This report is an independent evaluation of the European Union's humanitarian interventions in India and Nepal during the period 2013-2017, as managed by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). The evaluation draws upon evidence...

This independent study examines approaches to assess the cost-effectiveness of ECHO's humanitarian aid operations. It comes at a pertinent time internationally with the World Humanitarian Summit Grand Bargain calling for humanitarian actors to work together efficiently, transparently and...

This document is the final report of the ex post evaluation of programmes aiming at promoting European Territorial Cooperation (ETC), widely known as Interreg, during the period 2007-2013. This evaluation was commissioned by the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, and is part of a...

The case study carried out as a component of the ex post evaluation of the ETC under cohesion policy programmes 2007-2013, aims to address two main questions: 1) has the Interreg IV C programme developed the capacity and structures to make knowledge and concepts gained in their projects...

The Interreg IVA programme North covers a large area with 1.5 million people, including the northernmost regions of Finland, Sweden and Norway. These share common challenges as well as opportunities related to their peripheral and sparsely populated character combined with specific geographical...

This case study report provides an assessment of the Baltic Sea Region programme 2007-2013, its main achievements, and contribution to territorial development and to the implementation of the European Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. The programme area involves eight EU member states...

This case study report provides an assessment of the Atlantic Area (AA) programme 2007-2013. The main achievements of the AA programme are overwhelmingly "soft" including the development of joint networks and platforms to promote maritime cooperation, the creation of coomon databases,...

This report provides an overall independent evaluation of ECHO's response to the Syrian crisis over the period of 2012-2014, covering Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey. The evaluation draws on a range of different sources of evidence including project data, interviews, field trips and a...

The focus on the maritime dimension of the Channel area provides the France (Channel) - England CBC programme with an underpinning rationale for cooperation for environmental protection and enhancement of the area's shared natural resources. The programme has delivered 55 projects focusing on...