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Is Twinning Worth the Effort? The Instrument and Its Foreseeable Future. Paolo Gozzi Twinning and SIGMA Coordination Team European Commission, DG Enlargement – Institution Building Unit. Twinning – Unique In Its Kind. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Is Twinning Worth the Effort?Is Twinning Worth the Effort?The Instrument and Its Foreseeable FutureThe Instrument and Its Foreseeable Future
Paolo Gozzi
Twinning and SIGMA Coordination Team
European Commission, DG Enlargement – Institution Building Unit
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Twinning – Unique In Its Kind
Both provider and beneficiary of the assistance belong to a Public Administration
Peer-to-peer Non-commercial approach
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Why Should a MS Administration Engage in Twinning?
Tangible Benefits – Activities performed at zero cost
Intangible Benefits – Networking, visibility, internationalisation
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Tangible Benefits
Re-imbursement to the payroll institution of the wage and non-wage labour costs of the Resident Twinning Adviser, plus an additional 6%.
Twinning Management Costs (based on a compensation given to the institution that sends short/medium term experts to the project).
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Intangible benefits
Development of capabilities and know-how of the involved human resources.
Increase the prestige of the institution. International Relations: Strengthening
relations with peer institutions in other Member States (consortia) and in Beneficiary Countries.
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How well informed about Twinning are MS Administrations?
Is Twinning known also by those institutions that never benefited from it?
Are all institutions regularly informed about projects?
Is the ‘Junior Partner’ option clear to all?
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Top management Include Twinning in formal mission/vision/strategy paper
of the institution Prospect to top management a role as project leader/key
expert
Second level management Stress the financial (Twinning Management Costs; RTA
re-imbursement costs) and other incentives (international experience; work/missions abroad)
Prospect a role as RTA or expert
How to engage institutions (I)
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How to engage institutions (II)
Consider a central unit for Twinning to assist in:
selecting projects to apply for undertaking administrative assignments that
will make life easier for experts and the management in all phases
drafting applications and contracts, selecting experts and consortia partners
securing adequate financial management
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How to engage institutions (III)
Visibility of Twinning
use local media, intranets, internet, etc. provide internal visibility and understanding inspire potential RTA and STE who will bring their
administrative culture with them stress the prestige of being involved in an
international activity
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Looking ahead
The near future – full implementation of the 2009 Manual
Staring to the horizon – is there a future for Twinning?
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The Near Future
Consolidation of the instrument in IPA & ENP areas
Implementation of new procedures under the Twinning Manual 2009Twinning Review Missions
Specific to some ENP countriesSpecial Case: Eastern Partnership (CIB)
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Staring to the horizon
If it works, don’t fix it… …but adapt to a changing world
Do it the best you can… …but if others do it better, let them do it
Eastern Partnership Statistics
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Eastern Partnership Beneficiaries by sector
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Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Moldova Ukraine
Transport
Trade and industry
Other
Justice and home affairs
Health and consumer protection
Finance
Energy
Employment and social affairs
Agriculture
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Twinning Projects in Eastern Partnership Beneficiaries by Lead MS
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FR
AN
CE
GE
RM
AN
Y
DE
NM
AR
K
NE
TH
ER
LA
ND
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RO
MA
NIA
AU
ST
RIA
ITA
LY
LIT
HU
AN
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SP
AIN
FIN
LA
ND
SW
ED
EN
Ukraine
Moldova
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Armenia
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Twinning projects where Poland was involved as Junior Partner
BENEFICIARY country NUMBER TWINNING PROJECT TITLE Lead MS
Azerbaijan AZ10/ENP-AP/AG/14Support the State Veterinary Service to prepare for a national system for the identification of animals and registration of holdings SPAIN
Ukraine
UA06/PCA/TP/01Harmonisation with EU norms of the legislation and standards of Ukraine in the field of Civil Aviation FRANCE
UA07/PCA/TP/09Support to the strengthening of road freight and passengers transport safety FRANCE
UA08/PCA/FI/13Enhancing performance of Invest Ukraine, the Ukrainian Centre for Foreign Investment Promotion in line with best European practices GERMANY
UA08/PCA/FI/16Strengthening NBU potential through the approximation to EU standards of central banking GERMANY
UA08/PCA/OT/14Support to the development and improvement of the civil servants training system in Ukraine FRANCE
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Pipeline of projects for Eastern Partnership
BENEFICIARY country SECTORNumber of Projects
Armenia Environment 2
Other 2
Trade and industry 1
Azerbaijan Finance 1
Trade and industry 1
Georgia Energy 1
Environment 1
Justice and home affairs 2
Other 2
Trade and industry 2
Moldova Agriculture 1
Finance 2
Health and consumer protection 1
Other 1
Trade and industry 1
Ukraine Employment and social affairs 1
Energy 2
Finance 2
Justice and home affairs 2
Other 2
Telecommunications 1
Trade and industry 4
Thank you
Twinning and SIGMA coordination teamPaolo GozziJordi Rodríguez RuizBirgit PerssonMarc [email protected]