Humber ESIF Information Sessions
Claire Watts,
External Funding & Policy Manager,
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
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European Structural and Investment Funds
SFA Service Offer (the ‘Opt-in’).
Agency Role
Deliver the ESF element of the ESIF programme on
behalf of the Managing Authority.
Support LEP area level delivery of ESIF activity.
Agency Service Offer
• Advise and support LEPs to develop Procurement
Initiation Documents (PIDs)
• Develop specifications
• Procurement (via Bravo)
• Tendering and Evaluation Process
• Contracting and Managing Providers
• Performance Management Process
Agency Service Offer
• Operate and maintain systems and processes
to support delivery
• Provide data on activity being delivered
• Provide Match Funding
• Compile and submit ESF Claims
• Ensure compliance with audit requirements
• Manage risk.
Anticipated Timeline:
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Now: Draft specifications being prepared from the Procurement
Initiation Documents (PIDS) submitted by LEPs
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Now : Applications to Managing Authority for each LEP area. 1
application per Priority per LEP
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June/July appraisal of applications conducted by the MA
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July: MOUs in place
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End July: procurement begins
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End October: contracting begins
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December: delivery commences
ERDF – July 2015
James Trowsdale
Investment Manager
Humber LEP
July 2015 – What’s happened since we last met?
– Calls launched in March
– Outline Business Plans received and are being
appraised
– Operational programme agreed
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-europeanregional-development-fund-operational-programme-2014to-2020
Things to think about
– Operational Programme highlights what can be
funded, but it’s not black and white!
– Some activities appear to be deliverable across
direct Priority Axes (business support and low
carbon type, innovation)
– Exchange rates changes (€1 = £0.71 today, at time
of writing strategy €1 = £0.85)
Summer Priorities
– More calls to be released in early August
– Community Led Local Development guidance
anticipated soon (c£9m)
– Access to Finance guidance anticipated soon
(c£7m)
– Projects being appraised and considered
– Strategy to be refreshed
What ‘Calls’ will be open in summer?
 PA1 – Innovation (ESIF strategy budget remaining
= £4.14m)
 PA2 – ICT Support (£2.57m)
 PA3 – SME Support (£6.4m)
 PA4 – Low Carbon (£4.56m)
 PA5 – Climate Change (£10.1m)
 PA6 – Environmental Protection (£4.42m)
Key documents
Humber LEP Area ESIF Strategy
http://www.humberlep.org/strategies-and-deals/european-structural-andinvestment-funds-strategy/
All calls across England
https://www.gov.uk/european-structural-investment-funds
ESF draft Operational programme
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/european-social-fundoperational-programme-2014-to-2020
ERDF Operational Programme
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/european-regionaldevelopment-fund-operational-programme-2014-to-2020
Name of call
PA1 Research and Innovation:
call in the Humber
Investment Priority
1b - Promoting business investment in
research and innovation; developing links and
synergies between enterprises....
Funding source
ERDF
Remaining funds in Humber ESIF
Strategy
£4.14m
Minimum funding application
£500,000
Geography
all or part of the Humber
Research and Innovation
• Aims to increase investment in research and innovation by small
and medium sized enterprises, particularly in sectors and
technologies identified through smart specialisation.
• Aim is to support key sectors in the Humber area to drive
growth
• Energy Estuary
• Ports and Logistics
• Digital
Potential activities – some examples
• Support for the commercialisation of new products and
business processes and initiatives
• Collaborative and contract research
• Technology support programmes and demonstrator projects
and programmes for current and future technologies
• Innovation vouchers
• Schemes providing practical, financial and material support for
the innovation process within businesses;
• Knowledge transfer programmes
Name of call
PA2 – ICT Support
Investment Priority
2b – Developing Information and Communications
Technology products and services, e-commerce, and
enhancing demand for Information and Communications
Technology.
Remaining funds in
Humber ESIF Strategy
£2.57m
Minimum funding
application
Geography
£500,000
all or part of the Humber – Focus on areas which have not
benefitted previously (e.g. Hull, Grimsby and Scunthorpe)
Potential activities – some examples
• Support for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises to update or
introduce new ICT business models which will drive business
performance
• Provision of coaching, advice, consultancy, mentoring and
support for SMEs to access new markets through improved
ICT
• Provision of coaching, advice, consultancy, mentoring and
support for to develop ICT skills strategies
• Provision of coaching, advice, consultancy, mentoring and
support for to implement productivity improvements from
use of Information and Communication Technology
• Demand-side voucher schemes
• Demonstration and pilot projects, showcasing how SMEs can
stimulate innovation through smart use of ICT
• Support for diffusion of results from demonstration and pilot
projects
• Support for the integration of SMEs in digital supply chains
through the smart use of Information and Communication
Technology
Name of call
PA3 – SME Support
Investment Priority
Remaining funds in Humber ESIF
Strategy
3c - Supporting the creation and the
extension of advanced capacities for
products, services and development
£6.4m (£5m outlined for Access to Finance,
some projects in appraisal)
Minimum funding application
£500,000
Geography
all or part of the Humber
Potential activities – some examples
• Provision of advice to develop new business models or higher
quality products, processes or services;
• Advice and support for businesses to implement productivity
improvements including through the provision of resource
efficiency advice;
• Advice to improve business processes and workforce
development;
• Advice and support for supply chain interventions to
strengthen and grow the domestic supplier base;
Potential activities – some examples
• Attracting new direct foreign investment into England;
• Provision of advice, consultancy support, mentoring, peer to
peer support, and support for collaborative projects;
• Grant finance for business to invest for product, process and
service improvements; and
• Provision of independent access to finance advice.
Name of call
PA3 SME support – International
Trade Performance
Investment Priority
3d - Supporting the capacity of small and
medium sized enterprises to grow in
regional, national and international markets
and to engage in innovation processes
Up to £TBC of funding is available through
this call.
Funding
A minimum value of £500,000 of funding can
be applied for.
Geography
Humber strategy states funding of up to
£1m.
Humber and other parts of England
Potential activities – some examples
• Provision of efficient local referral routes to ensure that small
and medium sized enterprises are able to identify and access
the most appropriate and tailored support for their specific
growth needs;
• Support small and medium sized enterprises to develop
focused growth strategies and update or introduce new
business models which will drive business performance;
• Advice and support for small and medium sized enterprises to
enter, establish and expand in international markets;
Potential activities – some examples
• Provision of advice, consultancy, mentoring and peer-to-peer
support to indigenous businesses;
• Leadership and management coaching where connected to
the development and implementation of a business growth
plan;
• Support events, trade fairs and missions to enable small and
medium sized enterprises to enter, establish and expand in
international markets;
• Targeted grant schemes to support productive investment;
Name of call
PA4 – Low Carbon
Investment priority
4b – Promoting energy efficiency and
renewable energy in enterprises.
Funding source
ERDF
Remaining funds in Humber ESIF
Strategy
£4.56m (£2m outlined for Access to Finance)
Minimum funding application
£500,000
Outline application deadline
TBC
Geography
all or part of the Humber
Potential activities – some examples
• Enhanced advice, support, information and action to promote
innovation in businesses and how they operate, in order to
deliver best practice in energy management. This will include
innovation in energy efficiency and energy cost reduction to
improve businesses’ competitiveness and resilience
• Support to businesses to undertake ‘green’ diagnostics or
audits of energy efficiency and potential for renewable
generation and energy use, which will be followed by
provision of energy efficiency information and guidance,
tailored energy action plans and of support to implement
them
Potential activities – some examples
• Investing in energy efficiency measures, processes and
renewable generation capacity to improve a business’ or
building’s environmental performance or its resilience to the
impacts of climate change
• Supporting increased SME access to national and local
government procured contracts for energy efficient goods and
services
• Developing low carbon innovation in relation to energy
efficiency within enterprises, including through technologies
and engagement practices
Name of call
PA5 – Climate Change
Investment priority
5d - promoting investment to address
specific risks, ensuring disaster resilience
and developing disaster management
systems.
Remaining funds in Humber ESIF
Strategy
£10.1m
Minimum funding application
£500,000
Geography
Parts of the Humber with high flood risk and
potential for economic growth
South Humber Bank
6/12/13
Potential activities – some examples
• Focus on coastal resilience, fluvial risk management, and
Surface water run-off and drainage systems
• Managed realignment and mitigation of coastal squeeze
• Shoreline re-nourishment, cliff and dune system stabilisation
• Improvements to frontages and seawalls
• Strengthening and extensions to estuary embankments
• Onsite or upstream attenuation and slowing the flow
measures
• Resilience measures for business infrastructure, including for
example wet or dry flood-proofing
Name of call
PA6 – Preserving and Protecting the
Environment and Promoting Resource
Efficiency
Investment Priority
6b Protecting and restoring biodiversity and soil and
promoting ecosystem services, including through Natura
2000 and green infrastructure
Remaining funds in
Humber ESIF Strategy
£4.42m
Minimum funding
application
Geography
£500,000
Across the Humber, but opportunity to link with PA5 call
Potential activities – some examples
• Investment in green and blue infrastructure such as green
corridors in urban areas and waterways
• Green Infrastructure; definitions are set out in the National
Planning Policy and in Natural England’s Green Infrastructure
guide
• Blue Infrastructure is a sub-set of this and refers to the waterrelated features (rivers, ponds, lakes etc) that play a crucial
role in providing benefits to people and wildlife
• Sustainable drainage to improve water quality and in some
cases local air quality.
What calls are being released in overlap areas
– Greater Lincolnshire
• No ERDF calls until Autumn
– York North Yorkshire East Riding
• PA1 - Research & Innovation business support
call
• PA2- ICT infrastructure
PA2/3 (TBC) - ICT business support
Any questions?
Community Led Local Development
(CLLD)
Claire Watts,
External Funding & Policy Manager,
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
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Community Led Local Development (CLLD)
• Builds on LEADER ‘bottom-up’ approach used under EAFRD in rural
areas but new instrument in context of ERDF and ESF.
• Main principles of CLLD set out in Common Provisions Regulation
(CPR) and Fund specific Regulations e.g. :
 CPR Articles 32-35 setting definition of CLLD, content of CLLD
strategies, roles of MA and Local Action Groups and scope of
ESIF support.
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Thematic Objective 9 Promoting social inclusion, combating poverty
and any discrimination.
Programmed under Priority Axis 8 of the ERDF OP and Priority Axis
1, Investment Priority1.5 of ESF OP
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Community Led Local Development (CLLD)
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Scope for CLLD activity is negotiated between MAs and DG Regio
and DG Emploi as part of Operational Programmes;
New instrument for ERDF/ESF;
Optional rather than mandatory approach required by Regulations
(the case with LEADER);
Not co-financed;
Reflects Government’s support for localism and community
engagement / ownership in strategies to drive growth and jobs.
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So what is CLLD?
Bottom Up,
Focused on
sub-regional
areas
Strategies
developed and
led by Local
Action Groups
representing
public, private
and local socioeconomic
interests
Driven by local
needs and
potential and
innovative at
local level
Integrated /
Multisectoral
area based
strategies
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Community Led Local Development (CLLD)
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Territorial cohesion by addressing concentrations of deprivation
and disparities in economic performance at lower geographic
levels;
Focus on need, assets and opportunity to ‘unlock’ growth and
jobs potential in deprived areas;
Empower communities and devolve decision-making to lowest
level – increase community capacity / achieve ‘double devolution’;
Targeted approach to area / community in primarily urban and
non-LEADER areas.
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CLLD focus in OPs
SME
competitiveness
innovation (social
innovation)
Entrepreneurship
TO 9 Social
inclusion,
poverty,
discrimination
Pathways to
integration and
access to the
labour market,
Skills and
Employment
Reduced social
and economic
isolation faced by
individuals and
communities
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Added Value
• Complement and add value to mainstream programme
activity;
• Embed long term, integrated / place based approaches;
• Seeks to build upon local assets and mobilise local
resources in a more sustainable manner;
• Encourages communities to take ownership and design
local solutions to local issues;
• Sustained intervention over medium to longer term
focussed on the specific needs of a particular area;
• Facilitate integrated, multi-fund and multi-sectoral
approaches where appropriate.
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What ERDF/ESF CLLD is not:
• Only way to support investment in local development,
community/smaller scale projects;
• A general community development Priority Axis (i.e. Growth and
Jobs focused);
• A formulaic funding model and allocation;
• Co-financed (matched at source);
• A light touch administrative and compliance regime .
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Issues raised in negotiations with EU:
• Must demonstrate the added value of CLLD over mainstream
programme activity;
• Need to set out value for money, critical mass and rationale for use
of CLLD i.e. why use complex methodology involved in CLLD;
• Need to demonstrate how CLLD complements mainstream
programme activity;
• Move from ‘permissive/ allocative’ approach to a competitive
approach;
• EU views CLLD as a limited specific intervention to address a
particular set of circumstances NOT a mainstream delivery
mechanism.
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Following negotiations with the EU
CLLD will:
• Focus upon sub-regional / sub-LEP areas with population of
between 10,000 and 150,000;
• Be led by Local Action Groups representing public, private and local
socio-economic interests;
• Complement but not duplicate LEADER and Fisheries CLLD activity;
• Adopt integrated approaches with a minimum threshold of EUR 3m
public funding contribution;
• Be driven by local needs and potential as identified by the
community through the Local Action Group;
• Be innovative at local level.
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Following negotiations with the EU
CLLD will:
• Provide for a lead fund for management and
administration at implementation stage (up to 25%);
• Make programme resource available at preparatory and
implementation stage;
• Have delivered a first wave of CLLD by October 2016
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Targeting
• Transition and More Developed regions => prioritise
areas identified as being in top 20% most deprived areas
by Index of Multiple Deprivation (2010)
• Less Developed => prioritise areas in 30% most
deprived by reference to IMD
• Scope at margin to link non-IMD adjacent areas to area
targeted where demonstrate link need with opportunity,
more coherent functional economic geography
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20% most deprived areas
(IMD 2010)
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Most deprived LSOAs in LEPs in Yorkshire and the Humber Area
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30% most deprived areas
(IMD 2010)
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ERDF priorities include:
• Actions to promote competitiveness of SMEs
• Address poor quality local/ small scale business
infrastructure
• Actions to address lack of amenities, community
capacity / social capital and low levels of enterprise /
entrepreneurship (including social enterprise)
• Poor linkages between areas of deprivation and areas of
high economic growth and jobs opportunities
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Indicative activity ERDF:
• Facilitation and capacity building activity in targeted
areas that seeks to mobilise community resources and
build upon local assets to mitigate risk of social exclusion
and act as a foundation for improved economic
performance;
• Provision of small scale community hub facilities to
support SMEs (including social enterprise) in targeted
areas;
• Promotion of entrepreneurship and self-employment in
deprived areas and targeted communities.
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Indicative activity ERDF:
• Tailored business support activity; mentoring; coaching; information,
advice and guidance;
• Small equipment grants;
• Provision of business space;
• Support for clustering, networking, cooperating or local supply
chains collaboration;
• Better connectivity between deprived neighbourhoods and areas of
need with areas of opportunity and employment growth;
• Support to embed and apply innovation in a local context that builds
on community assets in pursuit of jobs and growth;
• Support for new forms of enterprise (including the social economy
and social enterprise).
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Key elements ERDF:
• Priority 8: Specific Objective:
– To build capacity within communities as a foundation
for economic growth in deprived areas;
• Key outputs:
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–
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Number of enterprises receiving support;
Number of new enterprises supported;
Employment increase in supported enterprises;
Number of potential entrepreneurs assisted to be enterprise
ready;
– Square metres public or commercial building built or renovated
in targeted areas.
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ESF priorities include:
• Embedding access to opportunities for growth for all
areas and groups;
• Addressing persistent levels of unemployment, economic
inactivity and poverty, particularly in urban areas;
• Promotion of entrepreneurship and access to local
services and amenities.
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ESF priorities include:
• Tackling multiple deprivation and work related barriers
for those furthest from the labour market.
• Reducing employment barriers linked to social and
economic isolation, for example by addressing health,
debt and money management issues and increasing
access to information and advice sources;
• Facilitating community participation and engagement
and support to address specific issues within local
economies – e.g. low level skills
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Indicative activity ESF:
• Innovative activity to tackle multiple deprivation and specific
local barriers to accessing employment and skills;
• Providing individual pathways to integration and re-entry into
employment;
• Improving the integration of marginalised families and
communities;
• Combating discrimination in local areas that are based on
gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age
or sexual orientation.
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Indicative activity ESF:
• Increasing access to information and advice on debt and
money management;
• Improving low level skills amongst young people NEET and
adults, (e.g. communication, ICT and digital skills);
• Facilitating community participation and engagement,
including community leadership and peer support
programmes;
• Addressing poor linkages between areas of deprivation with
nearby areas of high economic growth and job opportunities.
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Key elements ESF:
• Priority Axis1 (Inclusive Labour Markets) - Investment
Priority 1.5 - Specific Objective:
– To deliver additional localised support to people in
particularly deprived areas, so that they move towards or
into employment.
• Key results (percentage of):
– Unemployed participants into employment on leaving;
– Inactive participants into employment, or job search on
leaving;
– Participants into education or training on leaving.
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CLLD Strategies
• Definition of the area and population to be covered by the strategy;
• Analysis of development needs/ potential of the area, including a
SWOT analysis;
• Description of the strategy and its objectives, innovative features
and measurable targets for outputs and results (consistent with fund
specific OPs);
• Description of community involvement process in the development
of the strategy;
• Action Plan;
• Management and control systems, capacity of the local action
group, evaluation;
• Financial plan (allocation from each ESI fund).
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Tasks of Local Action Group
• Design and implement CLLD strategies;
• Identify lead partner in administrative and financial matters
(Accountable Body);
• Build capacity of local actors to develop and implement operations;
• Draw up non-discriminatory and transparent selection procedure
and objective criteria for the selection of operations/ projects, which
avoids conflicts of interest, ensuring that at least 50% of the votes in
selection decisions are (from) partners which are not public
authorities.
• Allow selection by written procedure.
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LAG Tasks
• Ensuring coherence with the CLLD strategy when selecting
projects, prioritising them according to their contribution to
meeting the strategy’s objectives and targets;
• Preparing and publishing calls for proposals or an on-going
project submission procedure, including definition of selection
criteria;
• Receiving Applications and assessing them;
• Selecting Operations and fixing the amount of support and
where relevant, presenting the proposals to the responsible
body for final verification of eligibility before approval;
• Monitoring the implementation of the CLLD strategy and the
operations supported and carrying out specific evaluation
activities linked to the CLLD strategy
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Summary proposals – key elements:
• Reflects narrowing of CLLD scope following negotiations
with EU Commission;
• Encourages integrated CLLD strategies drawing
primarily upon ERDF/ESF OPs;
• Premised upon a two stage process involving a
preparatory stage for each LAG area and CLLD
strategy and an implementation stage for which
programme resources are eligible;
• Proposes use of a delegated grant fund model
simplifying MA role and minimising resource implications
without losing tasks delegated to LAGs.
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Next Steps: High level summary
Stage 1 Preparatory
From summer 2015
• MA develops joint ESF/ERDF Call to develop Local Action Group, CLLD Strategy and identify Accountable Body
• MA works with Local ESIF Committee to ensure local strategic priorities are reflected in Call
• Call focused on local ESIFs with agreed CLLD framework proposals in local ESIF strategies
• MA makes preparatory support available
• MA led Selection Committee undertakes assessment / approval of CLLD Strategy, LAG and proposed Accountable Body
Outcome of Stage 1
• Accountable Body invited to submit detailed application for implementation of the Agreed CLLD Strategy
• Integrated approach ERDF/ESF with lead fund for management and administration
• Proposed Delegated Grant Fund Model underpinned by Funding Agreement and MA / applicant management and control,
assurance processes
Stage 2 Implementation
•
Accountable Body / LAG led implementation fulfilling EC Regulatory requirements (Article 34)
From 2016
• MA / ESIF ongoing monitoring of strategic fit and alignment with ESIF strategy and OP targets
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Draft Business Process
2014-2020 ESIF Business Process for Community Led Local Development (CLLD) (derogation)
LEP Area ESIF Committee
Managing Authority
Applicant / Grant Recipient
Stage 1: Preparatory Stage
Sign Funding
Agreement to
establish LAG,
develop CLLD
strategy and
identify AB
Submit Full
Application to
establish LAG,
develop a CLLD
strategy, propose
an AB
Publish Call / Spec
(DCLG/DWP in
parallel) to develop
CLLD Strategy,
establish Local Action
Groups (LAG) and
propose an
Accountable Body
(AB)
GDT/MA eligibility preliminary
assessment of FA
·
Geographic coverage
·
Rationale relevant
against OP(s)
·
Organisation
·
Detail preparation
costs
·
Scale (population/£)
·
1 month (end Oct)
·
MA Selects
Define local ESIF
Strategy .Advise on/
identify local strategic
priorities. Alignment to
national OP
(Operational
Programme)
Promote opportunities to potential
applicants.
Moderation
MA Agreement to
proceed
Issues/Approve
FA
Advise MA on fit
of CLLD Strategy
in local ESIF and
local strategic
priorities
Successful LAG
submits Full
Application for
implementation of
CLLD strategy via AB
Establish LAG/AB
Develop CLLD
Strategy –
submitto MA
MA led selection
committee (rolling
basis)
Advise MA on fit
of CLLD Strategy
in local ESIF and
local strategic
priorities
Support Applicants in developing proposals
Stage 2: FA and Implementation of CLLD Strategy
Approve strategy,
invite Full Application
for CLLD
implementation
Date of retrospection
for Stage 2
Assessment of Full Application
·
Capacity / LAG role
·
Lead Fund / separation of
functions
·
Management Control and
reporting
·
Delegated Grant Fund
model
·
Outputs
·
Eligibility etc
Advise MA on fit of
CLLD Strategy in local
ESIF and local
strategic priorities
AB signs Funding
Agreement for
implementation
Implementation via
AB/LAG
Funding Agreement
Delegated Grant Fund
Model
·
·
·
·
·
Eligibility
Monitoring &
Control
Reporting
Assurance
Evaluation
Ongoing review of
strategic fit and
alignment with ESIF
Strategy.
Monitoring
performance in LEP
areas against OP
targets
Version 5 (11 June 2015)
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Indicative timeline
By September
2015
(2 months)
By Dec 2015
(2-3 months)
By January 2016
(1month)
By July 2016
(6 months)
• Call Stage 1 Preparatory Costs
• Applicant submits Full Application
• MA assessment and moderation
• MA facilitates advice from Local ESIF committee
• Issue and approve Funding Agreement for preparatory costs (£30k-£40k)
• Applicant signs Funding Agreement
• Preparatory phase leads to development of Local Action Group, Draft CLLD
Strategy and identification of proposed accountable body
• Applicant submits to MA
Indicative timeline
By Sept 2016
(2 months)
By November
2016
(2 months)
By March 2017
(3-4 months)
By April 2017
• GDT assessment; MA led Selection Committee (GDT leads/national policy/thematic lead/ independent
local economic development expert)
• MA facilitates advice from local ESIF
• MA approves and invites successful applicants to progress to Stage 2 and submit Full Application
• Stage 2 – Applicant (accountable body) submits Full Application for implementation of
agreed CLLD strategy (identifying lead fund for management and administration where
appropriate)
• MA technical appraisal
• MA facilitates advice from local ESIF
• MA issues Funding Agreement for Stage 2 implementation
• Applicant signs Funding Agreement
• Implementation
Any questions?
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Technical Assistance (TA)
Sarah Clark, Programmes Manager, East Riding of Yorkshire Council
What is TA?
• Funding from EC to support
administration of ESIF
• Match funded by applicants/partners
• Ensures ERDF and ESF Programmes
are managed, monitored and
evaluated in line with applicable law
and regulations
Technical Assistance in the Humber to date
• Humber Technical Assistance Phase 1 (Apr 09 - Mar 12)
(ERDF 2007-13 Programme only)
• Humber Technical Assistance Phase 2 (Apr 12 – Sep 15)
(ERDF 2007-13 Programme only)
• Delivering one to one and one to many support from project
idea to project closedown to any project applicant/manager
• Delivering workshops, masterclasses and information sessions,
such as this one!
ESIF 2014-20 Technical Assistance
National Call
• National Call for Technical Assistance announced in
March 15
• European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) TA
and
• For the first time European Social Fund (ESF) TA
• Applications submitted to deliver both ERDF and ESF
across Humber and York, North Yorkshire, East
Riding LEP areas Technical Assistance
ESIF 2014-20 Technical Assistance
Proposed Local Partners
Including:
• Local Authorities/Councils
• FE / HE
• Representative organisations of the voluntary and
community sector
• Representative organisation of the natural
environment
ESIF 2014-20 Technical Assistance
Proposed Eligible Activities
Project development and capacity building:
• Support to applicants to encourage participation in the ESIF
Programme, particularly voluntary, community and social
enterprise sector
• Support to any applicants during outline application
• Support to any applicants during full application stage (subject
to MA approval)
• Systems and process development advice and support
ESIF 2014-20 Technical Assistance
Proposed Eligible Activities
Project development and capacity building (cont’d…):
• Commissioning/undertaking feasibility studies (in exceptional
circumstances and subject to MA approval)
• Preparatory support for Local Action Groups for the
development of Local Development Strategies for CLLD
• Other activities deemed necessary by the MA (DCLG for
ERDF TA and DWP for ESF TA)
ESIF 2014-20 Technical Assistance
Proposed Eligible Activities
Publicity and promotion:
• Awareness raising, communicating programme activities –
newsletters, case studies, use of social media
• Promoting cooperation, networking and exchange of best
practise – LEP areas, nationally and across Europe
• Delivering promotional events – seminars, conferences,
roadshows to showcase ERDF and ESF achievements and
• Publicising bidding rounds – such as this event!
ESIF 2014-20 Technical Assistance
What happens now?
ERDF TA Application
• Submitted to DCLG - April 15
• Humber and YNYER ESIF Committees – July 15
• Full application request anticipated - end July 15
• Project starts as HTA2 ends – Sep/Oct 15
ESF TA Application
• Submitted to DWP - June 15
• Humber and YNYER ESIF Committees – Aug/Sep 15??
• Full application request could be Sep 15??
• Project starts – Dec 15??
Ask for help!
humber-ta@eastriding.gov.uk
or
01482 391663