Evaluation Partners 

EU Home Affairs, Justice and Fundamental Rights

• Evaluation of the Operational Office of Frontex in Greece – Frontex (Agency for the management of the European Union’s external borders, Warsaw) (2011) - see related publication on the CERI - Sciences Po website: http://ceriscope.sciences-po.fr/node/197

• Evaluation of the Network of maritime related law-enforcement authorities (Aquapol), of the European network of railway police forces (Railpol) and the European traffic police network (Tispol) – European Commission, DG Home Affairs (2012)

• Impact assessment study on the free movement of public documents in the EU–  European Commission, DG Justice (2012)

• Impact Assessment of the policy options to legislate on consumer “class action” in the EU (in order to empower consumers to obtain collective redress for mass claims) – European Commission, DG Health and Consumers (a policy area today part of DG Justice) (2008-9)

• Managed a framework contract for evaluation and monitoring services of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)

• Managed a framework contract for impact assessment and evaluation services in the area of Home affairs – European Commission, DG Home Affairs

• Managed a framework contract for assessment and evaluation services in the area of justice – European Commission, DG Justice

EU Structural Funds, Financial Aid Programmes and Economic Policy

• Mid-term Evaluation of the EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund (ITF) –European Investment Bank (2011-12)

• Ex-ante evaluation of the future (2014-2020) Financial Instrument for Fisheries restructuring – European Commission, DG Fisheries (2011)

• Ex-post assessment of the Regional programme of innovative actions (RPIA) (2006-07) in the Auvergne region (France) – European Commission, DG REGIO (2010)

• Evaluation of the EU Guarantee Fund for External Actions – European Commission, DG ECFIN (2010)

• Meta-evaluation of the EU macro-financial assistance (MFA) (balance-of-payments and budget support) to accession and near-neighbourhood countries: evaluation of the impact on macroeconomic stabilisation and structural reforms – European Commission, DG ECFIN (2009)

• Interim Evaluation of the EU Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) (2007-2013) – European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry (2009)

• Interim evaluation of the financial instruments supported under the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP) of the European Investment Fund – European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry (2008)

Environment, Disaster Response and International Development

• Study on the resources sharing & pooling models for wildfires fighting aerial assets in the EU – European Commission, DG ECHO (Civil Protection department – formerly part of DG Environment)  (2010)

• Cost-benefit analysis of various options related to the development of the EU Disaster Response Capacity  – for DG ECHO (2010)

• UN Climate Architecture study: study on the roles and efficiency of UN agencies (vs. multilateral development banks and bilateral donors) in supporting climate change initiatives in developing countries – DfID – UK Department for International Development (2009)

• Study on the relationship between climate change, economy and jobs in Bangladesh (assessment of the ‘green jobs’ potential in this country) – UN/ ILO (International Labour Organisation, in Geneva) (2009)

• Assessment of the economic and social impacts and benefits associated with the ‘Natura 2000’ Network - supporting the Commission in obtaining an accurate estimate of the costs of managing this network of biodiversity protection areas, and measuring the impacts and benefits brought by the ecosystem services of the network – European Commission, DG Environment (2009)

EU Transports & Energy, Education

• Impact assessment of the extension of the SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research Programme) consortium, managing the European ATM (air traffic management) infrastructure modernisation programme – SESAR European Joint Undertaking (2012)

• Study on the potential for reorganization to improve cost-effectiveness within “Fusion For Energy- F4E” (the EU’s Joint Undertaking for ITER and the development of Fusion Energy) – European Parliament (2012-13)

• Mapping of Member States’ external cooperation instruments in the field of education and training – European Commission, DG Education and Culture (2008)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (O.E.C.D.)

• Internal evaluation of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) – the OECD DAC was created in 1961. It is a unique international forum of the world's largest funders of development aid, including 29 OECD Members. The World Bank, IMF and UNDP participate as observers. It defines and monitors global standards in key areas of development (2016)

•  Internal evaluation of the OECD Health Committee – the OECD Health Committee advises policy makers and informs public and private stakeholders on how to address demands for more and better quality health care, in a context of strains on public budgets. It also develops statistics of health system performance and helps countries benchmark their policies against the highest-performing health systems (2015)

• Strategic assessment of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE) – the OECD CFE helps countries design and implement effective policies for local economic and employment development, SMEs and entrepreneurship, and tourism. The OECD Secretary-General asked a contribution to CFE's strategic thinking, in the context of a change in its leadership, through an assessment of the role of the CFE in the global environment, and how to enhance such a role (2015)

Rail Transportation 

• Design of a new management system (by business units) and revamping of the financial reporting system for the network running the French railway stations, for the Managing Director of French national railways (SNCF) (180,000 employees), in the perspective of competition between railway operators on national networks in the EU

• Strategic financial diagnosis of the performance of French regional railways operators: assessment of the real profitability of the rail transportation business at regional level, with the aim of renegotiating the operations conventions signed between the SNCF's Regional Transportation Branch (20,000 employees) and the 22 French Regions

Marketing Strategy

• Definition of the marketing strategy of a new private electricity supplier in France

• Marketing strategy of a French bank focused on private banking for expatriates and international customers

 Financial & Market Analysis

• Feasibility review of a Moroccan state-owned bank’s restructuring package, following the default of major debtors: analysis of the commercial capability of the retail banking network to contribute to the bank recovery (in Casablanca, Morocco)

Management Accounting

• Harmonisation of the financial accounting & reporting methods of the French subsidiaries of an international leasing group, and implementation of management and budgetary accounting 

• Organisational audits of French Ministerial departments and of various companies’ finance & accounting departments