[{"bbox": [85, 154, 639, 187], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [85, 220, 431, 251], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [96, 272, 1134, 406], "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": [96, 411, 1134, 491], "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, 499, 266, 526], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [96, 546, 1134, 599], "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 contracted by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [96, 611, 1134, 692], "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 the action aims at contributing to a stronger and more effective EU-Bolivia partnership."}, {"bbox": [96, 702, 1134, 811], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission shall inform the implementing partner at least one month in advance of the dates envisaged for the evaluation missions. The implementing partner 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": [96, 821, 1134, 902], "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": [96, 913, 1039, 941], "category": "Text", "text": "The financing of the evaluation may be covered by another measure constituting a Financing Decision."}, {"bbox": [85, 967, 405, 995], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.3 Audit and Verifications"}, {"bbox": [96, 1013, 1134, 1094], "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": [85, 1134, 1025, 1167], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 6 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY"}, {"bbox": [96, 1199, 1123, 1254], "category": "Text", "text": "The 2021-2027 programming cycle will adopt a new approach to pooling, programming and deploying strategic communication and public diplomacy resources."}, {"bbox": [96, 1265, 1107, 1293], "category": "Text", "text": "Regional and global strategic communication and public diplomacy funds will be managed from headquarters."}, {"bbox": [96, 1304, 1134, 1435], "category": "Text", "text": "At country level, action documents for specific sector programmes are no longer required to include a provision for communication actions promoting the programmes concerned. These resources will instead be consolidated in Cooperation Facilities established by support measure action documents, allowing Delegations to plan and execute multiannual strategic communication and public diplomacy actions with sufficient critical mass to be effective on a national scale."}, {"bbox": [96, 1449, 1134, 1557], "category": "Text", "text": "To that end, Delegation will first develop short strategic communication and public diplomacy plans that reflect the objectives of the Delegation as a whole in this domain, initially covering the period up to the Mid-Term Review (MTR). The plans will be endorsed by a coordination mechanism comprised of the EEAS, DG INTPA, DG NEAR and FPI, and will be reviewed, modified and extended as appropriate as part of the MTR process."}, {"bbox": [96, 1568, 853, 1596], "category": "Text", "text": "It is envisaged that a contract for communication and visibility may be contracted."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 12"}]