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

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DE

NM

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K

NE

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ER

LA

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RO

MA

NIA

AU

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RIA

ITA

LY

LIT

HU

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IA

SP

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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 PatuzzoElarg-twinning@ec.europa.eu