Enabling environment for partnerships

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Enabling environment for partnerships Czech
Republic

• Zdenek Foltyn,
• Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs,
• ESF Management Department
• ESF Exchange Event
• 18th January 2008
• Malta

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Levels of Partnerships

• Programme level
• required by the EU legislation,
• well established in the Czech Republic
• relevant stakeholders involved in the preparation
  of the OPs, members of the Monitoring
  Committee(s), have access to ESF resources
• Project level
• encouraged by the MAs but still a substantial
  space for improvement in the Czech Republic

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Partnerships experience 2004-06

• Considerable drawbacks in the legislation
  partnership was not defined in the relevant
  national legislation, act on public procurement
  applied to the partners
• The issue partner or supplier?
• Major impact especially on EQUAL project, based
  on international partnerships
• Implementation of projects with partnership was
  endangered

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Partnerships experience 2004-06

• The way out
• Amendment of the Act on budgetary rules (no.
  218/2000) partnership still not defined but
  though can be legally supported
• Patterns of contract between project promoters
  and partners published on the web, including
  typical examples of partners and suppliers in the
  ESF projects

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Partnerships 2007-13

• Partnership is encouraged and supported
• Must be described in the project application and
  will be assessed (to exclude projects with
  hidden suppliers, however there are no extra
  points for partnership)
• Clear description of added value of the
  partnership is required in the application

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Partnerships 2007-13

• In some kinds of projects limited to non
  financial partnerships (individual project based
  on public procurement)
• If financial partnership is allowed, a contract
  is to be signed (project promoter with each
  partner)
• The partner has to fulfil the same eligibility
  criteria as the project promoter itself, but only
  the project promoter can be the recipient of the
  grant (one institution)

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Partnerships 2007-13

• Experience from 2004-06 high added value of non
  financial partnerships (different levels of state
  administration, NGOs with state administration)
• ESF projects improve capacity of the institutions
  involved
• Partnership in ESF projects helps to build the
  trust among stakeholders involved
• Long-term objective to mainstream ESF type
  partnerships into national policies

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• Thank you for your attention!
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• zdenek.foltyn_at_mpsv.cz
• ESF Management Department
• Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the
  Czech Republic