Final External Evaluation for the Project “Action to Support the NCCPIM&TIP to create a Safe and Secure Environment in Egypt, Phase II” (RDPP II)

Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP) II

Description

The project “Action to Support the National Coordinating Committee on Combating and Preventing Trafficking in person to create a Safe and Secure Environment in Egypt, Phase II” to be evaluated is implemented under the Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP).

The RDPP is an international protection initiative according to the Team Europe Approach to Migration to enhance the capacity of non-European departure and transit countries. The aim of this initiative is to improve the durability of refugee protection with a focus on return, integration, and resettlement.

The RDPP Phase II Project was designed over a period of 27 months, commencing from January 2021 to May 2023. The action work package was designed to address the need for prevention of Trafficking in Persons (TiP), prosecution of traffickers, protections of victims, establishment for meaningful partnerships, and awareness raising of Egyptian and migrant communities on TiP. The Action aims to contribute to efforts of the Government of Egypt (GoE) to ensure TiP in Egypt is monitored, curbed, and that victims of trafficking (VoT) are promptly identified and assisted. The work package of the intervention has the specific objective to increase the skills of NCCPIM&TiP, other relevant GoE entities, and national actors in preventing and combating TiP in Egypt.

Though the intention was to enhance the capacity to review, amend, and devise a revised Counter Trafficking (CT) National Strategy for the years beyond 2021, the Government of Egypt (GoE) decided to rely on internal resources for the strategy revision. This shifted the output of the action towards:

  • strategic exchange of best practices in CT
  • capacity building of the GoE for the implementation of the CT strategy, and
  • to enhance NCCPIM&TiP outreach on raising awareness on TiP to Egyptian and migrant communities.

To this end, a study visit was paid to a Tier 1 country and a regional trilateral strategic roundtable was organized. Trainings were conducted for law enforcement officers, lawyers, prosecutors, social workers, case workers, psychologists, hotline operators, journalists, media professionals, CSOs, and migrant CBOs.

In addition, an Assessment of the First and Second Wave of the National Awareness Raising Campaign informed the Third Wave during the project period. Outreach events were organized in the governorates of Cairo and Alexandria, supported by other complementary projects, to prevent persons at risks to become VoT and to encourage the public to combat TiP by identifying and reporting cases, facilitating referrals, and assisting VoTs.

The project engaged multiple stakeholders such as European Union, UNODC, ILO, NCCPIM&TiP, the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Ministry of Interior (MoI), Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG), Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Defence (MoD), Administrative Control Authority (ACA), National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM), National Council for Women (NCW), National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), Governments of Jordan, Bahrain, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, and the Netherlands, Egyptian communities and migrant community leaders and communities, CSOs, NGOs, migrant CBOs, and journalists & media professionals.

The evaluation purpose:

  • To assess the extent to which the project’s intervention package and delivery strategies have been effective in bringing about the expected short- and long-term results and to collect needed information to inform the projects consolidation, improvement in design and standardization.

The evaluation scope covers the whole period from January 2021 until May 2023, with geographical focus on Alexandria and Cairo governorates.

Services

  • Assess the overall achievements and delivery of the project in line with its intended objectives and targets, with indications of how the project was relevant, efficient, effective, impactful, and sustainable.
  • Assess to which extent stakeholders have been effectively engaged and their capacities enhanced due to project interventions in key areas of countering, curbing, and managing trafficking in persons;
  • Analyse key results from community engagement interventions, including and especially the results of the awareness-raising component of the project. This will include identifying and interviewing community representatives and direct beneficiaries / targeted audience of the campaign; and
  • Provide recommendations on how to take the project’s main results forward, and how to ensure that the impact of the project results is maximised through governmental counterparts.
  • Conduct Desk review (project proposal, workplan, risk assessment plan, work package project document, quarterly reports, National Awareness Campaign Assessment, pre- and post-testing results (evaluation documents), surveys, mid-review report, Migration Drivers Report: Egypt as a Country of Origin (EUAA), U.S.A. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report etc.)
  • Write-up of inception report inc. development of Evaluation Matrix and data collection tools with utilization-focused, human rights-based, gender-responsive approach, participatory, and intersectional approach
  • Conduct data collection by mixed qualitive methods (5 KIIs, 3 in-depth interviews, 2 FGDs)
  • Conduct Data Analysis with OECD-DAC criteria (Comparative, Narrative & Qualitative Thematic Analysis)
  • Write-up of Evaluation Draft Report, Final Evaluation Report, Evaluation Brief
  • Conduct of debriefing session