Methodological Support and Training in Aid Delivery Methods

In line with the Aid Effectiveness agenda, the objective of this programme was to contribute to improving the quality of EC external assistance in terms of relevance, effectiveness and feasibility of EC financed projects and programmes. The results foreseen by the programme were the following: general and sector/thematic guidance and related working tools improved; training on Aid Delivery Methods available and responding to priority needs and demand; enhanced capacity to handle methodological issues of major stakeholders in programme management; enhanced sustainable capacity of EuropeAid to produce work in the ADM areas and support quality improvements of EC financed projects/programmes. Three main categories of services were provided to various EC units: providing methodological support, designing and delivering training courses both in Brussels and the selected partner countries and designing, delivering and contributing to supporting innovative capacity building activities. These closely interlinked services were delivered in 4 working areas: • Basic issues in Aid Delivery Methods: the Aid effectiveness agenda and basic concepts in Aid Delivery Methods; the project approach and methodologies in project design; monitoring and evaluation; the economic and financial analysis notably for programmes in productive sectors; contribution to development of project and Programme Cycle Management • The sector Approach and Budget Support: the Programme Based Approaches, the Sector Approach to designing, implementing and monitoring EC programmes and Budget Support as a financing modality. • Public Policy Issues: Public Financial Management (including public financial management reform, tax and revenue collection, public procurement, budget planning, decentralisation, etc.); Poverty Reduction Strategies; Public Sector Administration and Public Sector Reforms; Performance measurement, statistics and working with indicators; Macroeconomics issues; Growth and Development strategies; Decentralisation; Governance. • Cross-cutting working tools and innovations: methodologies and working tools useful in working with all three aid delivery modalities and in any sector of intervention. It includes more innovative action-research work aiming at introducing innovative approaches and tools in the management of external assistance (diagnostic and support to capacity development, stakeholder analysis, context analysis and political economy,...). • Innovative capacity building and activities aimed at facilitating dissemination of information: such as conducting online introductory modules; delivery of lunch time and ad hoc presentations on various topics. • Capacity Development is also supported by a newly created platform “www.capacity4dev.eu” which is populated with articles and interviews produced and generated in collaboration with EC services. Specifically on environment and climate change the programme also supported the development; maintenance and update of the environmental integration web-pages: www.environment-integration.eu


Project Details
Country WORLDWIDE
Start date 2010.09.01
End date 2011.12.22
Client EC AIDCO
Sector MACRO/PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGMENT
Sub-sector Budget Support
Ref. ADE A439