Guidelines for the monitoring system for development-related changes (MERV)

The update of MERV guidelines aims at (i) strengthening the context monitoring of Cooperation Strategies (CS) and (ii) addressing more consistently issues of fragility within the obligatory monitoring of development related context changes. The relationship between MERV and contextual analysis, including scenarios, risk and security management as well as the links with cooperation strategies, result frameworks, monitoring system and annual reports will be strengthened. Main changes concern - the categorization into three types of countries, - the introduction of “humanitarian and development space” as additional but mandatory field of observation in high risk and fragile and conflict affected contexts, - and the merger of social, cultural and humanitarian conditions, and - the introduction of the category of “performance level” for fields of observation