Projects and references

The main objective of the programme was to improve the health care delivery system especially preventing and managing the prioritised chronic non communicable diseases. The evaluation used the five standard DAC evaluation criteria (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact), the two EU specific evaluation criteria: EU added value and coherence with the EU strategy in SVG and with other policies and Member State Actions, evaluation of mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues (gender and environment) and of the implementation of a right based approach.

Final evaluation of the project 'Diritu a saude' (right to health) which aimed to promote the right to access to health services, especially in the Bissau Autonomous Area. The evaluation allowed the EU Delegation to get a clear vision of: (1) the five DAC evaluation criteria of the OECD (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact); (2) the two EU criteria: EU added value and coherence of the action with the EU strategy in Guinea Bissau in the health sector and with other EU policies, and interaction with other actions of Member States and other donors, in this project especially the World Bank, and (3) the three transversal criteria: gender approach, interrelation with SDGs (sustainable development goals) and the rights-based approach.

Phase 1 – Identification: review of the current situation in terms of progress in the implementation of the different strategies and action plans related to the fields concerned (social protection, the fight against exclusion, access to health, grant programme for basic commodities, social security fund reforms, health insurance fund reform, etc.), review of the actors (Tunisian stakeholders and technical and financial partners) and of past or ongoing interventions. Proposal of intervention assumptions to support the Tunisian government in its reforms of the poverty reduction and social transfer system. Drafting of the action document.
Phase 2 - Detailed formulation of the support programme, demonstrating its relevance and coherence with the objectives and policy instruments of the EU and of the country, its feasibility, complementarity with the actions of the other funding agencies, and with already ongoing or planned EU projects. Drafting of all documents needed to implement the action.

A consulting team of three experts (budget support/public finance management, macroeconomics ad Social Protection) was mobilised to carry out a comprehensive review of the third disbursement tranche of the Sector Reform Contract/Sector Budget Support Programme, as Phase I of the contract. This work was carried out in September 2019. Phase II relates to the final evaluation of three different programmes on social protection carried out in the past decade in Kyrgyzstan. The final evaluation of the three programmes was carried out between October 2019 and April 2020.

The overall objective of this assignment was to contribute to bridging the European Union’s “Digital4Development” (D4D) strategy and Gender Action Plan (GAP II) to accelerate women’s empowerment in EU digital-related programmes.
The specific objective was to deliver recommendations on the implementation of the European Commission’s D4D approach, which enables and boosts women’s empowerment in digital technologies and services in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The main objective of this project is to increase income for all stakeholders in the Cambodian rubber commodity chain. It aims: (1) to reorganize the commodity chain to achieve better commercial equity between the different stakeholders; (2) to secure additional currency earnings for the country in order to rectify an estimated loss of 8 million dollars per year due to discounting of Cambodian natural rubber on the international market; (3) to ensure higher employment in the sector on both smallholdings and estates.

The technical assistance team (TAT) supported the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) to implement the NUHM. The activities focused on facilitating state-level implementation of the NUHM. The TAT worked in 5 selected states: Telangana, Karnataka, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Assam.
The project targeted the urban poor population and directed its efforts towards 3 major intervention areas: (1) strengthening the UPHC delivery system, (2) increasing the quality of services and (3) improving the capacity of health personnel, knowledge sharing mechanisms and the promotion of innovative urban health models.

AFD was approached by the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) to finance the relocation and expansion of Ibn Sina College for Health Science (ISC), specialised in nursing and midwifery education. AFD considered new funding to ISC to be granted in 2020, where it could finance the construction and equipment of the new building, technical assistance to develop new curricula, an e-learning programme for ISC’s students and other students or allied health personal working in the Gaza Strip, and the establishment of partnerships with other nursing schools in the region or elsewhere.
A series of studies (fixed phase) was carried out to gain the AFD’s technical and financial approval of the planned project (optional tranche) before presenting the project to its board for a loan grant. Conseil Santé, SOFRECO and their Palestinian partners (UG and JUZOOR) were in charge of the feasibility study of this project in view of the validation of the financing by the AFD board of directors.