Regional%20Development%20Agency%20experiences%20in%20England%20and%20Romania

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Regional Development Agency experiences
inEngland and Romania

Richard HardingUK Twinning advisor in EU
Structural Instruments - Romania
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The English regions
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Romanias Development Regions
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English RDAs

• Cross sectoral management Boards
• Nationally funded Single Pot
• Supported by regional-level Government Offices
• Strategy development
• Own project implementation - with partners
• Tasking frameworks and targets, but flexibility
• Assessments NAO and stakeholders improvement
  plans
• National network growing influence

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Romanian RDAs

• Green Paper recommendations not fully enacted
• Report to local authorities (RDBs), but deliver
  national programmes
• No own projects
• Tensions with national Ministry RDP/NDP and
  implementation
• Fragile financial position remedied in part
• Mixed evaluation findings
• No functioning national network

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Future perspectives

• English RDAs to manage EU programmes
• Romanian RDAs to be IBs for ROP 2007-2013 and
  cross border programmes
• Crucial issue of regional coordination in Romania
  RDA role?

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Romania Operational Programmes 2007-2013

   
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Future perspectives

• English RDAs to manage EU programmes
• Romanian RDAs to be IBs for ROP 2007-2013 and
  cross border programmes
• Crucial issue of regional coordination in Romania
  RDA role?

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Regionalisation?

• Not in Romanian Constitution
• Englands referendum outcome

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Ingredients for success

• Partnership-based management Boards
• Clear reporting lines to policy funder, not
  beneficiary
• Partnership planning process with honest broker
  role
• Merging of different funding streams for regional
  objectives
• Adequate and predictable finance staff
  development
• Evaluation culture public face
• Easy to say , difficult to do