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Is Twinning Worth the Effort? The Instrument and Its Foreseeable Future

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.

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Is Twinning Worth the Effort? The Instrument and Its Foreseeable Future

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  1. 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

  2. Twinning – Unique In Its Kind • Both provider and beneficiary of the assistance belong to a Public Administration • Peer-to-peer • Non-commercial approach

  3. Why Should a MS Administration Engage in Twinning? • Tangible Benefits – Activities performed at zero cost • Intangible Benefits – Networking, visibility, internationalisation

  4. 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).

  5. 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.

  6. 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?

  7. How to engage institutions (I) 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Looking ahead • The near future – full implementation of the 2009 Manual • Staring to the horizon – is there a future for Twinning?

  11. The Near Future • Consolidation of the instrument in IPA & ENP areas • Implementation of new procedures under the Twinning Manual 2009 • Twinning Review Missions • Specific to some ENP countries • Special Case: Eastern Partnership (CIB)

  12. 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

  13. Eastern Partnership Statistics

  14. Eastern Partnership Beneficiaries by sector

  15. Twinning Projects in Eastern Partnership Beneficiaries by Lead MS

  16. Twinning projects where Poland was involved as Junior Partner

  17. Pipeline of projects for Eastern Partnership

  18. Thank you Twinning and SIGMA coordination team Paolo Gozzi Jordi Rodríguez Ruiz Birgit Persson Marc Patuzzo Elarg-twinning@ec.europa.eu

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