Evaluation of EU Support to Youth in the Enlargement and Neighbourhood Regions

The evaluation served a dual purpose of accountability and learning. The main objectives were to provide an independent and evidence-based assessment of the EU’s past and current external action support to youth and, based on this assessment, provide lessons learnt and recommendations for decision-makers at EU level. The specific objectives of the evaluation were to assess in qualitative and quantitative terms the relevance, implementation conditions and performance of EU external action support to youth, particularly its efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, sustainability, and impact; to assess the EU’s cooperation potential and added value; and to identify lessons learnt, best practices, and recommendations regarding explanatory factors that hamper the contributions of EU support to youth, policy development, policy dialogue, and related coherence, as well as operational aspects in the field of youth.