Projects and references

The overall objective of this contract is to strengthen civil society, particularly in the governance sector, as an agent for development as part of the implementation of the National Indicative Programme of the 11th European Development Fund and of the budget lines. The specific objective is to improve the efficiency of the strategic partnership of the Delegation of the European Union with Madagascan civil society organisations, in connection with the national institutions, by offering: (i) technical support to contribute to an improved enabling environment and capacity building in these organisations on governance-related issues linked to EU programmes in Madagascar, and (ii) continued support to civil society for the gradual process of autonomy from the multi-donor Common Fund mechanism towards a national entity.

The Competitiveness Support System in Cameroon (DACC) aims to strengthen Cameroon's economy and jobs creation by improving the competitiveness of the private sector and the capacity of enterprises to integrate into regional and international value chains, and take advantage of new trade agreements such as the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
The support is demand driven and is being implemented directly by a long term TA/PMU team and by short term technical experts, mainly through institutional capacity building of Intermediary Organisations representing the private sector.

This mission aims to increase the Government of Benin’s capacity to apply the principles of gender-sensitive budgeting in the budget cycle. In this way state expenditure will contribute more effectively to reducing gender inequalities, achieving the gender indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals and greater budget transparency (measured by the Open Budget Index).

The general objective of the project was to provide Cameroon with a transparent and efficient public finance management (PFM) system that complies with international standards, respects the legal and regulatory prerogatives and attributions of institutions and administrations, as well as those of other PFM actors, and resolutely places public finances at the service of the country's development and the well-being of its citizens.
The project consisted of:
- institutional and organisational support to strengthen internal and external controls in order to improve the accountability of public institutions through more efficient and coherent oversight bodies at the level of:
• judicial oversight, by the Chamber of Auditors and the High Council of the State,
• parliamentary oversight, and
• administrative oversight;
- institutional and organisational support to strengthen tax policy and administration in order to broaden the non-oil tax base.

This project supports the P3A PMU in the strategic steering, operational implementation and monitoring of the Programme. It supports the strategic planning, identification, formulation, implementation and/or supervision of activities through the four institutional twinning instruments, TAIEX, SIGMA and ad hoc actions.
The TA activities aim for both the institutional and organisational strengthening of the PMU, the strengthening and coordination of the network of focal points within the beneficiary ministries, and the effective supervision of all the activities financed by the programme (from formulation to implementation), and lastly, the effective implementation of part of the activities through short-term (ad hoc) expert assignments.

The overall objective of the project, which included this contract, was to contribute to the capacity and competence of the government of the Solomon Islands to enhance service delivery to the country’s rural and urban populations.
The purpose of this contract was to enhance MDPAC's capacity to effectively plan, coordinate, monitor and evaluate development outcomes and the National Authorising Officer’s (NAO) functionalities and operations integrated into mainstream MDPAC.