[{"bbox": [85, 122, 655, 154], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [85, 175, 433, 206], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [85, 221, 1144, 391], "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 partners 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."}, {"bbox": [85, 409, 1144, 493], "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": [85, 511, 1144, 596], "category": "Text", "text": "The baseline and target data will be refined at the beginning of the implementation of this action. The Steering Committees will establish the appropriate monitoring and reporting arrangements among implementers regarding responsibilities, timing, and source of funding."}, {"bbox": [85, 614, 1144, 756], "category": "Text", "text": "Progress monitoring will follow EU guidelines and standards and will be based on the logical framework and the established indicators. Several indicators require a baseline survey and a final data collection survey. The implementing partners will be responsible for making sure that these surveys are carried out by contractors in a timely manner (at the beginning of activities in the case of baseline surveys and at the end of them for final data collection surveys)."}, {"bbox": [85, 774, 1144, 916], "category": "Text", "text": "All monitoring and reporting shall assess how the action is taking into account the human rights based approach gender equality, and inequality-reduction markers based on the logical framework matrix indicators. Indicators shall be disaggregated at least by sex and age, and disability if possible. Reports shall be laid out in such a way as to allow monitoring of the means envisaged and employed and of the budget details for the action. The final report, narrative and financial, will cover the entire period of the action's implementation."}, {"bbox": [85, 934, 1144, 989], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will be overseen by the EU Delegation to Guatemala through day to day programme monitoring activities, visits, and its participation in the Steering Committee and in the events related to planned activities."}, {"bbox": [85, 1009, 254, 1036], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [85, 1058, 1144, 1142], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the importance of the action, a mid-term review and final evaluation will be carried out for this action (financed by a different decision) or its components through joint missions to provide an overview of the action within the larger impact of the TEI."}, {"bbox": [85, 1160, 1144, 1216], "category": "Text", "text": "The mid-term evaluation will be carried out for problem solving and learning purposes, in particular with respect to the TEI approach."}, {"bbox": [85, 1234, 1144, 1290], "category": "Text", "text": "The final evaluation will be carried out for accountability and learning purposes at various levels, taking into account in particular the fact that a part of the intervention will be implemented through a TEI logic."}, {"bbox": [85, 1308, 1144, 1362], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation reports may be shared with the partners and other key stakeholders following the best practice of evaluation dissemination."}, {"bbox": [85, 1382, 1144, 1467], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition, all evaluations shall assess to what extent the action is taking into account the human rights-based approach as well as how it contributes to gender equality and women's empowerment and disability inclusion. Expertise on human rights, disability and gender equality will be ensured in the evaluation teams."}, {"bbox": [1028, 1682, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 37 of 39"}]