserving the environment. Key focus areas include environmental protection, climate-resilient management of coastal ecosystems, support for sustainable and job-intensive businesses in the blue economy, and transformative governance and policy reforms.

The duration of the Technical Assistance was 8 months, and the experts' team was based in Dodoma.

Achievements include supporting policy formulation, facilitating stakeholder meetings, contributing to the development of Marine Spatial Plan (MSP) guidelines, and assisting in the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of the Nationally Determined Contribution and Measurement Reporting and Verification (MRV) system.

The Climate Change Mitigation Support Program (PALCC) was launched on March 31, 2017, as part of the Global Alliance Against Climate Change (AMCC+), an initiative of the European Union. The program's total budget was €10.6 million, with 94.34% funded by the European Union (€10 million) and 5.66% by contributions from NGOs benefiting from grant contracts. PALCC's overall objective is to assist Togo in implementing a national response to climate change challenges, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, particularly addressing Goal 13 (Life on Land) and Goal 15 (Climate Action).

The specific objectives involve reducing Togo's climate vulnerability through measures for preserving forest resources, soil, and energy efficiency. Additionally, the program aims to enhance the institutional context related to climate change.

 CYE Consult provided the whole experts team. The evaluation deliverables included the final report and the production of two videos and four infographics focusing on the results achieved by the PALCC as well as the difficulties encountered.

The regional WIO programme on Blue Economy, Ocean governance and coastal conservation and restoration is planned to be part of the Annual Action Plan 2023. His overall objective is to support the identification and formulation of a regional initiative in the Western Indian Ocean, to support and boost a sustainable regional ocean governance and management. There were three specific objectives: (i) Analyse previous and ongoing interventions in the region, draw lessons, complete, develop and prioritise the geographic scope, the components/priorities of the regional programme; (ii) Propose the set-up of the regional programme, notably the implementation modalities, the relevant anchoring and architecture; (iii) Formulate of a draft Action Document.

The mission was carried out through several stages, including the inception phase/document analysis, field missions to the beneficiary countries located on the coasts of the Western Indian Ocean; synthesize the information collected and consolidate the results.

In a team composed by six senior experts, two of them were provided and managed by CYE Consult.

Environmental degradation and climate change are undermining progress in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The European Green Deal is the EU’s new flagship policy to achieve sustainable growth, the SDGs and the goals of the Paris Agreement. Mainstreaming environment and climate change in all areas of EU action is a central feature of the Green Deal. it is crucial that mainstreaming support covers all actions financed under the EU Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument and the related policy and programmatic work, as well as on-going programmes financed under the thematic and geographic financing instruments under the EU Multiannual Financing Framework (MFF) 2014-2020 (Development Cooperation Instrument, European Neighbourhood Instrument and European Development Fund). That’s why this evaluation was  significantly important. It provided a better understanding of how the current facility has contributed to the above mentioned overall high ambition as well as gave suggestions for further improvements in order to design a future cooperation that successfully contributes to the new EU’s objectives and targets (in particular, to allocate at least 35 % of EU funding under the 2021-2027 MFF to climate change related action, and to double external funding for biodiversity, in particular for the most vulnerable countries.

Rodrigues is an island in the Indian Ocean, part of the territory of the Republic of Mauritius.The vision of the Rodrigues Regional Assembly (RRA) is to transform Rodrigues into the first ecological and sustainable island in the Indian Ocean by 2030. This vision is centered on promoting sustainable development across three key pillars: economic, environmental, and social sectors. The goal is to enhance the island's development while improving the overall quality of life for all residents.

The strategy dvelopped in the Master Plan to achieve ths vision involves the sustainable utilization of resources and the implementation of practices in various sectors, including sustainable water production and distribution, bio agriculture, sustainable tourism, blue economy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable land use planning. The Master Plan provides a comprehensive, realistic, and clear long-term strategy spanning the period 2023-2033 to address the three main concerns of sustainable development: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, and social sustainability.

For these Consultancy Services, CYE managed three senior experts covering each of the following sectors : Water, Socio-economy aspects and Bio-agriculture.

In 2013 the Government of Honduras and the European Union signed the European Support Action for the Forestry Sector (EuroFor - DCI-ALA/2012/023-510). The Action is consisted with two components: A Climate Change Adaptation Action in the Forestry Sector (CliFor) with a total of € 21.4 million and a Budget Support Actionme (PAPSFor) with a total of € 26 million. The purpose of CLIFOR is to improve the socioeconomic well-being and environmental resilience of the local population in response to the challenges posed by climate change.  The programme has three outputs to achieve this purpose relating to the promotion of community forestry, improved local socioeconomic conditions and improved capacity to implement national polices and strategies related to forestry, climate change and biodiversity conservation. 

• Collect data from the projects and any other relevant sources to relate the results
• Draw conclusions about the achievement of implementation of the Programme
• Make recommendations on how to improve the impact of the Programme and orient future actions

• Performing the final evaluation
• Evaluation of the achievements and impact of the results of the project

The global objective of the project was to reduce the risk to people and the developed and natural environment from flooding and coastal erosion from the sea and the rivers by encouraging the provision of technically, environmentally and economically sound and sustainable defence measures.

The specific objectives were to provide a relevant set of multidisciplinary support services  in the management and supervision of outstanding construction works under the 9th EDF, particularly during the maintenance period and the initiation of the requisite preparatory work and the development of strategies for the implementation of 10th EDF Budget Support. 

Main activities include: 

• Provide guidance and assistance toward the project management and  monitoring of on-going activities
• Formulation of an implementation strategy for the Sea Defence Sector Policy 
• Provide support to the NAO's office in the finalisation of the 10th EDF Action Fiche  

• Formulation of the programme
• Elaboration of the following technical documents: Action Fiche, Logframe and Technical and Administrative Dispositions

The general objective of the PASILD ("Programme d’Accompagnement Structurant d’Initiatives Locales de Développement") is to structure and follow-up participative initiatives for integrated local development (environment, governance, gender). 

The mission was carried on within two distinct phases: the first allowed establishing an independent and global appraisal of the results reached by the PASILD at mid term, evaluating the methodology of its implementation and formulating recommendations regarding the evolution of the EU support in the field of local development in Chad. The second, in the framework of the implementation of the Country Strategy Paper and of the National Indicative Programme (10th EDF in Chad), consisted in the formulation of the Programme GRN/Local development and in the validation of the technical documents.

The principal objectives of the Programme are:
(i) Information: improve and implement information systems to adequately prevent from, anticipate and respond to natural disasters.
(ii) Preparedness: improve the assistance to the victims thanks to a decentralized answer that would be more efficient, timely and adapted to the requirements of the moment
(iii) Prevention: reduce the vulnerability of the country towards natural disasters by means of prevention measures through the use the state’s resources focusing on risks and a major control of forest fires. The efforts of the Programme aim at fostering the Government institutions in charge of Risk Management.

The goal of the mid term evaluation was to provide the Dominican Republic Government, the EC Delegation, the PNUD and all the partners of the Programme sufficient information to:

• Have a general independent evaluation on the results of the Programme
• Identify the lessons learned and propose recommendations to continue the implementation of the Programme, including its possible reorientation.

The objective was to analyze the concept of the Programme and the conjectural changes of the context, to valorize the progresses to date and to gather information to adjust the planning of the support to the sustainable economic development in mining and non-mining domains of activities with a view to future management.

The ACP-EU Facility for Water pursues two specific objectives: (1) Improved governance of water and sanitation installations and the management of water resources at regional/transboundary, national and local levels, and (2) increase access to safe, affordable and sustainable water and sanitation services for the rural and urban poor, through the provision of catalytic funding for infrastructure and services. The fundamental mechanism of the Facility implementation is the Call for Proposals on three components: (i) the co-financing of the water management and governance improvement, (ii) the co-financing of infrastructure in the water and sanitation domain and (iii) the co-financing of civil society and decentralized co-operation initiatives.

Mid term evaluation of an EC financed project (22 M EUR) including upgrading and extension of water and wastewater networks (110.000 inh), WWTP, institutional re-structuring of the operator, technical assistance to the Municipality in urban planning and managing of water public services.

Assistance to ISPA Unit of the Ministry for the elaboration of priority criteria according to ISPA strategy, and list fixing of projects to be included in the pipeline for 2004-2006. Elaboration of Terms of reference for various service contracts, and assistance to the Ministry to improve quality of the documents submitted to ISPA Committee by ISPA Beneficiary entities.

The rehabilitation Programme treated hydraulic infrastructures and environmental protection (small barrages, rivers regulation, banks protection, drainage canals, sewerage and water supply networks) damaged by the catastrophic floods of September 2002.

The mission concerns six environmental ISPA projects in Slovakia providing new or upgraded wastewater treatment plants, and associated upgrading or extensions to sewerage networks. Description of the existing institutional structure and analysis of the possibilities to implement a Public-Private partnership scheme (PPP) to operate and manage public water and sanitation services at regional level.

Revision of tender documents related to sewerage networks and WWTPs, with the objective of ensuring fair and transparent service and works tenders in conformity with PRAG rules and FIDIC Contractual Conditions.

Programme which lasts several years (2002 – 2006) financed with European cooperation funds (45 millions EUR). The programme focuses the improvement of public water and sanitation services and the strengthening of the structures responsible for activities of natural disaster prevention, promoting the creation of an association of municipalities.

This project aims to improve the living conditions of 64.500 inhabitants belonging to poor rural communities of the Paute river basin. The project offers to help these communities to access basic public services, to increase their capacity to create resources, to reduce their vulnerability to hydro geological risks and to create a Watershed Agency. The total cost of the project was estimated to 14 millions EUR, where 11 millions are of EC origin.