Thematic Evaluation of European Commission Support to Justice and Security System Reform Final Report Volume I – Main Report November 2011 Evaluation for the European Commission Framework contract for Multi-country thematic and regional/country-level strategy European Group for evaluation studies and synthesis in the area of external co- Evaluation EEIG Germany operation LOT 2: Multi-country evaluation studies on social/human development issues of EC external co-operation PARTICIP GmbH Germany Ref.: EuropeAid/122888/C/SER/Multi Request for Service: 2010/234349 Aide à la Décision Economique Belgium Thhematic Evaluation of European Commission Support to Justice and Security Italy System Reform Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Germany European Centre for Development Policy Management Final Report Belgium Volume I – Main Report Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom South Research November 2011 Belgium A consortium of EGEVAL II (Particip & ADE) –DRN-DIE– ECDPM-ODI c/o Particip GmbH, leading Thhis evaluation was carried out by company: Headquarters Merzhauser Str. 183 D - 79100 Freiburg / Germany Phone: +49-761-79074-0 Fax: +49-761-79074-90
[email protected] The evaluation has been managed by the Joint Evaluation Unit in DG DEVCO. The author accepts sole responsibility for this report, drawn up on behalf of the Commission of the European Union. The report does not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission. Thematic Evaluation of the European Commission Support to Justice and Security System Reform ADE - EGEVAL II Table of Contents LIST OF ACRONYMS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 1 1.1 OVERALL OBJECTIVE, MANDATE AND SCOPE OF THE EVALUATION .......................... 1 1.2 KEY PHASES OF THE EVALUATION .................................................................................