[{"bbox": [141, 152, 1134, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "providing electoral assistance in South Sudan, to avoid duplication, maintain coherence of overall support and maximise collective use of resources through complementary actions, including the African Union."}, {"bbox": [141, 243, 1134, 458], "category": "Text", "text": "Key project stakeholders have been consulted in the formulation of this Action, and where national strategies or policies exist, these have been incorporated into its outputs. Key stakeholders will be consulted in the development of annual workplans and will be provided with the opportunity to identify priorities. Activities will largely be envisaged and executed in partnership with project stakeholders and in such cases, concepts, agendas, knowledge products and reports will be developed in coordination with (the) lead stakeholder(s). Members of the public may be engaged through activities involving key project stakeholders and potentially through public perception surveys. Gender equality, human rights, IHL and human rights-based approach (HRBA) expertise will be ensured during the implementation of the Action as possible."}, {"bbox": [141, 495, 1134, 573], "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, 609, 684, 642], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [130, 675, 476, 707], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [141, 727, 1134, 942], "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 (for project modality) and the partner's strategy, policy or reform action plan list (for budget support)."}, {"bbox": [141, 979, 1134, 1060], "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, 1097, 787, 1125], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring:"}, {"bbox": [141, 1151, 1134, 1284], "category": "Text", "text": "The data collection, analysis and monitoring for the indicators in the logical framework will be the responsibility of the implementing partner. Thus, the logical framework will be aligned with the results framework of the intervention. Gender equality is a cross cutting issue for the action and indicators shall, when relevant, be disaggregated at least by sex. Also the monitoring and reporting shall assess how the action is taking into account the human rights-based approach and gender mainstreaming."}, {"bbox": [141, 1310, 1134, 1364], "category": "Text", "text": "The participation of stakeholders will be ensured at the contracting level, including specific provisions on the involvement and approach towards stakeholders and right holders of the interventions."}, {"bbox": [130, 1378, 311, 1405], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [141, 1423, 1134, 1504], "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 and/or through a joint mission contracted by the Commission and/or via an implementing partner."}, {"bbox": [141, 1529, 1134, 1610], "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 South Sudan is going through a transitional period where an election would be the first electoral process since the country's independence."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 21 of 23"}]