[{"bbox": [85, 153, 640, 187], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [85, 219, 432, 251], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [96, 271, 1136, 406], "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."}, {"bbox": [96, 410, 1136, 491], "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": [96, 495, 1136, 551], "category": "Text", "text": "The Delegation will establish internal procedures for planning and monitoring the activities under this Action. Likewise the Delegation will report on a yearly basis on the activities implemented under this facility."}, {"bbox": [85, 564, 267, 592], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [96, 610, 1136, 665], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the nature of the action, no ex-post evaluation(s) will be carried out for this action or its components."}, {"bbox": [96, 667, 1136, 812], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation reports shall be shared with the partner country and other key stakeholders following the best practice of evaluation dissemination⁴. The implementing partner and the Commission shall analyse the conclusions and recommendations of the evaluations and, where appropriate, in agreement with the partner country, jointly decide on the follow-up actions to be taken and any adjustments necessary, including, if indicated, the reorientation of the project."}, {"bbox": [85, 824, 406, 853], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.3 Audit and Verifications"}, {"bbox": [96, 871, 1136, 951], "category": "Text", "text": "Without prejudice to the obligations applicable to contracts concluded for the implementation of this action, the Commission may, on the basis of a risk assessment, contract independent audit or verification assignments for one or several contracts or agreements."}, {"bbox": [85, 978, 1026, 1013], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 6 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY"}, {"bbox": [96, 1044, 1136, 1099], "category": "Text", "text": "The 2021-2027 programming cycle will adopt a new approach to pooling, programming and deploying strategic communication and public diplomacy resources."}, {"bbox": [96, 1124, 1107, 1152], "category": "Text", "text": "Regional and global strategic communication and public diplomacy funds will be managed from headquarters."}, {"bbox": [96, 1177, 1136, 1309], "category": "Text", "text": "At country level, action documents for specific sector programmes are no longer required to include a provision for communication actions promoting the programmes concerned. These resources will instead-be consolidated in Cooperation Facilities established by support measure action documents, allowing Delegations to plan and execute multiannual strategic communication and public diplomacy actions with sufficient critical mass to be effective on a national scale."}, {"bbox": [96, 1322, 1136, 1483], "category": "Text", "text": "To that end, the delegation in Sierra Leone will first develop short strategic communication and public diplomacy plans that reflect the objectives of the Delegation as a whole in this domain, initially covering the period up to the Mid-Term Review (MTR). The plan will be endorsed by a coordination mechanism comprised of the European External Action Service (EEAS), the department for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) and the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI), and will be reviewed, modified and extended as appropriate as part of the MTR process."}, {"bbox": [96, 1494, 1136, 1574], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU is well known in Sierra Leone and enjoys a solid reputation as a privileged partner. However, knowledge about its wide range of interventions and actions is limited even for these deployed in the country. The awareness and understanding of the role of the EU as a global actor also critically need to be enhanced."}, {"bbox": [85, 1620, 538, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ See best [practice of evaluation dissemination](#)"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 16 of 17"}]