The objective of this Report is to review the relevance and effectiveness of the Twinning Instrument relative to its fundamental objectives, with regard to different Accession Partnership areas, types of Institution Building activities and countries, with a view to high-lighting best practice...

This Thematic Report on Candidate Country Participation in the Community Programmes was prepared by the EMS Consortium1 at the request of the Evaluation Unit (E3) of DG Enlargement. Phare support to the Community Programmes has not been the subject of specific Interim Evaluations of the Phare...

The aim of the review is to summarise the achievements of Phare Roma programmes in the five countries where integration of Roma minorities was specified as an Accession Partnership priority (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia) and to consider to what extent they have...

The objective of this review is to assess the performance of Phare support in assisting the candidate countries to achieve the objectives of the pre-accession strategy. It covers the support allocated in the years 1999-2002 and implemented up to November 2003. The report makes recommendations...

Phare support to SME development has mainly consisted of technical assistance and advisory services to national institutions, support to SME policy and legislative development and financial support for SME development. Progress has been made in tackling problems inherited from the past, as well...

The Thematic Report on Phare Cross-Border Cooperation has two overall objectives: a) to consider the extent to which Phare CBC has contributed to the development of capacity in the new Member States to engage effectively in INTERREG on accession and; b) to identify lessons learned that can inform...

This report is a review of the Grant Scheme Instrument used under the Phare Programme. It identifies key trends, conclusions and lessons learned to date. It also serves as an ex-ante evaluation to feed into the programming and design of Grant Schemes in remaining and future Candidate Countries....

The first, comprehensive report, "EXPLAINING ENLARGEMENT" was published in March 2002, and outlines the progress made since the launch of the strategy in May 2000.