[{"bbox": [129, 153, 653, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.7 Organisational Set-up and Responsibilities"}, {"bbox": [140, 206, 1135, 339], "category": "Text", "text": "The implementation partner is responsible for setting-up and managing the meetings of the technical coordination team and the steering committee, both to be held twice per year (either virtually or in-person). Details regarding timelines, responsibilities and expected outcomes can be retrieved from the Cooperation Guidelines which will be developed at the onset of the Action in order to have a common reference for all interaction between stakeholders involved in the implementation of the Action."}, {"bbox": [140, 344, 1135, 452], "category": "Text", "text": "As part of its prerogative of budget implementation and to safeguard the financial interests of the Union, the Commission may participate in the above governance structures set up for governing the implementation of the action and may sign or enter into joint declarations or statements, for the purpose of enhancing the visibility of the EU and its contribution to this action and ensuring effective coordination."}, {"bbox": [129, 484, 686, 518], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [129, 550, 477, 583], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [140, 603, 1136, 791], "category": "Text", "text": "The day-to-day technical and financial monitoring of the implementation of this action will be a continuous process, and part of the implementing partner's responsibilities. To this aim, the implementing partner shall establish a permanent internal, technical and financial monitoring system for the action and elaborate regular progress reports (not less than annual) and final reports. Every report shall provide an accurate account of implementation of the action, difficulties encountered, changes introduced, as well as the degree of achievement of its results (Outputs and direct Outcomes) as measured by corresponding indicators, using as reference the logframe matrix."}, {"bbox": [140, 800, 1135, 883], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission may undertake additional project monitoring visits both through its own staff and through independent consultants recruited directly by the Commission for independent monitoring reviews (or recruited by the responsible agent contracted by the Commission for implementing such reviews)."}, {"bbox": [140, 893, 789, 922], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring:"}, {"bbox": [140, 932, 1135, 1120], "category": "Text", "text": "Baseline and endline data will be collected via third-party experts in order to lay the grounds for successful monitoring of the Action's interventions. The implementation partner will be responsible for procurement and management of this consultancy to be covered by project funds. Monitoring and evaluation will be based on indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, disability when applicable. Human rights and gender equality competence is ensured in the monitoring and evaluation teams. The development of surveys to collect relevant information will equally fall under the responsibility of the implementation partner and be financed under the regular budget of the Action."}, {"bbox": [140, 1130, 1135, 1239], "category": "Text", "text": "All monitoring and reporting shall assess how well the action promotes the principle of gender equality which lies at the heart of this programme and takes a human rights-based approach and enables the rights of persons with disabilities including through strengthening inclusion and diversity. Data collected, where appropriate and possible, will be disaggregated by sex and age, and by disability if tenable."}, {"bbox": [140, 1249, 1135, 1384], "category": "Text", "text": "All other monitoring, data collection and reporting tasks are to be taken up by the project staff available to the implementation partner. Ugandan counterparts will be crucially involved in these exercises, as the availability of accurate economic and mining-related data depends on access to their records. Active and meaningful participation of stakeholders will be ensured by showcasing the significant leveraging effect of data transparency on donor satisfaction and private sector trust-building."}, {"bbox": [129, 1408, 311, 1438], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [140, 1454, 1135, 1563], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the importance of the action, a final evaluation will be carried out for this action via independent consultants contracted by the Commission or the implementing partner.\nThe final evaluation will be carried out for accountability and learning purposes at various levels (including for policy revision)."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1144, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 23 of 25"}]