The assignment was aimed at carrying out a comprehensive review of the Financing Agreement "The EU-South Africa Dialogue Facilit" between the European Union and South Africa and financed under the Development Cooperation Instrument. This review entailed a cross-comparative overview of other instruments financed by the European Union, promoting policy dialogue, peer-to-peer exchanges and twinning mostly in middle and upper income countries, with the objective to distil lessons learnt and best practice to guide the current and any future Dialogue Facility-related programmes in South Africa.