[{"bbox": [141, 152, 1135, 233], "category": "Text", "text": "**Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacities:** This action foresees to provide support to and strengthen the M&E capacities of local actors/CSOs to monitor progress. All implementing partners will put adequate resources in place to ensure appropriate monitoring and evaluation."}, {"bbox": [141, 244, 1135, 352], "category": "Text", "text": "**Remote monitoring:** Given the current context and its volatility, it is a risk that the ongoing conflict will limit further the possibility of direct monitoring from the entrusted entity on the ground. Mitigating measures and sound plans and procedures for remote monitoring will be established by the implementing partners from the inception period of the programme to be immediately deployed should the situation requires it."}, {"bbox": [141, 363, 1135, 445], "category": "Text", "text": "**Stakeholder participation:** Community consultations will be undertaken as part of the action to ensure context specific response. Reinforcing WROs and local CSOs' capacity to participate and engage in GBV response planning and coordination mechanism is a central component of the action."}, {"bbox": [130, 482, 312, 510], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [141, 535, 1135, 589], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the nature of the action, a mid-term and/or final evaluation(s) may be carried out for this action or its components via independent consultants."}, {"bbox": [141, 600, 1135, 682], "category": "Text", "text": "A mid-term evaluation may be carried out for problem solving and learning purposes, in particular with respect to monitoring the level to which the action support and contribute to build the capacities of local CSOs and in particular local WROs."}, {"bbox": [141, 693, 1135, 774], "category": "Text", "text": "A final evaluation may be carried out for accountability and learning purposes at various levels (including for policy revision), taking into account in particular the contribution of the action to reaching the objectives set in the Gender Action Plan III (GAP III) and to the Country Level Implementation Plan in Myanmar."}, {"bbox": [141, 785, 1135, 866], "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": [141, 879, 1083, 908], "category": "Text", "text": "The financing of the evaluation may be covered by another measure constituting a Financing Decision."}, {"bbox": [130, 945, 449, 974], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.3 Audit and Verifications"}, {"bbox": [141, 998, 1135, 1080], "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": [130, 1118, 1072, 1153], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 6 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY"}, {"bbox": [141, 1190, 1135, 1246], "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": [141, 1257, 1135, 1443], "category": "Text", "text": "In line with the 2022 “Communicating and Raising EU Visibility: Guidance for External Actions”, it will remain a contractual obligation for all entities implementing EU-funded external actions to inform the relevant audiences of the Union’s support for their work by displaying the EU emblem and a short funding statement as appropriate on all communication materials related to the actions concerned. This obligation will continue to apply equally, regardless of whether the actions concerned are implemented by the Commission, partner countries, service providers, grant beneficiaries or entrusted or delegated entities such as UN agencies, international financial institutions and agencies of EU member states."}, {"bbox": [141, 1454, 1135, 1586], "category": "Text", "text": "However, action documents for specific sector programmes are in principle no longer required to include a provision for communication and visibility 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": [1027, 1681, 1142, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 31 of 31"}]