The global objective of the project is to contribute to improve the quality of EU support to the Malagasy sugar sector to achieve the national objectives set by the National Support Strategy to the Sugar Sector (NSSSS), by providing to the decision-makers the necessary information and the relevant recommendations to support the process of elaboration of future support.

The specific objectives of the mission are:

1.    To take stock of the interventions funded over the period 2006-2011 and to give an overall judgement according to the usual evaluation criteria (relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, sustainability);

2.    From the knowledge acquired on the Malagasy sugar sector and the lessons learnt within the framework of the evaluation of the EU support over the period 2006-2011, to support the identification of a new project, set of relevant, realistic and coherent interventions to propose for EU funding within the framework of the 2012 allowance