[{"bbox": [120, 153, 1107, 204], "category": "Text", "text": "quantitative but mostly qualitative reporting to inform the steering committees at national and departmental level."}, {"bbox": [120, 219, 1110, 430], "category": "Text", "text": "Indicators shall be disaggregated at least by income. All monitoring and reporting shall assess how the action is considering inequality reduction. The Distributional Impact Assessment tool (DIA) will 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 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 inter sectionalities (e.g. bottom 40 income who are women, children etc.)."}, {"bbox": [120, 443, 1110, 547], "category": "Text", "text": "All monitoring and reporting shall assess how the action is considering the principle of gender equality, human rights-based approach, and rights of persons with disabilities including inclusion and diversity. Indicators shall be disaggregated at least by sex whenever possible and meaningful and age and disability where feasible."}, {"bbox": [110, 576, 288, 604], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [120, 623, 1108, 677], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the nature of the action, a midterm and/ or final evaluation will be carried out for this action or its components."}, {"bbox": [120, 688, 1110, 874], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation plan (or component in the foreseen evaluation) should assess the distributional impact of activities undertaken on the socio-economically disadvantaged individuals, households, or groups. This can be done through the Distributional Impact Assessment tool (DIA). The DIA analysis looks at the effective targeting of beneficiaries of development interventions, identifying if more than 40 per cent of beneficiaries are at the bottom two quintiles of the income or wealth distribution. It also allows to evaluate whether effective targeting has been done towards women, children and youth or other disadvantaged groups (e.g. ethnic minorities) or at territorial level. Expertise on inequality reduction will be ensured in the evaluation teams."}, {"bbox": [120, 886, 1108, 940], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission will, during implementation, decide to undertake such evaluations for duly justified reasons either on its own decision or on the initiative of the partner."}, {"bbox": [120, 951, 1108, 1033], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation reports may be shared with the partners and other key stakeholders following the best practice of evaluation dissemination²². The implementing partner and the Commission shall analyse the conclusions and recommendations of the evaluations and, where appropriate, apply the necessary adjustments."}, {"bbox": [120, 1044, 1110, 1124], "category": "Text", "text": "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": [110, 1151, 426, 1180], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.3 Audit and Verifications"}, {"bbox": [120, 1197, 1107, 1279], "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": [110, 1317, 1044, 1351], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 6 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY"}, {"bbox": [120, 1383, 1108, 1437], "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": [120, 1448, 1110, 1556], "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"}, {"bbox": [110, 1589, 516, 1616], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²² See best practice of evaluation dissemination"}, {"bbox": [991, 1654, 1122, 1682], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 33 of 35"}]