1. www.ada.gv.at Austrian Development Agency (ADA) Erik Vorhausberger 06.03.2007

2. www.ada.gv.at ADA basic facts Legal form: non-profit limited liability company Owner: Republic of Austria Owner‘s representative: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Supervisory board (term of office: 4 years): 12 Members: FMA (6 incl. chairperson), Ministries of Finance, Economic Affairs, Social Affairs, Agriculture (each 1), Provincial Governors, staff representatives (each 1)

3. www.ada.gv.at Budget and Staff 152Total 79Country Offices 73Headquarters Staff (per end of year) 99,95 Mio. EURProgrammes & Projects 2006 Budget 161 84 77 100,3 Mio. EUR 2007* * forecast

4. www.ada.gv.at Sources of Funding – Austrian ODA 2005

5. www.ada.gv.at Managing Director Programmes & Projects International Countries & Regions Quality Assurance & Knowledge Management Coop. With NGOs & Humanitarian Aid Evaluation Development Education & Communication in Austria Finance & Legal Affairs Budgeting & Auditing Accounting Legal Affairs Statistics Administration Human Resources IT Coordination & Organisational Development Information & PR

6. www.ada.gv.at Legal basis - Development Cooperation Act Objectives & principles Status & role of development organisations Instruments Coherence of the Austrian development policy Legal basis for establishing ADA (amendment 2003)

7. www.ada.gv.at Strategic basis - Three-Year Programme Fundamentals of the Austrian Development Policy Description of core programmes Geographical priorities Sector priorities

8. www.ada.gv.at References. Strategic Guidelines ADA Business Plan ADA Annual Programme Development Cooperation Act 2002 ADC Regional Strategies Three-Year Programme of the Austrian Development Policy ADC strategic level ADC operational level Bilateral Programmes ADC Country- Strategies

9. www.ada.gv.at Organisational context Directorate General for Development Policy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Austrian Development Agency (ADA) – The operational Unit of the Austrian Development Cooperation

10. www.ada.gv.at Division of responsibilities MFA Overall-coordination of the Austrian public development cooperation Formulation of development cooperation strategies and policies Policy-dialogue in Austria and at international level ADA Implementing Austrian development cooperation strategies and programmes Management of bilateral development cooperation budget Policy dialogue in partner-countries

11. www.ada.gv.at Austria & the new EU Member States Agreement ADA - Slovak Republic: financing of trilateral projects, capacity building (Jan. 2006) Harmonisation and Alignment: ADC conference with the new EU Member States (Nov. 2005 Vienna) Seminar with Europ. Commission and new member states (European Developmt. Days, Nov. 2006, Brussels) ADA-Conference with new Member States: capacity building in raising public understanding of Int’l Development (January 2007) Plans for twinning arrangement with Hungarian MFA

12. www.ada.gv.at Cornerstones for trilateral partnership Finding common priorities (countries, sectors) Memorandum of Understanding Defining respective tasks & responsibilites (Management Plan) Joint Steering Committee Joint missions

13. www.ada.gv.at Organisations – phases of development © Larry E. Greiner

14. www.ada.gv.at Thank you!