PEM completed an assignment to support the EU Delegation (EUD) in Lesotho, focusing on implementing actions aligned with the Multi-annual Indicative Programme (MIO) for Lesotho 2021-2027. This project, conducted within the EU’s Global Technical Assistance Facility for the Water Sector, involved evaluating past, ongoing, and planned interventions in the rural WASH and governance sector, including those by EU support and other partners. The assessment considered expected results and potential for future phases. Additionally, the assignment involved evaluating Human Capacity Development activities in the water sector and identifying detailed, budgeted actions for potential implementation. The project’s findings also led to recommendations for action in the sector. 

The Committee of Ministers (CM) of the Council of Europe (CoE) adopted the Action Plan for Georgia 2020-2023 in the end of 2019. It is meant to support the country’s effort to honour its obligations as a member state of the CoE and is in line with European standards of human rights, rule of law and democracy. The objectives of the Action Plan include protecting and promoting human rights and dignity, ensuring social rights, ensuring justice, strengthening and countering threats to the rule of law, strengthening democratic governance, and promoting participation and diversity. The objective of the evaluation is to draw lessons from implementation and to provide the stakeholders of the CoE Action Plan with an objective assessment of the achieved results. These results will influence the preparation of the future CoE Action Plans in Georgia but also other countries. Hence, the overall aim is to enhance their relevance and

DEEP is based on government-to-government cooperation involving the Danish Energy Agency and the Danish Energinet, with the purpose of strengthening Ethiopia’s Nationally Determined Contribution NDC in accordance with the Paris Agreement and to support broad-based economic growth through strengthening of the energy sector’s performance. DEEP comprises 3 projects: i) energy planning and modelling; ii) wind power development; iii) system integration of variable renewable energy. After the Programme Documents were updated in early 2023, DEEP was finally approved by the Danish Minister for development cooperation and global climate policy on 10 February 2023 and an Inception Phase was launched. The purpose of the Inception Review was to support the Embassy of Denmark in the management of the support provided and to secure the best possible start of DEEP.

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) established the Geneva Technical Hub (GTH) in April 2021. The GTH aims to enhance UNHCR’s response in areas such as Preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Energy & Environment, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Shelter & Settlement, Site planning, and Protection. The SDC’s support to the GTH aims to achieve specific outcomes as defined in the project log frame for greening humanitarian aid. The outcomes are to establish and operationalize the GTH, develop technical tools and guidance followed by UNHCR’s field operations, enhance the technical capacity of UNHCR staff in the field through GTH’s assistance, and proposing and implementing innovative and context-specific technical solutions to complex challenges in Energy & Environment, Preparedness and DRR, WASH, Shelter & Settlement, site planning, and protection in UNHCR’s field operations. The evaluation tools included a document review, semi-structured