Tacis IBPP Tacis IBPP

IInstitution BBuilding PPartnership PProgramme

Support to Civil Society and Local Initiatives

EuropeAid Co-operation OfficeEuropeAid Co-operation Office

BrusselsBrussels

The programme within TacisThe programme within Tacis

It belongs to the group of small projects

Budget allocations part of National Action Programmes

BackgroundBackground

about 600 organisations and authorities have been involved through partnerships many more through networking activities

Tacis Lien Programme Tacis City Twinning Programme

« Think globally, act locally ! » (1992UN conference, Rio de Janeiro)

General ConditionsGeneral Conditions

Partnerships :

NGOs Not-for-profit professional

organisations Local and regional authorities

General ConditionsGeneral Conditions

Nature of activity :

Not-for-profit making Concrete objective to be

implemented in Tacis country Joint implementation Reinforcement of the Tacis

partner organisation/authority Sustainability of results

General ConditionsGeneral Conditions

Applications :

Annual Call for Proposals

Period between deadline for submissions and contracting +/- 6 months

Topics that could beTopics that could be supported supported

Public administration Reform Economic Development Social Issues Urban Management Environmental Issues

Specific ConditionsSpecific Conditions

80 % or max. € 200.000

min. € 100 000

max. € 200 000

EC Co-financing :

Specific ConditionsSpecific Conditions

Project duration : 18-24 months At least 1 EU or Phare and 1 Tacis

partner Any partner can be applicant Other partners possible Implementation only 1 Tacis country

Project Implementation :

Eligible ActivitiesEligible Activities

On-site training Training in EU country Work placements, study visits

Seminars, workshops, conferences Publications Awareness raising campaigns Purchase of equipment essential for

project implementation

A mixture of :

Transfer of know-how

Eligible CostsEligible Costs

Staff costs Travel costs Living expenses

Services such as rent of office (corresponding to market rates)

Purchase of equipment necessary for project implementation

Costs of consumables and supplies

...

Eligible CostsEligible Costs

Subcontracting of specific, limited parts

Dissemination of information Evaluation, audit Translation

...7 % of the total amount of

eligible direct costs are eligible as indirect costs

(overheads = lump sum)

Budget allocationsBudget allocationsCall for Proposal 2003Call for Proposal 2003

The next Call for Proposal, which will most likely be published towards the end of the year 2003, will cover the following countries : Russia

Ukraine

Moldova

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tadjikistan

Uzbekistan

The exact budget allocations are being decided at the moment. However they should remain stable.

StatisticsStatistics

IBPP 2001 Call for Proposals (The allocations from the budgets 2000 and 2001 were merged in this Call for Proposals.)

A total of 267 applications were submitted out of which 74 were

selected for funding

StatisticsStatistics

Country Budget 2000, M€ Budget 2001, M€

Belarus 2.2 -

Kazakhstan - 0.2

Kyrgyzstan - 0.4

Moldova - 0.7Mongolia 0.5 -Russia 7.0 2.0Ukraine 0.5 1.5

Table 1 : Funds available

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Table 2 : Submitted/selected proposals per Tacis Country

Country Submitted Ineligible Selected Selected outof submitted

Belarus 32 6 12 37 %

Kazakhstan 13 5 1 8 %

Kyrgyzstan 7 0 2 28 %

Moldova 25 3 4 16 %

Mongolia 10 2 3 30 %

Russia 120 16 41 34 %

Ukraine 46 10 11 23 %

Other/latearrivals

14 - 0 -

TOTAL 267 42 74 -

StatisticsStatistics

Table 3 : Submitted/Selected proposals per EU country

Country Submitted Ineligible Selected Selected out ofsubmitted

Austria 12 2 7 58 %Belgium 11 2 1 9 %Denmark 15 3 5 33 %Finland 15 2 8 53 %France 28 3 6 21 %Germany 46 9 14 30 %Greece 12 1 0 0 %Ireland 6 2 2 33 %Italy 36 6 6 17 %Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 %Netherlands 26 4 8 31 %Portugal 2 0 0 0 %Spain 10 1 0 0 %Sweden 14 1 2 14 %UnitedKingdom

43 6 18 41 %

TOTAL 276* 42 77* -

* Some proposals include more than one Eu partner. Therefore the total number is higher than the total amounts of submitted and selected proposals. The selected proposals include one UK-Dutch-Ukrainian project and one Finnish-Irish-Russian one.

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Table 4 : Submitted proposals per partnership category

Category Submitted

Selected Selectedout ofsubmitted

Non-governmental organisations(NGOs)

151 49 32 %

Local and Regional Authorities 54 15 28 %

Not-for-profit professionalorganisations

59 10 17 %

Not defined/ Ineligible partnership 3 0 -

TOTAL 267 74 -

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Table 5 : Submitted proposals per area of activity

Area of Activity Submitted

Selected Selectedout of

submittedPublic Administration ReformIssues

14 4 29 %

Economic Development Issues 79 11 14 %

Social Issues 137 50 36 %

Urban Management Issues 14 4 29 %

Environmental Issues 11 5 45 %Other/ late arrivals 12 0 -

TOTAL 267 74 -

Further InformationFurther Information

IBPP WEBSITE :

Http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/ibpp/index_en.htm

Partner Search Facility

Publication of the Call for Proposals (including FAQs and announcement of information afternoon) :

Http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl

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