Austrian Development Agency (ADA) Erik Vorhausberger
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)
Budget and Staff 152Total 79Country Offices 73Headquarters Staff (per end of year) 99,95 Mio. EURProgrammes & Projects 2006 Budget ,3 Mio. EUR 2007* * forecast
Sources of Funding – Austrian ODA 2005
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
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)
Strategic basis - Three-Year Programme Fundamentals of the Austrian Development Policy Description of core programmes Geographical priorities Sector priorities
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
Organisational context Directorate General for Development Policy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Austrian Development Agency (ADA) – The operational Unit of the Austrian Development Cooperation
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
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 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
Cornerstones for trilateral partnership Finding common priorities (countries, sectors) Memorandum of Understanding Defining respective tasks & responsibilites (Management Plan) Joint Steering Committee Joint missions
Organisations – phases of development © Larry E. Greiner
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