IMPLEMENTATION REPORT

The Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED) was commissioned by the European Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF) to conduct the evaluation of selected EUTF supported projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The evaluation focused on activities under EUTF Strategic Objective (SO) 1 on improving the economic and employment opportunities in the Sahel and Lake Chad (SLC) and Horn of Africa (HoA) windows. The contract began in 01.01.2021 and will end on 31.03.2025.
The purpose of this report is to provide an overview on the activities undertaken throughout the contract and especially in 2024, the fourth and last year of the contract.

The report summarises the four result areas of the contract: 
Result Area 1 (R1): Counterfactual Impact Evaluations (CIEs) on shortlisted projects for micro-project level research 
Result Area 2 (R2): Portfolio Evaluation across the SLC and HoA regions for macro level research 
Result Area 3 (R3): Activities undertaken for communication and visibility aimed at improving awareness of EUTF-funded impact evaluations 
Result Area 4 (R4): Activities undertaken toward capacity building and increasing the availability of quality, easy to process and compliant data on developing countries