Transcript RG01 Roberts

THE OBJECTIVE 1
PROGRAMME FOR WALES:
LESSONS LEARNED IN
PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT
AND PERSPECTIVES
Dr Emyr Roberts, Chief Executive,
Welsh European Funding Office
28 September 2004
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Welsh Programmes - Value (€)
European Funds
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Objective 1
1,853 m
Objective 2
121 m
Objective 3
132 m
INTERREG IIIA
48 m
URBAN
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LEADER+
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Objective 1- Programme
Structure (1)
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Single Programming Document
Programme Complement
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4 funds (ERDF, ESF, EAGGF, FIFG)
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. • 6 Priorities
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– Expanding and developing small and medium-sized
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enterprises (SMEs)
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– Developing innovation and the knowledge-based
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economy
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– Community economic regeneration
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– Developing people
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– Strategic Infrastructure Development
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Objective 1 - Targets
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. • Create 43,500 net additional jobs
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. • Contribute to reducing economic inactivity
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Objective 1 - Current Position
(end August 2004)
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€ 3,942 million total programme
€1,853 million European money
1,195 projects approved to date
63% funds committed
31% paid to end of July 2004
€2,898 million total project investment
31,855 gross new jobs created
40,505 jobs safeguarded
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Lessons - Administrative
Structures
• Need to put programme firmly within the overall
national/regional development framework
• Identify partners and how you are going to
engage with them
• Private sector - special arrangements?
• Programme Monitoring Committee - size,
membership, structure
• Advisory Groups - harness expertise
• Local partnerships - technical assistance
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Lessons - Programme Structures
• Must link to national/regional
development strategies and priorities
• Keep programming documents simple and
flexible
• Consider targets and indicators from outset
• Build in monitoring and evaluation, and
link to IT system
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Lessons - Managing Finances
• Establish robust, user-friendly Management
Information system to track commitment,
spend and outputs at programme and project
level
• ‘n+2’ targets: prepare for the worst
• Accurate financial profiles
• Relationships with project sponsors
• Beware the fine print!
• Robust payment and audit functions
• Exchange rates - an added complication
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Lessons - Project Development
and Delivery
• Dialogue/training for project sponsors
• Consider role of intermediaries - don’t
reinvent the wheel
• Risk assessment of projects and impact on
programme
• Beware State Aids
• Aftercare
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Lessons - Private Sector
• Define roles:
– monitor (PMC)
– advice (PMC, Advisory Groups)
– delivery (projects)
• Importance of intermediaries
• Private sector facilitators/advice
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Lessons - Publicity
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Need a public relations plan
Try to set realistic expectations
Claim the credit for projects
Show what’s happening on the ground
Share best practice
Project sponsors/beneficiaries - best
ambassadors
• Share the good news with the European
Commission
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Looking Forward - Post 2006
• Establish national/regional development
priorities and how Structural Funds are going to
help deliver them
• Work on projects as well as programme
structures
• Need robust Management Information system to
underpin programme
• Keep programme structure as simple as possible
• Constantly monitor and put contingencies in
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• Spread the word - Structural Funds are making a
difference
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Dr Emyr Roberts
Chief Executive
Welsh European Funding Office
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ
Tel: +44(0)29 20823634
Fax: +44(0)29 20823797
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.wefo.wales.gov.uk