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vehicles or aid modalities was geared towards the specificity of challenges, the expected efficiency and the potential synergies with other vehicles or modalities

I-3.2.1

Justification of the choice of instruments in strategy and programming documents at country/regional level

I-3.2.2

Justification of the choice provided by Commission representatives

Findings at JC level - Tunisia Evaluation

No information on the design stage of the GBSs with PSD components. For information on their implementation, see JC 3.4.

Findings at JC level – Moldova Evaluation No information. Findings at JC level – El Salvador Evaluation

FOMYPE was a programme and as such followed the project-level approach. The evaluation doesn’t give any information on the choice of the instrument/aid modality. It reiterates the aims of the programme which were: strengthening MSE’s productivity and competitiveness in El Salvador through a three-tier intervention: a) policy and legal framework development (macro level); b) capacity building of the main public and private providers of technical and financial Business Development Services (BDS) (meso level); and c) provision of better, diversified and geographically more accessible BDS to the Salvadorian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) (micro level). (p.37).

The evaluation adds that budget support was not adequate to support MSEs considering the absence of a sectoral strategy: “Budget support was not an option for the interventions funded before the PAPES, given the absence of a GoES poverty reduction strategy before 2005 (see I-5.1.3 in Annexe 9) and additionally of an eligible sector strategy (not existing in the field of MSEs for instance).” (p. 46).

The evaluation reports that a sector budget support programme, in the field of PSD and more specifically in the field of quality and metrology was under preparation at the time of the report: PROCALIDAD: €12.1m in support of the “Programa de Fortalecimiento del Sistema Nacional de Calidad en El Salvador”, as some conditions remained unfulfilled (p.37).

Findings at JC level

Burkina Faso (1999-2008)

The Commission used a “project approach” for PSD in Burkina Faso, there is evidence that it chose this instruement because the government does not yet possess a sectoral policy. The Evaluation Report concludes and recommends in this respect:

CCL : « Les difficultés de passage d’une approche « projet » classique à une approche sectorielle, financée ou non par de l’ABS, sont également observées dans les appuis de l’UE au secteur privé et au secteur « culture ». Ces difficultés ne sont néanmoins pas insurmontables et pourraient significativement s’estomper grâce à une amélioration du dialogue sectoriel et à une meilleure

définition du rôle de l’Etat dans le cadre de ce type de transition. » p.4

REC : « Utiliser les approches « projets » pour préparer les conditions de mise en place d’un ABS et lever les contraintes sectorielles spécifiques qui retardent

l’utilisation de l’ABS (faiblesse de la gouvernance sectorielle (transports),

blocage du dialogue sectoriel (culture), absence de stratégie sectorielle appropriée (secteur privé), etc..) » p.5

Guyana

(1997-2007) The Commission used non-programmable support (SYSMIN) to fund its PSD but the rationale behind this decision is not given. “The Commission has to some extent taken into account the resources potentially available under non-programmable support (namely SYSMIN, Budget Lines and the RIP) in the design of its NIP/CSP”p.64

Findings at JC level –

Microfinance

No discussion of the instruments/modalities used by the Commission to support microfinance is presented in the programming documentation of the EU/ACP Microfinance Programme.

Findings at JC

level - BizClim The evaluation suggests that the BizClim programme design process took account of the potential for coherence with other EC activities, and took account of lessons learned from other donor experience:

« The programme design has taken stock of the evaluation of the former programme DIAGNOS, of the new framework represented by the Cotonou Agreement and the evolving world economic order as well as of other donor experiences, as gathered in the White & Chacaltana paper of 2002 and White paper of 2004 prepared in the framework of the activities of the DC.

Furthermore, the Facility has played a facilitating role vis-à-vis other private sector programmes like the Investment Facility, the EU/ACP Microfinance Programme, TradeCom and PRO€INVEST, developing synergies with them. »

Source: EC, Final Evaluation Private Sector Enabling Environmnet Facility, p45

Findings at JC level

MEDA II

Most interventions have been prepared through studies, joint seminars and workshops; budget support interventions, particularly those addressing structural reforms and reform of the public finance systems, benefited from deeper and continued analysis during the implementation process. (p32)

In PSD, a distinction must be made between BS interventions, mainly designed to support systemic macro-economic or sector reforms, and other programmes and projects generally targeted more on specific capacity-building. (p42)

However, there is often insufficient explanation of the rationale underlying the choice of instruments (BS, TA,…). (pv)

A major proportion of the resources provided in MEDAII (€1.99bn) has been dedicated to systemic economic reforms (Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco) with a view to improving the legal and regulatory environment of business and trade activities. These interventions have been carefully tuned to the specific country specifications, their priorities and their capacity to implement the reforms. Budget support has been the preferred mode of intervention but programmes to support implementation of the Association Agreements, including twinning activities, and some specific components of large TA programmes have also pursued this goal. In countries where such systemic reforms could not be considered, the effort was concentrated on specific sector reforms (social sectors, trade and private sector development, water, trade, transport) with BS and TA. (p39)

design of some systemic interventions targeted at improving the business environment. (p102)