The evaluation provided Sida with an overall summative judgment as a basis for a discussion about future support to the civil society to respective countries in the Western Balkans in regards to methods, organization, cooperation partners and regulatory framework.  On a principal level the question “to what extent the Framework Organizations bring an added value as compared to other possible forms of support.” The evaluation is also expected “to test the thesis that ‘support to civil society is most fruitful when channeled through other civil society organizations’”.

In November, 2009, InDevelop-IPM was assigned by Sida to plan and facilitate a learning process of the achievements and experiences of projects on inter-ethnic education and youth work in Macedonia. The overall purpose of carrying out this learning process was two-fold. Firstly, in the process of phasing out the Swedish support to Macedonia, Sida wanted have a better understanding of the achievements and lessons learned of the supported interventions within the area of human rights and social cohesion. Secondly, and more importantly, the purpose has also been to enhance the capacity and support networking for the future among key stakeholders within the specific area of inter-ethnic education and youth work in Macedonia.

The organizations being a part of the learning process have been: Search for Common Ground (with the project Mozaïk-bilingual kindergartens), Macedonian Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution/ the Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (with The School of Tolerance project), The Centre for Non-formal Education, Triagolnik (Triangle) with various initiatives and Cultures Project Association, CCPA (with the project Open Fun Football Schools, OFFS).

NEA Advisors was to establish a framework for a women’s core group within NEA and support the preparation and agreement of an action plan. This was undertaken through the sensitisation of a group of NEA advisors, their training in specific areas associated with women’s needs and their instruction in the planning of women’s activities within the overall NEA operational plan. Additionally, number of pilot activities with women’s group were planned to take place through the women advisors in NEA. These were documented and the lessons learnt were prepared as a case study.

The National Coordinator took part in the preparatory workshop in ETF; The National Coordinator was responsible for producing national background document in a form of ‘self-study’ document on the topic “Involvement of social partners in education and training in tourism and construction”. She drafted the self-study in close cooperation with the national peer learning team. This document provided a short overview of the major developments in the country. It included a problem analysis, a stakeholder analysis and identified objectives and implementation issues. The National Coordinator together with the national peer learning team was responsible for collecting a set of country background materials that can help to clarify the issue/ topic of peer learning exercise in the host country. The National Coordinator, together with the national peer learning team, was responsible for drafting the programme and arranging the meetings in the host country Peer learning visit. The programme focused on issues related to the peer learning topic for 2008 and included visits to a wide group of relevant stakeholders. The programme was agreed with ETF. A visiting peers team must be able to build on the ‘self-study’ document. Therefore, it was expected that all members of the National team (including the National coordinator) would present during the preparatory workshop in the host country in detail the issues elaborated in the “self-study” document. The purpose was to make Peer learning team members familiar with mechanisms and policies related to “Involvement of social partners in education and training in tourism and construction”;

The objective of this expert assignment was to enhance the capacity of national stakeholders in Macedonia to address the social exclusion of disadvantaged ethnic communities through designing and implementing inclusive and ethnically sensitive education and training measures and actions.

Background report prepared on “Analysis into problems connected with the legal and institutional framework and related implementing mechanisms in the Republic of Macedonia, which form obstacles to labour market participation”. The objective of the background study was drawn up under this assignment was to contribute with analysis and policy recommendations to the overall study on “Barriers to labour market participation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”. The main objective of the joint World Bank-ETF study was to build policy dialogue on the phenomenon of the high inactivity rate in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to provide advice on how to address the problems of specific groups of inactive people and prioritise actions that could help people out of their inactivity

Overall goal of the project was to increase the participation of the rural women in rural development and include women from rural communities in the decision making process. Project aimed to establish a baseline against which to design future activities, and prepare an action plan for NEA women’s group: activities to promote the gender concept within NEA and activities to promote the gender concept with rural women.

The assignment aims to increase intelligence with a view to informing local policies in the fields of:
(i)    education policy taking account of both the EU policy & priorities (incl. EU 2010 policy objectives and targets, Copenhagen and Bologna processes) and the education-related aspects of the EU Integrated Guidelines for Growth & Jobs;
(ii)    Social partners’ contributions to employment policies and IPA HRD programming & implementation.

Analyse the Agricultural Knowledge and Information System in 5 Pilot municipalities focusing on the following aspects: