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European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights
The flexible set-up under the contract provided the European Commission with expert teams to carry out, whenever needed, thematic evaluations of projects and programmes funded in the context of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR). Evaluated projects covered themes such as the work of torture rehabilitation centres, human rights masters programmes, anti-racism programmes and a multi-annual, multi-country Andean human rights programme. The main focus of the eight evaluations was on the direct impact on participants in and beneficiaries of the project activities, but the evaluations also sought to establish the wider impact of the EIDHR-funded projects or programmes on the situation which originally gave rise to the problems addressed by the project.
The European Commission funded and still funds projects and programmes worldwide under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR). The European Commission assigned a consortium of Human European Consultancy, the Netherlands Humanist Committee on Human Rights (HOM) and the Danish Institute for Human Rights to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and wider impact of a series of projects and programmes funded under EIDHR.
The consortium carried out nine evaluations during the three years of the contract. The projects and programmes to be evaluated were selected by the Human Rights Unit of EuropeAid, which also drafted the terms of reference for each assignment in consultation with key experts from the consortium partners.
The topics for the evaluations were diverse and ranged from thematic to institutional evaluations and combinations thereof, covering topics such as the funding of the Moscow School of Political Science or the torture rehabilitation centres established in various EU Member States.
For each evaluation teams of two to three experts were established who carried out desk studies and subsequently conducted a mission to visit the EIDHR project-implementing partner, identifying and reporting on best practices and lessons that could be learned from the project. The teams of experts were guided and monitored by one of the key experts of the consortium partners
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