INFORME DEL SEMINARIO REGIONAL

activities
PARTNERSHIP: (14.81% of answers)
- allows intensive support to partners
- allows establishing stable relationship
- allows institutional capacity building and
empowerment of partners & southern org.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
- reasonable funds for action (11.11%)
- monitoring possible (7.41%)
- allows long/medium term objectives (22.22%)
BLOCK GRANT
THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF THE
INSTRUMENT
TYPE OF ACTIONS:
- allows dealing with specific needs (7.69%)
- allows rapid answer to demand (3.85%)
- allows to focus on themes difficult to fund / pilot
projects / new actions (19.23%)
- allows implementation of actions in more than 1
country / thematic actions (7.69%)
MANAGEMENT:
- small size (7.69%) & flexible (26.92%)
- helps integrating different projects already going
on in NGO (3.85%)
PARTNERSHIP:
- accessible to initiatives/groups which do not
have lobby nor donor relations (3.85%)
- possible to test new partners (11.54%)
- allows high responsibility / ownership from part of
executing agency (3.85%)
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
- allows broadened experience and learning
(3.85%)
CONTRACT-PROGRAMME
THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF THE
INSTRUMENT
APPROACH: (33.33%)
- allows general orientations > better flexibility
- allows strategic long term view
- allows sustainable developing processes
ROLE OF EC: (32.50%)
- bureaucracy / inflexible management from part of EC
- lack of monitoring done by EC
- poor coordination EC Bxl / Delegations
- time needed between submission and acceptance/contract
(1-3 years) > project design not anymore in line with needs
- EC management requirements are not in line with
development reality & constraints faced when
implementing projects
- focus on the financial side rather than on the content
(objectives & expected results)
- no clear agenda for submission of proposals
NEW REGULATION: (10.00%)
- no extension possible
- reduced flexibility for project proposal (in line with
CSP/RSP)
- reduced value added of budget line (CSP/RSP)
- complex & oppressive (eg. Rule of origin)
OTHER ASPECTS:
- co-financing requirements still too high (2.50%)
- duration too short, no long term strategy making it difficult
to assess the impact of the instrument (10.00%)
- impact more localised and hence more reduced (2.50%)
THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF THE INSTRUMENT
ACTIONS: (31.58%)
- too small dimension
- low impact
- low means
- limited in time
ADMINISTRATION OF PROJECT: (15.79%)
- difficult & costly
- difficulties in planning & implementation
ROLE OF EU: (31.58%)
- bureaucracy / inflexible management from part of EU
- length for approval
- no clear agenda for submission of proposals
- cost of submission
NEW REGULATION: (10.53%)
- reduced flexibility for project proposal (in line with
CSP/RSP)
- reduced value added of budget line (CSP/RSP)
- complex & oppressive (e.g. Rule of origin)
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
- difficult to access to this type of financing (5.26%)
- a specific audit has to be chosen but it doesn't help the
NGO's general Audit (5.26%)
THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF THE INSTRUMENT
MANAGEMENT: (50.00%)
- difficult & costly to manage
- time consuming
- not flexible
- high efforts for supervision
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