This is the Final Report for the forward-looking evaluation on the future pre-accession financial instrument beyond 2013, commissioned by Directorate-General for Enlargement (DG ELARG) of the European Commission (EC). The work was carried out between December 2010 and May 2011 by the European...

The focus of the evaluation is on the comparison of the delivery instruments twinning (standard and light) and technical assistance under IPA 2007-2008, Phare 2005-2006, CARDS 2005-2006 and the Turkey pre-accession assistance instrument 2005-2006 in the candidate and potential candidates.

ECORYS has been contracted through the framework contract on Evaluation and Evaluation-related services (BUDG N°06/PO/01/Lot N°3) of DG Budget of the European Commission to prepare a thematic evaluation on the assistance provided by the EC to Turkey through the Twinning instrument. The object...