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An Overview of EU Funding
And the opportunities for
Civil Society Organisations
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An Overview of EU Funding
• Instrument for PreAccession (IPA)
• Thematic Programmes
under other Europe Aid
instruments
• Community Programmes
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Instrument for Pre-Accession
(IPA)
Learning from and replacing
previous instruments for preAccession assistance
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IPA has 5 Components
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Transition Assistance and Institution Building (I)
Regional and Cross- Border Co-operation (II)
Regional Development (III)
Human Resources Development (IV)
Rural Development (V)
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IPA Beneficiary Countries:
Candidate Countries:
• Turkey, Croatia and Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia
Pre candidate Countries:
• Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo under
UNSCR 1244/99, Montenegro, & Serbia
NB Not all components open to every country
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The Aim of IPA
The aim of IPA assistance is to support the EU preaccession strategy, particularly in pursuit of 3 key
objectives :
1. Progress towards meeting the Copenhagen
political criteria
2. Adoption & implementation of the acquis
communautaire
3. Promotion of Civil Society Dialogue
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Specific Objectives of IPA
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The Instrument of the Pre-Accession Assistance is
a precursor for the future Social, Structural and
Cohesion Funds;
Prepare the candidate countries for Multi annual
years planning;
Implement projects consistent with Community
and national priorities;
Set up independent structures of management,
implementation, control and audit
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The Main Priorities
IPA 1 : Transition & Institution Building
• Institutions directly
• Support to promoting
concerned by reforms –
a civil society
judiciary and law
dialogue*
enforcement services
• Support to adopting
• Support to continued
acquis – agriculture &
development of civil society
food safety;justice &
organisations*
security;enironment
*some of this funding is channelled
through the Civil Society Facility
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The Main Priorities
IPA 2 : Cross Border Cooperation
Support to the
introduction of EU
territorial cohesion
policy addressed by :
• Bi-lateral cross-border
programmes with
Member States
• Multi-country
programmes (sea
basins)
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The Main Priorities
IPA 3 : Regional Development
3 main fields of intervention
• transport
•
environment
•
regional competitiveness
• Transport infrastructure, focusing
on connection with TEN-T
networks;
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Environment projects related to
waste management, water
supply, urban waste water and air
quality. Energy efficiency,
renewable energy and clean
urban transport.
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Restructuring of industrial
zones, including rehabilitation of
contaminated sites and land;
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IPA 1 : Regional Development
also includes these priorities
• Innovation and entrepreneurship, through the promotion of SMEs,
including strengthening of regional research and innovation capacities, aid
to promote technology transfer, development of business networks and
clusters
• Information society, including development of local content, services and
applications, broad band networks, aid and services to SMEs to adopt and
effectively use information and communication technologies (ICTs);
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Social investments (Education and Health), where their lack hamper
regional development
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The Main Priorities
IPA 4 : Human Resource Development
• Contribute towards the priorities
of the Community through
strengthening economic and
social cohesion (in conjunction
with component III)
• Support actions in line with the
European Employment Strategy,
and
• Underpin the priorities and
objectives of the Community by:
strengthening education
and training systems
bringing inactive groups into
the labour market
combating social exclusion
(disadvantaged groups)
promoting equality between
men and women, and
combating discrimination
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IPA 3 & 4 : Regional & HR Development
have important principles for intervention
• Concentration of action, both sectoral and geographical
• Complementarity, Consistancy and Coordination between actions
• Coordination between Components
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The Main Priorities
IPA 5 : Rural Development
The overall objective of the
• Improving the technological and
Programme is Implementation of
market infrastructure for increased
the acquis communautaire
added value of agri-food products and
concerning the common
achieved compliance with EU quality,
agricultural policy and related
health, food safety and environmental
policies for competitive and
standards
sustainable agriculture; strong,
• Improved quality of life of rural
sustainable rural communities
population, increased income and
and diverse and sustainable rural
creation of new employment
environment.
opportunities
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How are the IPA funds Programmed?
Strategic Plans for 7 years • Major Projects selection
in transport and
Operational Plans for 3 + 4
environment
years
• Matching with National
Multi-annual Indicative
& Community Priorities
Programme Documents
(MIPD)
• Matching with
budgetary framework
Multi-annual Indicative
Financial Frameworks
(MIFF)
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How big are the funds?!
IPA 2007-2010 Country Funds (indicative)
Countries
2007
2008
2009
2010
Turkey
497.2
538.7
566.4
653.7
Croatia
138.5
146.0
151.2
154.2
FYROM
58.5
70.2
81.8
92.3
Serbia
186.7
190.9
194.8
198.7
Montenegro
31.4
32.6
33.30
34.0
Kosovo
63.3
64.7
66.1
67.3
BosniaHerzegovina
62.1
74.8
89.1
106.0
Albania
61.0
70.7
81.2
93.2
TOTALS
1098.7
1188.6
1263.9
1399.4
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Other Instruments for EU
External Assistance
The ways in which the EU plans and
distributes its development
cooperation outside the EU
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A mix of ‘horizontal’ and geographical
instruments:
• Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)
• European Neighbourhood & Partnership Instrument
(ENPI)
• European Instrument for Democracy & Human
Rights (EIDHR)
• Instrument for Stability
Plus, the European Development Fund (EDF)
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The Community Programmes
A series of integrated measures accepted by the European
Commission aiming to strengthen the co-operation among
the Member States regarding Community policies over a
given period of time. The Community Programmes are
financed from the general budget of the Community.
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The Community Programmes
Acceding and Candidate
countries have the
opportunity to
participate in the
programmes, although,
as a main condition of
participation, an annual
fee has to be paid to
the budget.
Community Programmes
can be tied to almost
every Community
policy. The Community
decides on the type of
programmes, their
budgets and their
durations
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Key Community Programmes for CSOs in the Pre-Accession
Countries
•
Culture Programme (20072013)
• Erasmus Mundus
• Public Health
• Europe for Citizens
• Youth in Action
• FP7
• LIFE + Integrated Action Programme
in Lifelong Learning
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How does the EU channel its
investments?
Through different types of projects
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‘Macro’ Projects
• With objectives of national
importance
• Maybe cross-sectoral
• Managed from the Centre
• Often complex (with
multiple components)
Eg.s Modernisation of a
Ministry; Promoting an
active labour market
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‘Micro’ Projects
• With objectives of local
importance or ‘pilot’ in nature
• Usually sector-based
• Managed locally (but may be
part of a ‘macro’ project)
• Usually limited to one type of
‘action’
Eg.s Improving drinking water
supply of municipality;
improving services for internal
migrants
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How are the projects
implemented?
Through awarded grants
to achieve specific
objectives
- Operational grants
- Action grants
- Competitive Calls
- Direct Awards
Through public
contracting to buy
specific
- Services
- Supplies
- Works
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What is a ‘grant’?
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A payment of a non-commercial
nature by the Contracting
Authority to a specific
beneficiary to implement an
action intended to help achieve
an objective forming part of a
European Union policy
But it is not a donation!!!
Funds support activities of
beneficiaries
Funds cover only eligible
incurred costs
• A grant may support projects:
– whose immediate objective is
non-commercial
– whose activities are within
the normal scope of the
application organisation
• The project is managed solely by
the Grant Beneficiary
• The results of the project are
owned by the beneficiaries (or
partners)
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Funding benefits and is managed
by Governments, business, and
Civil Society
How does the EU define ‘civil
society’?
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CSOs
EC’s Civil Society Dialogue
The European Economic and Social
Committee (EESC) defines ‘civil
society organisations’ as “all
organisational structures whose
members have objectives and
responsibilities that are of general
interest and who also act as
mediators between the public
authorities and citizens”
Civil society includes: the labour-market
actors, i.e. the social partners (trade
unions and employers federations);
organisations representing social and
economic players at large (consumer
organisations for instance,); nongovernmental organisations (NGOs)
and community-based organisations,
i.e. organisations at grassroots level
through which citizens participate in
local and municipal life (e.g. youth or
family associations); religious
communities and media.
Non-State Actors
Terminology used under EDF
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Project Cycle Management
The tools for identifying, developing,
formatting, financing, implementing,
and monitoring EU-funded projects
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