Macedonia - IPA Training Facility

Lot:7 - Governance and Home Affairs - EuropeAid FWC Beneficiaries 127054

A team leader will be responsible for the overall management, representation co-ordination with the EU and other international bodies as well as reporting. The co-ordination of activity development in the different components of the activity is important. The team leader is responsible for an appropriate management of resources. Next to the team leader, who will be responsible for the overall support with a main focus on the establishment of the facility, additional expertise will be engaged, to build capacities in inter alia the three areas of curriculum development providing clear guidelines for Operational Management of the different institutions, Training of Trainers, Legal and contractual matters; Financial Management; Management Information System, including Quality Control, Monitoring and Evaluation; general EU policies and procedures, as well as cross-cutting issues.

An IPA training facility will be established to ensure that all relevant staff in the various ministries and other public bodies directly working with IPA have sufficient knowledge to develop, to prepare, to implement, to supervise and monitor projects and to ensure appropriate analysis and reporting on the projects.



Operating structures for the relevant IPA components will thus be supported in order to ensure that the programmes are managed and implemented in conformity with the principle of sound financial management and effective control.



IPA Training Facility is to be established by the Government, under an adequate legislative framework, with an overall control on management e.g. by appointing members of Management Board.



There will be three main activities:



1. Establishment of the IPA Training Facility organisational establishment, internal rules and regulations, staffing, budgeting and other organisational management roles.



2. Curriculum development for the IPA Training Facility. These will include:

i. Curriculum 1: Principles and basic regulations of the European Union, including Explanation of the IPA regulation, IPA Implementing Guidelines, IPA applications and other relevant documents; General Information on Instrument for Pre-accession IPA; General Information on Preparation for Structural and Cohesion Funds

ii. Curriculum 2: Preparation of the Multi annual programmes, of CBC Programmes, of the Strategic Coherence Framework and the Operational Programmes.

iii. Curriculum 3: Project preparation under IPA application, drafting of Project Fiches under IPA, contracting, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in the field ofESC.



3. Training of IPA Facility trainers TOT

In order to ensure sustainability of the project, a core team of local experts full-time employed in the Facility shall be trained to deliver trainings to targeted groups of civil servants on central and municipal level as well as to directly support the IPA process.



In due time, the IPA Training facility will deliver presentations and trainings to other potential IPA beneficiaries business sector, NGOs and citizens individual agricultural producers.

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY SELECTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED