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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.

Main activities:

•  Advisory service on all aspects of evaluation methodology and processes
• Facilitation and coordination service for the Evaluation Coorespondent's Network
• Quality Assurance service
• Service to promote knowledge uptake and innovative evaluation practice within DEVCO 

Main activities:

• Technical evaluation of concept notes
• Technical and financial evaluation of full applications

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  

The Programme aims at supporting the initiatives proposed and/or implemented by civil society organizations and local authorities originated from the Community and from partner countries in the field of Development.
The overall objective of the consultancy was to enable the European Commission to co finance the best proposals according to criteria established in the Calls for proposals by supporting the services concerned at administrative and qualitative levels (relevance, effectiveness, feasibility, sustainability, impact, financial and operational capacity, methodology, budget and cost-effectiveness) in the evaluation of proposals.

The ACP-EC facility for energy is part of the EU commitment –in the framework of the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals –aiming to eradicate poverty and to promote sustainable development, as well as to facilitate provision of adequate energy services, in a way which is both affordable and respectful of the environment. The Facility was given a total of EUR 220 million. National and local government, municipalities, organizations of civil society and decentralized co-operation submitted projects proposals.

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.