The European Centre for Democracy Support (ECES) along with four (4) partners, Club de Madrid (CdM), European Partnership for democracy (EPD) and the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) implemented a Project entitled “Supporting Democracy in Libya – SUDEL” aimed at supporting reconciliation processes and building democracy in the context of the local electoral cycles of 2012 in Libya. To that end, the project aimed at achieving a) the strengthening of Libyan stakeholders’ involvement in building democracy in Libya; b) the provision of operational and technical support to electoral cycles and c) the promotion of dialogue among political stakeholders and the engagement of citizens. 

ECES contracted Canadian Leaders in International Consulting Inc. (Clic-Consultants) to conduct a final evaluation of the project implemented between May 15, 2012 and June 30, 2013 in Libya. The main scope of the evaluation: a) make an overall independent assessment about the past performance of the project with a particular focus on the results and the impact of the project action against its objective, b) identify key lessons and propose practical recommendations for the implementation and follow-up of the project if additional funds become available and c) determine whether the project was implemented in an efficient and effective way. 

This evaluation provided an independent overall assessment of the project performance, with a particular focus on project results and impact against project objectives and was carried out through a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the project activities. The evaluation also provided a set of recommendations and lessons learned for future programming as well as identified technical and managerial problems encountered during the project implementation and proposed possible measures to overcome them.  

The SUDEL project was the first project to provide technical and operational support to the organisation of free elections in Libya. It resulted in the successful organisation of fair elections, according to international standards and the increase of capacity of Libyan stakeholders in election observation, polling, elections techniques as well as resulted in the creation of an Libyan owned organisation, National Democracy and Election Organisation (NDEO) which became an implementing partner organisation in the SUDEL project and an important local actor in knowledge dissemination and capacity development on electoral matters in Libya.