[{"bbox": [85, 121, 628, 153], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [130, 187, 463, 218], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1. Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [97, 246, 1134, 406], "category": "Text", "text": "The day-to-day technical and financial monitoring of this action will be a continuous process, and part of the implementing partner's responsibilities. To this aim, the implementing partners shall establish a permanent internal, technical and financial monitoring system for the whole action, 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": [97, 418, 1134, 498], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission will 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": [97, 509, 1134, 564], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring will fall under the responsibility of the implementing partners."}, {"bbox": [97, 575, 1134, 656], "category": "Text", "text": "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. Monitoring and evaluation will be based on indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, disability when applicable."}, {"bbox": [97, 667, 1038, 695], "category": "Text", "text": "Human rights and gender equality competence will be ensured in the monitoring and evaluation teams."}, {"bbox": [130, 721, 298, 749], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2. Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [97, 780, 1134, 833], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the importance of the action, mid-term and final evaluations will be carried out for this action or its components via independent consultants contracted by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [97, 844, 1134, 900], "category": "Text", "text": "The mid-term evaluation will be carried out for problem solving and learning purposes, in particular with respect to possible reorientations of the project for the latter years of implementation."}, {"bbox": [97, 911, 1134, 1017], "category": "Text", "text": "The final evaluation will be carried out for accountability and learning purposes at various levels (including for policy revision), taking into account in particular the fact that access to justice is supported by EU for a long time and both the justice sector as well as the prisons are new areas of intervention for the EU building on Netherlands' experience."}, {"bbox": [97, 1029, 1134, 1084], "category": "Text", "text": "Evaluations can be done jointly with other Member States and European Development Finance Institutions engaged in the action."}, {"bbox": [97, 1096, 1134, 1203], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission shall inform the implementing partners at least 3 months in advance of the dates envisaged for the evaluation missions. The implementing partners shall collaborate efficiently and effectively with the evaluation experts, and inter alia provide them with all necessary information and documentation, as well as access to the project premises and activities."}, {"bbox": [97, 1214, 1134, 1348], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation reports will be shared with the partner country and other key stakeholders following the best practice of evaluation dissemination. The implementing partners and the Commission shall analyze 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": [97, 1359, 716, 1387], "category": "Text", "text": "Evaluation services may be contracted under a framework contract."}, {"bbox": [130, 1413, 435, 1441], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.3. Audit and Verifications"}, {"bbox": [97, 1459, 1134, 1539], "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": [1016, 1654, 1144, 1681], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 23 of 25"}]