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Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
DG ECHO set up the Enhanced Response Capacity (ERC) funding mechanism in 2010. It aims to increase global impact, facilitate a joint donor approach and provide a longer-term framework for strengthening systems and overall response capacity of the humanitarian community.
In 2014, a mid-term evaluation of the 5-years (2010-2015) strategy and programme was published which provided an independent structured assessment of ERC-funded actions between 2010 and 2013. It highlighted that ERC had provided clear EU added value through the provision of strategic funding to field-test and roll out innovative or otherwise underfunded areas of work with system-wide impact.
The overall objective of this new assignment is to assess the impact of the Enhanced Response Capacity funding mechanism through reviewing projects funded between 2017 and 2020. Groupe URD is undertaking this work as part of the activities carried out by the INSPIRE + consortium.
- Based on the analysis of the all ERC-funded actions during that timeframe, provide an overview of the main good practices and lessons learnt (What worked or did not? Were the projects useful at the time and hit their results? Did the projects have longer-term impact?).
- Identify opportunities and challenges for DG ECHO to enhance the impact of ERC-funded projects.
- Make recommendations on how to increase the lasting sector-wide impact of ERC projects or, where applicable, the uptake of ERC-funded projects results by the broader humanitarian system.
- Make recommendations on how to increase the visibility and the uptake of ERC-funded projects results.
The INSPIRE+ Consortium is made up of Development Initiatives, IECAH, ODI, FAIREPROD and Groupe URD. It provides the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) with support in developing its policies via research, training, workshops and the dissemination of findings.
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