The EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program monitors compliance with the European Union's political criteria for accession in the candidate states of Central and Eastern Europe. The primary objective of the Program is to promote public awareness and debate regarding the role, content, and significance of these criteria during the ongoing EU accession process.

The Program works with national experts and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to compile reports examining candidate states' efforts to meet the criteria with respect to minority protection, judicial independence, equal opportunities for women and men, and corruption. The reports provide the European Commission with an additional source of information for the preparation of its Regular Reports on candidate states' progress towards accession. The reports are also distributed widely in the candidate countries and internationally to encourage broader participation in the process of articulating the Union's common democratic values, as well as in ongoing monitoring of compliance with human rights standards throughout the Union.

The EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program maintains its own separate website at www.eumap.org.