September, 2024 – May, 2025, BGI Consulting carried out the ex-post evaluation of the Implementation of the 2014-2021 European Economic Area (EEA) and Norway Grants’ Programmes. The evaluation was commissioned by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania.
The main aim of the evaluation was to assess the effectiveness and impact of the investments made under the 2014-2021 European Economic Area (EEA) and Norway Grants’ programmes, in order to properly account for the use of their investments, to improve the use of the investments in the programme areas in the future and to inform the institutions concerned, as well as the public.
To achieve this aim, five tasks of the evaluation were set: (1) to assess the effectiveness of the programmes’ investments; (2) to assess the impact of the programmes’ investments; (3) to assess the sustainability of the programmes’ investments; (4) to provide findings and recommendations for better use of the investments in the programme areas in the future; (5) to carry out a case study of the project “Improving Work Quality and Enhancing Competences of the Justice Chain to Protect Victims of Domestic and Gender-Based Violence” (No. LT06-3-VRM-TF-001), implemented under the programme “Justice and Home Affairs” (LT06), with particular emphasis on the use of body cameras for evidence collection.
The scope of the evaluation - 6 programmes (Health (LT03), Culture (LT04), Environment, Energy, Climate Change (LT05), Justice and Home Affairs (LT06), Business Development, Innovation and SMEs (LT07) and the Baltic Research Programme (LT08)).
The evaluation results for now are not publicly available.