The purpose
of the evaluation was to assess the EU support to Juvenile Justice in Kosovo
using the five standard DAC evaluation criteria, namely: relevance,
effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact. In addition, the
evaluation assessed two EU specific evaluation criteria:
· The EU added value (the extent to
which the EU support to Juvenile Justice- adds benefits to what would have
resulted from Member States' interventions only);
· The coherence of the Action itself, with the EU strategy in rule of law and child protection sector in Kosovo and with other EU policies and Member State Actions.
According to the terms of reference the following activities were implemented:
· Review and analysis of project
documents, and of documents related to the applicable legal framework;
· Identification of the methodological
framework and of the final version of the EQs;
· Implementation of kick-off meeting
and key interviews in Prishtina;
· Implementation of meetings with the
most relevant public authorities and CSOs, in order to assess the potential
structure of the field phase;
· Drafting of Inception Note;
· Analysis of available documentation,
which formulation of preliminary hypotheses and answers for each EQ (with
indicators and sources of verification);
· Implementation of interviews aimed
at clarifying the content of the documentation and at obtaining further data
where needed;
· Definition of the field phase, with
list of locations, persons and authorities to be met for the validation of the
preliminary hypotheses;
· Implementation of meetings and
interviews with all relevant actors identified during the inception and desk
phases;
· Analysis and cross-checking or
primary evidence;
· Formulation of preliminary findings;
· Finalisation of the final report.