1. Embedding Governance & Participation in the European Structural Funds
London Voluntary Sector
Training Consortium
Embedding Governance & Participation in the European Structural Funds
~ Ray Phillips, LVSTC Director
EAPN Seminar: and Beyond: the legacy we want!
Brussels, May 2009

2. Governance, Participation & The Funds
“.. More and better partnerships are needed to strengthen the participation and institutional capacity of local and regional authorities, the social partners and NGOs ..
Stakeholders need to be involved in the setting and the implementation of objectives ..
Training is needed to reduce staff turnover and achieve the standards required to manage substantially increased amounts of funding in the period”
~ Growing Regions, Growing Europe – Fourth report on economic and social cohesion (Provisional Version) : EUROPEAN COMMISSION, May 2007

3. Governance, Participation & The Funds
2010 Challenge to The Funds
Expressing the partnership principle
Responding to active inclusion
Reinventing trans-nationality
Undertaking a mid-Programme review
Preparing for

4. Governance, Participation & The Funds
Partnership Principle
“Article 11 ~ framework of close co-operation”
competent public authorities
economic and social partners
any other appropriate body representing civil society, environmental partners, non-governmental organisations and bodies responsible for promoting equality between men and women.

5. Governance, Participation & The Funds
Active Inclusion
“The Commission will encourage use of the provisions of the new ESF regulation to support active inclusion measures, namely:
a) Developing and testing integrated pathways to active social and economic inclusion
b) Mainstreaming innovative integration approaches
c) Disseminating and transferring good practice in promoting social inclusion across all Member States”
Modernising Social Protection for greater Social Justice & Economic Cohesion
EC COMMUNICATION, 620 Final, 2007

6. Governance, Participation & The Funds
Trans-nationality
post~EQUAL landscape
cross-national partnerships
overcoming national differences
building on good practice
appropriate economies of scale
active inclusion

7. Governance, Participation & The Funds
Mid-Programme Review
systemic NOT cyclical response to the economic crisis
indicators for those most disadvantaged in the labour market
social inclusion as an over-arching objective + cross-cutting theme
significant allocation to social inclusion
targeting disadvantaged groups
ensuring local reach via grass-roots/street-level organisations

8. Governance, Participation & The Funds
Empowering the Third Sector
“The aim of technical assistance is to enhance the quality and speed up the coherence of action by the Funds and to ensure that the best and most effective use is made of it. It is a flexible tool intended to benefit all the partners at the different stages in the implementation of structural assistance.”
Structural policies ~ Technical assistance granted under the Community Structural Funds:
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, November 1994

9. Governance, Participation & The Funds
(Pan-EU) Technical Assistance
~ Article 45
project preparation and appraisal
case studies and profiles
evaluations ~ poverty-proofing
partnership building ~ delivery & strategic
information dissemination
computerised systems ~ data-collection
exchange

10. Governance, Participation & The Funds
New Programme
future of cohesion policy for EU of 27+ working together
response to global crisis ~ public, private & third sectors
convivial tool for combating exclusion ~ vox populi
rebalancing in favour of social + regional
 ~ partnership, targeting, transparency, apt indicators, monitoring, evaluation
space for social innovation by street-level/grass-roots NGOs
EC to exercise authority to ensure compliance via innovative use of pan-EU Technical Assistance in hands of NGOs

11. Thank you!
~ Ray Phillips
Tel: (0044)