[{"bbox": [141, 153, 1135, 285], "category": "Text", "text": "be composed of several staff that will be in charge of establishing the necessary conditions for the implementation of the activities. It should include at least one Team Leader, one accountant, one M&E expert, one communication expert. It may resort to the hiring of technical assistance (national and international), trainers (national and international) and partnerships and/or service provision contracts with local institutes/organisations/incubators/companies for implementation of parts of the activities."}, {"bbox": [141, 325, 1135, 401], "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."}, {"bbox": [130, 438, 683, 469], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [130, 504, 474, 535], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [141, 557, 1135, 769], "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 at an annual basis and final report. 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. Indicators shall be disaggregated at least by sex. All monitoring and reporting shall assess how the action is taking into account the human rights-based approach and gender equality."}, {"bbox": [141, 775, 1135, 854], "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": [141, 860, 1135, 1020], "category": "Text", "text": "The performance of the programme will also be closely monitored by the Steering Committee through reviewing annual progress reports. Implementing partners will present a summary of project implementation progress and the Steering Committee will discuss at strategic level and provide direction in addressing key challenges. In addition, when negotiating contracts, the Commission and implementing partners will align with the logframe matrix in this Action Document, and implementing partners will provide baseline and suggest targets."}, {"bbox": [141, 1053, 1135, 1264], "category": "Text", "text": "Collection of data will be ensured by the implementing partner. The choice of measurable indicators for tracking the programme performance has been done considering the availability of data sources which are not abundant in Mozambique in this sector. For this purpose, all activities funded by the action will need to preview the respective data collection and monitoring process notably via making use of standard surveys and registration forms provided by the implementing partner. Moreover, in what comes to the outcomes and overall impact measurement, the implementing partner will have the responsibility to follow up with the project beneficiaries in order to identify and understand the resulting impacts of the activities, notably by making use of surveys and qualitative interviews."}, {"bbox": [130, 1306, 308, 1332], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [141, 1353, 1135, 1405], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the nature of the action, a final evaluation may be carried out for this action or its components via independent consultants contracted by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [141, 1408, 1135, 1464], "category": "Text", "text": "It will be carried out for accountability and learning purposes at various levels (including for policy revision), taking into account in particular the fact that if successful, the activities could be expanded in a later project."}, {"bbox": [141, 1497, 1135, 1581], "category": "Text", "text": "All evaluation shall assess to what extent the action is taking into account the human rights-based approach as well as how it contributes to gender equality and women's empowerment. Expertise on human rights and gender equality will be ensured in the evaluation teams."}, {"bbox": [624, 1653, 650, 1676], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "22"}]