ROM Handbook : Results Oriented Monitoring ; Guidance for ROM reviews and support to end-of-project results reporting for projects and programmes financed by the European Union within the framework of its external assistance ; Version 4.0

This ROM Handbook presents the detailed rules, modalities, specifications and quality standards governing the organisation and carrying out of the Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) system implemented as from 2015 under the responsibility of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development. It aims to assist, with external consultants, the Commission’s services and its representations (EU Delegations -EUD) in the partner countries and regions in the monitoring of and reporting on the implementation of projects and programmes financed within the framework of the EU’s external assistance. This assistance represents the follow-up of the former ROM system implemented since the beginning of the devolution in 2000. The reforms contained in the new ROM system are part of a wider set of reforms relating to its overall project and programme monitoring, reporting and evaluation systems. The reforms are designed to enhance the Commission’s accountability and management capacities with a stronger focus on results at all levels, including the EU's corporate level as a donor, through the new EU international Cooperation and Development Results Framework.