To enhance the capacity of various Government structures in charge of managing EU funds, including SASPAC, NIPAC, NIPAC Support Office, NAO, NAO Management Structures, National Fund, Central Financing and Contracting Unit, Audit Authority, Managing Authorities, and other relevant institutions and stakeholders, to effectively plan, program, implement, report, and evaluate directly and indirectly managed EU assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To enhance the capacity of various Government structures in charge of managing EU funds, including SASPAC, NIPAC, NIPAC Support Office, NAO, NAO Management Structures, National Fund, Central Financing and Contracting Unit, Audit Authority, Managing Authorities, and other relevant institutions and stakeholders, to effectively plan, program, implement, report, and evaluate directly and indirectly managed EU assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-7342","euprojects","type-euprojects","status-publish","hentry","area_types-national","sectors-other"],"acf":[],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_euprojects_project_status":"Ongoing","ptb_euprojects_cris_number":"IPA III\/2024\/454-815","ptb_euprojects_project_value":"2474400","ptb_euprojects_":{"euprojects__1":"0"},"ptb_euprojects_project_timeline":{"euprojects_project_timeline_1":"0"},"ptb_euprojects_eu_contribution_value_":"2474400","ptb_euprojects_implementation_partners":"SASPAC;\r\nNIPAC;\r\nNIPAC Support Office;\r\nNAO\/NAO Management Structures;\r\nNational Fund;\r\nCentral Financing and Contracting Unit;\r\nAudit Authority.","ptb_euprojects_overall_objective":"To ensure that EU financial assistance is targeted, balanced and in line with the priorities of the Enlargement Package and the country\u2019s own National Strategy for European Integration and Development, facilitating the preparation for EU membership through accelerated integration and strategic Reform Agenda.","ptb_euprojects_expected_resultss":"\u2022 The institutional, administrative, and technical capacity of Albanian institutions to plan, programme, prepare, and manage IPA assistance under direct and indirect management is strengthened, allowing for more effective and efficient use of EU funds in the context of a comprehensive partnership. There is improved quality, relevance, and coherence of IPA strategic and programming documents, including the Reform Agenda for Albania for implementation of the Growth Plan.\r\n\u2022 The performance of the Albanian appointed institutions is improved in terms of evidence-based monitoring and evaluation and results-based reporting, and effective communication of IPA actions and programmes. There is increased use of evidence-based decision-making, adoption of key performance indicators at the national level to measure and monitor performance in the use of IPA funds, and more timely and accurate reporting.\r\n\u2022 The internal control system and financial management of the structures and authorities managing IPA funds is strengthened, including through increased capacity and improved performance of the Audit Authorities and its cooperating bodies.\r\n\u2022 The responsibilities of the beneficiary on Transparency and Visibility set in the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement (FFPA) are effectively implemented.","ptb_euprojects_activities_":"COMPONENT 1.\r\nStrategic Planning and Programming Coaching GoA officials in charge of programming EU financial assistance:\r\nAssistance for the development of strategic and programming documents;\r\nSupport to operationalisation of reform priorities into programme proposals and \/ or design of targeted projects;\r\nAssistance on multi-country programmes, Cross Border Cooperation Programmes, Union Programmes and other financial tools;\r\nSupport sectoral and cross-sectoral policy dialogue among all stakeholders and donor coordination;\r\nSupport to self-assessment of alignment of national policies with EU policies.\r\n\r\nCOMPONENT 2.\r\nMonitoring, Evaluation and Reporting:\r\nAnalysis of programme-level monitoring, evaluation and reporting system on the use of EU assistance;\r\nSupport to NIPAC on Programme level monitoring and reporting;\r\nAssistance to preparation of IPA III evaluation plan;\r\nRecommendations on risk-based and sustainability monitoring methodologies and tools;\r\nAnalysis and recommendations on Management Information System;\r\n\r\nCOMPONENT 3.\r\nInternal Controls and Financial Management:\r\nAssistance to the NAO and NAO Support Office to strengthen the management and control system for IPA funds;\r\nAssistance to the NAO and NAO Support Office to strengthen the management and control system for IPA funds;\r\nAssistance to the Audit Authority to improve capacities in relation to IPA funds\r\nSupport to internal auditors in audit of EU funds;\r\nSupport to CFCU on delivery of IPA Annual and multi-Annual Operational Programmes\r\nAssistance to selected Beneficiaries to roll-out the Simplified Cost Options approach under IPA III grant schemes;\r\nAssistance to the Beneficiaries (all structures and authorities) on management of irregularities including fraud, financial corrections and addressing audit findings\r\nSupport to Accounting Body.\r\n\r\nCOMPONENT 4.\r\nTransparency, Communication and Visibility:\r\nSupport to preparation and implementation of Plan of visibility and communication activities on IPA III assistance to Albania;\r\nSupport to establish a single website portal on all EU Programmes in Albania\r\nDeveloping the Communication Strategy for SASPAC;\r\nPreparation of Communication Strategy for Growth Plan and Reform Agenda\r\nVisibility Activities.\r\n\r\nCOMPONENT 5.\r\nCapacity building:\r\nDevelopment of Training Plan for IPA Bodies;\r\nImplementation of training plan for IPA Bodies.","ptb_gallery_1":{"url":[""],"link":[""],"title":[""],"description":[""]},"ptb_file_2":{"url":[""],"title":[""]},"ptb_video_1":{"url":[""],"title":[""],"description":[""]}},"ptb_taxonomy":{"area_types":[{"term_id":90,"name":"National","slug":"national","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":90,"taxonomy":"area_types","description":"","parent":0,"count":96,"filter":"raw"}],"sectors":[{"term_id":1403,"name":"Other","slug":"other","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1403,"taxonomy":"sectors","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw"}]},"ptb_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euprojects.al\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/euprojects\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euprojects.al\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/euprojects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euprojects.al\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/euprojects"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euprojects.al\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}