[{"bbox": [140, 153, 1134, 286], "category": "Text", "text": "government, including Cabinet Division. Moreover, Cabinet Division, with the support of UNDP has developed a M&E dashboard, an online platform where the LMs are demanded to provide updates on their targets, in line with their respective plans as embedded in the NSSS Action Plan 2. Cabinet Division will also monitor the performance of the overall social protection system through regular assessments, using the M&E framework and the Core Diagnostic Instrument tool."}, {"bbox": [140, 286, 1134, 366], "category": "Text", "text": "The Programme Implementation Committee (PIC) will convene meetings at least once per year to review the progress of the action. The minutes of meetings will be duly signed and communicated to the chair of the PSC and the EU Delegation."}, {"bbox": [140, 366, 1134, 419], "category": "Text", "text": "The Programme Steering Committee (PSC) will convene meetings at least once a year (ad-hoc meetings may be convened when necessary) and minutes of the meetings will be issued."}, {"bbox": [140, 419, 1134, 578], "category": "Text", "text": "The budget support programme will be reviewed through annual, time-bound reviews to assess compliance with the General Conditions and Performance Indicators for the release of the instalments. The reviews will be timed to meet the indicative disbursement schedule. An independent review team (third party contracted by the EU Delegation) may support the process for each instalment. Moreover, technical assistance will be used to assess at regular intervals the impact of the intervention on inequality reduction, selecting as target groups individuals receiving benefits from MCBP and the working age social protection programmes."}, {"bbox": [140, 578, 1134, 817], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the Team Europe Initiative on Decent Work (TEI DW), social protection is a key component within the \"Enabling environment for jobs and labour rights\" pillar. Alongside the EUD social protection budget support programme, the Netherlands and Germany have also funded interventions in social protection under the TEI umbrella, primarily linked to the Employment Injury Insurance scheme. Coordination among TEI programmes occurs through monthly meetings for social protection development partners and bi-monthly TEI DW working group meetings to optimize synergies and prevent overlap. Additionally, the EUD, supported by an M&E expert via the \"Support for European Development Policy and Team Europe\" facility, is in the process of revising the TEI joint intervention logic and establishing a coherent result monitoring and reporting system for the totality of TEI programming."}, {"bbox": [140, 817, 1134, 949], "category": "Text", "text": "For complementary support: reports shall be laid out in such a way as to allow monitoring of the means envisaged. The final report, narrative and financial, will cover the entire period of the action implementation. The statistical and monitoring systems as well as the quality of official data in the policy field covered have been assessed. This assessment has fed into the design of the action as follows: M&E capacities to monitor and report on sector performance will be strengthened."}, {"bbox": [130, 963, 308, 991], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [152, 1010, 1124, 1169], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the nature of the action, an ex-post evaluation will be carried out for this action or its components via independent consultants contracted by the Commission. It will be carried out for accountability and learning purposes at various levels (including for policy revision), taking into account in particular the EU's engagement at strategic level in the sector with the Government and the promotion of a system-oriented approach, as called for in the 2012 Communication on Social Protection in EU Development Cooperation."}, {"bbox": [152, 1169, 1124, 1354], "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": [152, 1354, 1124, 1432], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation of this action may be performed individually or through a joint strategic evaluation of budget support operations carried out with the partner country, other budget support providers and relevant stakeholders."}, {"bbox": [152, 1432, 1124, 1540], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission shall inform the implementing partner(s) at least three months in advance of the dates foreseen for the evaluation mission. The implementing partner(s) 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": [152, 1540, 1124, 1593], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation team should include expertise on HRBA, gender-responsiveness and disability inclusion in the area of social protection and social inclusion."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 31 of 32"}]