[{"bbox": [83, 120, 1146, 307], "category": "Text", "text": "of the country. The Technical Committee will meet at least once a month and will be chaired by the EU Delegation. It will comprise representatives of the EUD, Ministry of planning, all institutional beneficiaries and all heads of the 6 components of EU-SDGN II. The heads of components as well as project's experts will work in close collaboration with the technical committee in order to maximize information exchange as well as to enhance the collaboration with the project beneficiaries. This mechanism will allow the implementation an inclusive approach oriented toward greater ownership of results by the beneficiaries. The Project Technical Committee may decide to set up sub-committees upon request, to facilitate the coordination between partners and cross-component actions."}, {"bbox": [83, 332, 1146, 410], "category": "Text", "text": "Within each of the components where more than one IP is involved, there will be intra-component coordination meetings, meeting at least once a month, to ensure that the implementation is following the right track and to allow for continuous coordination."}, {"bbox": [83, 437, 1146, 516], "category": "Text", "text": "Gender equality, human rights and human rights based approach expertise will be ensured during the implementation of the intervention as possible. They will also be integrated in relevant technical assistance and capacity building activities and documents (i.e. Terms of Reference (ToRs) etc)."}, {"bbox": [73, 546, 616, 579], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [87, 609, 410, 641], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [83, 652, 1146, 812], "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": [83, 838, 1146, 919], "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": [83, 944, 728, 972], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring:"}, {"bbox": [83, 997, 1146, 1158], "category": "Text", "text": "Based on lessons learnt from EUSDGN I and the Evaluation results, the Action shall ensure that there is a systematic M&E system covering the overall project, as well as specific M&E systems to capture each component's own progress towards implementation. The development of these component-level M&E systems shall be done in close association between EUD and each component leader IP. Yearly M&E sessions shall be set up at the level of the project, including the institutional beneficiaries' representatives, and regular M&E documentation shall be provided by the IPs (bi-annually or quarterly) to ensure a comprehensive follow-up and assessment."}, {"bbox": [83, 1183, 1146, 1450], "category": "Text", "text": "The identification of the baselines and the collection of data shall be the responsibility of each IP leader while the overall M&E indicators follow-up shall be done by the EUD, with dedicated funds and staff, working closely with the M&E staff from each of the implementers. M&E focal points should also be identified within each of the institutional beneficiaries, to facilitate data gathering and collection, and smoothen the overall process. Monitoring and evaluation will assess gender equality results, an impact on rights of groups living in the most vulnerable situations and the implementation of the rights based approach working principles (applying all human rights for all; meaningful and inclusive participation and access to decision-making; non-discrimination and equality; accountability and rule of law for all; and transparency and access to information supported by disaggregated data). Monitoring and evaluation will be based on indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, disability and group when applicable."}, {"bbox": [83, 1474, 973, 1501], "category": "Text", "text": "Human rights and gender equality competence is ensured in the monitoring and evaluation teams."}, {"bbox": [87, 1519, 243, 1547], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [83, 1564, 1146, 1617], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the importance and nature of the action, a mid-term and final evaluations will be carried out for this action or its components via independent consultants contracted by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [1040, 1661, 1158, 1685], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 28 of 29"}]