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Steering Committee
The Steering Committee (SC) is responsible to the Supervisory Board (SVB) for overseeing the programme management and the achievement of the programme results. It normally meets twice a year. Additional meetings may be convened on ad hoc basis. The chairmanship of the SC rotates between the EEP countries, and so is the venue of the meetings. The Regional Coordination Unit serves both the SVB and SC. The SC may invite any other organisations or individuals to attend as observers.
The SC has the following mandate and functions:
- Approving the Programme's detailed work plans and related budgets as well as the bi-annual monitoring and budget reports
- Approving pilot projects for funding based on the selection criteria and technical evaluation and providing feed-back on how the selection and evaluation criteria as well as proposals could be further improved (clarifications, amendments)
- Analysing and evaluating the Annual Work plan and Budget on Programme level for the SVB approval
- Analysing and evaluating the Annual Reports on Programme level for the SVB approval
- Reviewing Annual Audit reports and follow up on action taken
- Agreeing on major operational or procedural changes on Programme regional and Project national level that may also have implications on the pilot projects
- Approving the Programme Implementation Manual (PIM) and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system of the programme and/or any other strategies that may be elaborated during the programme implementation
- Approving overall plan and ToRs on consultancies
The SC members are:
- One Representative and an Alternate Member nominated by the governments of partner countries.
- Representative from the MFA/Finland
- Representatives from Nordic Development Fund and other Donor Governments
- AIT, as an observing member without voting rights
- CTA as secretary to the SC meetings
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