[{"bbox": [140, 152, 1136, 314], "category": "Text", "text": "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": [140, 349, 1136, 432], "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": [140, 469, 1136, 637], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring: The Programme Coordination Unit will develop a monitoring system relying on a structured data collection process informing progress against indicators referred in the logframe matrix, on an annual basis. This system will rely on the information provided by institutions on the achievements several national and external sources, such as national statistics, data provided in the annual (performance) reports of the beneficiary institutions and coordinating bodies."}, {"bbox": [140, 662, 1136, 911], "category": "Text", "text": "Baselines and targets will be established primarily based on the data collected during the first phase of the RoLAC and through other surveys and needs/capacity assessments at inception phase and during the first year of implementation. Detailed annual plans and a results framework will be developed every year in consultation with Programme Steering Committee (PSC) and Programme Technical Committee (PTC) representatives in order to allow alignment with the respective strategies and plans of the stakeholders and allow the coordinating bodies to be in charge of the reforms agendas to track the performance. Annual external experts' assessments, including surveys of programme stakeholders and beneficiaries, such as those carried out under RoLAC I, will be carried out to track the progress on programme outputs and will serve as end line data to verify the achievement on targets, allowing an annual update of the logframe."}, {"bbox": [140, 936, 1136, 993], "category": "Text", "text": "This monitoring system will also integrate SDGs indicators and targets set by the Nigeria Government and includes systematic sex and age data disaggregation."}, {"bbox": [140, 1018, 1136, 1159], "category": "Text", "text": "The implementing partner will develop with the National Judicial Institute and the other training schools/ academies a learning mechanism that evaluates at short-term and mid-term intervals the transfer of knowledge and skills delivered to the beneficiary institutions and the changes occurred in their respective functions. Both monitoring and learning systems will allow progressive adjustments to the programme and enable a regular dissemination of results and lessons learnt to the partner institutions."}, {"bbox": [130, 1172, 312, 1201], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [140, 1219, 1136, 1274], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the importance of the action, a mid-term and a final evaluation(s) will be carried out for this action or its components via independent consultants contracted by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [140, 1299, 1136, 1406], "category": "Text", "text": "A mid-term evaluation will be carried out for problem solving and learning purposes, in particular with respect to assessment of the progress achieved and weaknesses observed and proceed with eventual adjustments of the intervention and / or the approach to be undertaken (including the rights-based and gender-based approach) during the second phase."}, {"bbox": [140, 1431, 1136, 1539], "category": "Text", "text": "A final evaluation is envisaged will be carried out for accountability and learning purposes at various levels (including for policy revision), taking into account in particular the efficiency and effectiveness of the intervention as well as an early impact analysis of its results to guide future decision on the continuous support of the EU in the justice and AC sectors."}, {"bbox": [140, 1568, 1136, 1626], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission shall inform the implementing partner at least 30 days in advance of the dates envisaged for the evaluation missions. The implementing partner shall collaborate efficiently and effectively with the"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 27 of 29"}]