Details
- Identification
- EvalRef 2014-M-1143, Evaluation contract C-351748, Evaluated references C-353833, D-24480
- Publication date
- 8 December 2014
- Author
- Directorate-General for International Partnerships
Description
The specific tasks undertaken by the evaluation are:
- review the original projects' designs and financing decisions with respect to achievements/failures to achieve expected objectives;
- assess the extent defined objectives, goals and targets have been attained;
- assess the sustainability of the achievements and if these are not sustainable, to recommend how to ensure sustainabilty;
- review constraints, lessons learnt and successes which could strengthen institutional capacity of those implementing the programme;
- gauge projects' management competencies and processes; and
- appraise if environmental and gender issues were adequately addressed during the implementation of the project.
The EU Accompanying Measures for Sugar Programme (AMSP) is made of four different interventions; AMSP 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. The programme of relevance to this assignment is AMSP 2011 ("Improvement of Key Services for Agriculture Programme"). The Programme budget amounts to EUR 8,000,000.- (EU contribution) plus an in kind contribution worth approximately EUR 4,900,000.-, which shall be provided by the farmers, the Sugar Research Institute of Fiji (SRIF) and private stakeholders' own resources.
The implementation of the Programme was done through two contribution agreements with the Southern Pacific Community (SPC) and the International Trade Centre ITC), and one Grant Contract with the Sugar Research Institute of Fiji (SRIF).
Objectives of the Programme
Overall Objective: "The overall objective of the Programme is to help to cushion the economic and social impacts of the sugar sector restructuring by supporting diversified market-driven agriculture".
Programme Purpose: "Key services for agriculture are improved and supply capacities are enhanced".