Our team provides clients with robust monitoring systems across policy areas, including fisheries and aquaculture, communications, environment, external action and international development, health and food safety, justice and consumers, transport and mobility.
Our systems generate evidence for progress assessment, future evaluation and impact assessment, while contributing to meet EU institutions’ duties of accountability on public spending. We rely on participatory monitoring processes, which create a shared understanding among relevant actors of what interventions entail and what success will look like, which in turn supports their implementation.
Project highlights
Designing a monitoring framework for EU One Health Action Plans against antimicrobial resistance
We were contracted by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency and DG SANTE to design a cost-effective monitoring framework to track progress of the implementation of the 2017 Action Plan and the 2023 Council Recommendation on combating AMR, to assess the outputs, outcomes and impacts achieved.
Our framework allows for a dynamic, systematic and regular follow-up of the progress made in combating AMR in the EU. It required an intervention logic to support the monitoring framework (based on the principles outlined in by Tool #43 of the Better Regulation Guidelines Toolbox), extensive desk research and mapping of sources and indicators, and consultation with the AMR One Health Network.
Study on DG TAXUD’s Performance Measurement Framework
Our team evaluated the Performance Measurement Framework of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD).
Through our data-driven research and analysis, we developed a proposal and innovative tools for a new monitoring framework. This helped the Directorate update intervention logics, lists and definitions for proposed indicators, suggested roles and responsibilities for stakeholders, and supported the development of tools for data collection, management and reporting.
Project Monitoring System for the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments
Since 2017 we have provided technical assistance to the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI). This work has included the set-up and delivery of the Project Implementation and Monitoring System (PIMS), with accompanying training and capacity building, as well as an online helpdesk.
When the EU’s external actions were reshaped by the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI-GE), we developed the adjusting systems and procedures, and the respective results reporting frameworks. Our study team focused on increasing the capacity of the Commission and implementing partners to implement and monitor EU-funded actions managed by the FPI; and to improve the quality of interventions.
Study supporting the monitoring of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD
Tetra Tech worked with the European Commission’s DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) to extract and analyse evidence provided by Member States in the Annual Implementation Reports (AIRs) on the implementation of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD).
The assignment supported the monitoring of FEAD by providing evidence of progress in the implementation of the Member States’ Operational Programmes and of results achieved each year. It also helped the Commission to fulfil the requirement of presenting a summary of the AIRs to the European Parliament and the Council.