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CATEGORY: Socioeconomic development
LOCATION: Member States of the EU and official EU candidate and potential candidate countries
START/END: 2015 - 2018
CONSULTANCY BUDGET: 2,022,000
CLIENT: EU
ORIGIN OF FUNDING: DCI
PARTNERS: EPRD-Office for Economic Policy and regional Development ltd, (PL) Leader Centro per la Formazione alla Solidarieta (IT) Fundacion Cultura de Paz (ES) Fundacion CIDEAL (ES) LDK Consultants Europe S.A. (BE)
LDK’s BUDGET SHARE: 30%
STAFF PROVIDED: 4

Type of Services
The services to be provided include:
- Meetings and Workshops
A series of meetings is to be organised on the basis of an annual programme as follows:
Multi-stakeholder group meeting
Inception seminar
DEAR Fair and discussion forum
Cluster meeting BXL
Cluster meeting on-(project) site
- Communication Tools
Establishment and maintenance of a web-based forum, including information regarding the DEAR programme.
Creation of a short video explaining what is DEAR, based on examples;
Production of a leaflet with information about DEAR
- Analysis and Studies
Preparation of a study on how other European donors are addressing the measurement of impact for comparable initiatives; a proposal detailing how the Commission could measure the impact of its DEAR programme and activities.
Development and implementation of a reporting framework for EU co-financed DEAR projects
- Logistics
Provision of services in connection with event logistics such as: Visas, Booking, purchasing, changing, cancellation, delivery of travel tickets, Accommodation, Payment of per-diems to participants, Preparation of badges, conference kits and documentation material, Meals, snacks and coffee and other services.
Description
The overall objective of this project is to assist the EC in the development and implementation of its activities devoted to Development Education and Awareness Raising (DEAR) mainly implemented by Civil Society Organisations(CSOs) and Local Authorities(LAs) in Europe.
The specific objectives of the project are:
Objective 1: Assistance to the EC with the technical and logistical organisation and implementation of a set of activities such as (provision of technical and logistical support to facilitate capitalisation, capacity building of EU supported DEAR projects and networking)
Objective 2: Assistance to the EC in developing and implementing an analytical and result-based framework (development and implementation of a capitalisation process of past and ongoing EU-supported DEAR projects, strengthening the networking between stakeholders, development of communication tools for EU DEAR Programme, creation of a web based DEAR platform )
The expected results of the project are as follows:
Under objective 1:
- Successful implementation of the EU DEAR capitalisation, capacity building and networking processes
- Organisation of all group meetings
Under objective 2:
- Capacity building of ongoing EU DEAR projects
- Completion of various studies and researches measuring the output, outcome and impact of DEAR supported initiatives
- Production of a short videoclip and leaflet / brochure explaining DEAR.