The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) has launched an independent external evaluation of the project ‘Building a Comprehensive Criminal Justice Response to Hate Crime’; ODIHR has contracted Mr Roland Blomeyer, as external evaluator, to conduct this evaluation; The evaluation will be conducted between April 2018 and January 2019, and involve a mid-term assessment towards the end of May 2018 and a final report in January 2019; the evaluation will involve desk research, interviews with stakeholders and country visits to Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Poland; the evaluation will be based on the five Development Assistance Criteria (DAC) as laid out in the DAC Principles for evaluation of Development Assistance (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability) and two additional ODIHR criteria of added value and coherence.