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The Preparation of the OP‘s2007 – 2013 – a good opportunity
to avoid red tape!
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Impact of Red Tape on:
• Effectivity
• Efficiency
• Attractivity
Influence on
• Publicity
• Additionality
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Red Tape in Practice
• Administration– Guidelines– Regulations
• Project Promoters
• Monitoring and Reporting
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Results in the public administration
• Double work (at least)
• Overload of information
• Stop of payments
• N+2 losses
• Demotivation of staff
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Results at project level:
• Only managable by „bigger“ organisations
• Overload of „work“ compared to the results
Influence on
• Image
• Selection of project promoters
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Red tape in monitoring
• Ambitious but not realistic
• Not co-ordinated
• Late in place
• Overload with evaluation
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Solutions for the Public Administration
• Reduce the number of Intermediate Bodys
• Less instruments …
• Stable structures …
• Investment in human capital
More space in the General Regulation
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Solutions at project level:• Less project types• Easy to manage and to monitor• Capped/limited commitments
Examples:• Vocational training vouchers • Consulting products• Local social capital
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Solutions for Monitoring
Make monitoring simple for PP and PA
• Monitoring is not evaluation!
• Concentration on the necessary (-80%)
• Connect financial and physical monitoring!
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Conclusion:The start of the next programming period is a good opportunity to– simplify monitoring, reporting and evaluation for
project and programme manager– concentrate on less and more efficient instruments– increase transparency right from the start.
Communication is crucial!!!
