[{"bbox": [85, 153, 639, 187], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [85, 219, 432, 251], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [97, 272, 1135, 405], "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."}, {"bbox": [97, 411, 1134, 490], "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": [97, 496, 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 (applying all human rights for all; meaningful and inclusive participation and access to decision-making; non-discrimination and equality; accountability and rule of law for all; and transparency and access to information supported by disaggregated data). Monitoring and evaluation will be based on indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, disability and area (urban/rural), when applicable."}, {"bbox": [97, 662, 989, 689], "category": "Text", "text": "Human rights and gender equality competence is ensured in the monitoring and evaluation teams."}, {"bbox": [97, 695, 744, 722], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring:"}, {"bbox": [97, 728, 1134, 807], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU, national authorities and the implementing partners of the Action will be jointly responsible for monitoring and reporting on indicators of the logframe matrix, including the collection of baselines and regular and endline data collection, which can be supported by specific monitoring and evaluation missions."}, {"bbox": [97, 813, 1134, 867], "category": "Text", "text": "Data collection and reporting is under the responsibility of the implementing partners. Specific studies supporting data collection may also be funded under the regular budget of the Action (budget lines grants or procurement)."}, {"bbox": [97, 873, 1134, 926], "category": "Text", "text": "Active and meaningful participation of stakeholders in the democratic governance and human rights sectors, including their identification, will be sought, via regular exchanges with national authorities and civil society."}, {"bbox": [97, 932, 1134, 1091], "category": "Text", "text": "The Distributional Impact Assessment tool (DIA) could be applied, as a data source whenever other sources (national, regional, local data) are not available to monitor whether expected outputs have, to a large extent, benefited the bottom poorest 40 % income or wealth, or socio-economically disadvantaged groups, households and individuals. The DIA can also be performed at the start of the implementation phase to a) locate where the most vulnerable live and target them geographically; b) identify main drivers of inequalities (e.g. reasons for not accessing some services) c) unveil intersectionalities (e.g. bottom 40 income who are women, children, etc.)"}, {"bbox": [85, 1111, 267, 1139], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [97, 1158, 1134, 1212], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the importance and nature of the Action, a final evaluation will be carried out for this action or its components via independent consultants contracted via an implementing partner."}, {"bbox": [97, 1224, 1134, 1305], "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 it will be necessary to verify, in particular, whether the action has been able to strengthen the capacities of national authorities and civil society actors in a sustainable way."}, {"bbox": [97, 1316, 1134, 1396], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation reports may be shared with the partners and other key stakeholders following the best practice of evaluation dissemination. The implementing partner and the Commission shall analyse the conclusions and recommendations of the evaluations and, where appropriate, apply the necessary adjustments."}, {"bbox": [97, 1407, 1039, 1435], "category": "Text", "text": "The financing of the evaluation may be covered by another measure constituting a Financing Decision."}, {"bbox": [97, 1446, 1134, 1528], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation plan (or component in the foreseen evaluation) should assess the distributional impact of activities undertaken on the bottom (poorest) 40 per cent or socio-economically disadvantaged individuals, households or groups. This can be done through the Distributional Impact Assessment tool (DIA)."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 17 of 19"}]