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According to the Guidelines for Implementation of the Common Framework for Country Strategy Papers, “the NIP shall be periodically reviewed in accordance with the applicable Regulation/Agreement”. This process is called mid-term review (MTR) and is usually carried out half way through the period covered by the CSP. As is the case when defining the original CSP, the MTRs require active dialogue between the Commission delegations and the partner countries and regions.
The Guidelines add that MTRs, “should be a stock-taking exercise with the aim to critically examine recent operations, to agree any necessary changes of timing or priorities and to chart the course for coming activities within the focal sectors”.
In particular, MTRs should:
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Keep the strategy up-to-date with developments in the country brought about by internal, regional or external events, including the poverty reduction strategy process where it exists;
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Take into account and operationalise, as far as possible, new EC/EU policy initiatives and commitments that have an impact on third countries or, more generally, at international level, while fully respecting the principles of ownership and concentration of aid, the objectives and priorities of the EC Development Policy and the specificities of the relationship between each partner country and the EU;
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Assess the results and performance and draw lessons;
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Lead to a constant improvement of the quality of strategy documents, in particular to correct some weaknesses which had not been adequately taken into account in the “first generation” of CSPs.
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