Evaluation of EU regional-level support to Central Asia (2007 - 2014 ) : Final Report ; Volume 1

The evaluation covered EU regional-level support to Central Asia (CA) in the period 2007-2014. Based on the Terms of Reference, the following were assessed: Relevance and coherence of EU’s co-operation strategy and programmes; Impact, sustainability, effectiveness and efficiency of EU support; Consistency between programming and implementation; Value added of EU’s interventions. The evaluation covered four local sectors, namely environment, border management, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) development, and higher education. In addition, the evaluation considered the co-ordination and complementarity of the EU’s regional-level interventions with EU’s bilateral interventions in the five CA countries as well as other donors’ regional-level interventions, and the coherence between the EU’s interventions and overarching EU policies.