[{"bbox": [141, 153, 758, 180], "category": "Text", "text": "The implementing partners will be responsible for the organisation."}, {"bbox": [141, 191, 427, 216], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2. Technical Committee"}, {"bbox": [141, 223, 1133, 384], "category": "Text", "text": "A Technical Committee (TC) will be created to facilitate discussions on technical aspects of the action's implementation. The technical committee will contribute to the exchange of experiences and information, guaranteeing that all activities are tailored to the identified needs and are relevant to the political and social context of the country. The technical committee will meet quarterly and be co-chaired by the technical leads/implementing partners and the EU. It will include relevant stakeholders (training providers and private sector representatives) and national technical representatives."}, {"bbox": [141, 395, 1133, 477], "category": "Text", "text": "Day-to-day implementation and management of the programme will fall to the implementation partner, which will be required to provide technical assistants and staff (including a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and Financial Management Officer) in line with the arrangements and requirements in the cooperation agreement."}, {"bbox": [141, 488, 1133, 568], "category": "Text", "text": "Technical expertise on gender equality and human rights-based approach will be ensured during the implementation of the intervention. At a minimum, this expertise will be integrated in relevant technical assistance and capacity building activities and documents (i.e. ToRs, etc.)."}, {"bbox": [129, 601, 683, 634], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [129, 667, 475, 699], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [141, 714, 1133, 1060], "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 partners' responsibilities. To this aim, the implementing partner(s) shall establish a permanent internal, technical, and financial monitoring system for the action and create regular progress reports (every six months) and final reports. The implementing partners shall ensure that gender equity is well embedded in the programme design and mainstreamed in its implementation. Every report shall provide an accurate account of the action's implementation. Reports will include gender considerations, difficulties encountered, and changes introduced. Reports will also detail to which degree the results have been achieved (outputs and direct outcomes), measured by corresponding indicators, and using the logframe matrix as a reference. The 6 months report shall include a six-month workplan, which will be discussed at the TC. Its template will be agreed with the implementing partners at the starting of the programme. The annual report shall include a 12-months workplan that will be discussed at the PSC. Indicators shall be disaggregated at least by sex. Annual monitoring and reporting shall assess how the action is taking into account the human rights-based approach and gender equality."}, {"bbox": [141, 1071, 1133, 1228], "category": "Text", "text": "It is anticipated that more than one contract will be signed for the implementation of the action. Nevertheless, the reporting cycle of each contract will be aligned to ensure an adequate narrative report at the programme/action level. The implementing partners would work collaboratively with the objective to submit a single annual report and work-plan for the upcoming period. Detailed instructions for reporting will be included in each specific contract to ensure homogeneity of information, structure, and aligned timeline for submission."}, {"bbox": [141, 1243, 1133, 1324], "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, 1335, 957, 1362], "category": "Text", "text": "The roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis, and monitoring are as follows:"}, {"bbox": [141, 1373, 1133, 1533], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will ensure that there is a systematic M&E system covering the overall programme, as well as specific M&E systems to capture each component's own progress towards implementation. The M&E system will properly integrate gender considerations to ensure that there is correct reporting with information disaggregated by sex and age. The setting of the M&E systems will be agreed upon in close association between EUD and each implementing partner. Regular M&E documentation will be provided by the IPs (bi-annually or quarterly) to ensure a comprehensive follow-up and assessment."}, {"bbox": [141, 1545, 1133, 1626], "category": "Text", "text": "The identification of the baselines and the collection of data will be the responsibility of each implementing partner. M&E focal points should also be identified within each of the institutional beneficiaries, to facilitate data gathering and collection, and to smoothen the overall process."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 30 of 33"}]