PRIME MINISTRY SECRETARIAT GENERAL FOR EU AFFAIRS

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PRIME MINISTRY SECRETARIAT GENERAL FOR EU AFFAIRS
ABSORBING EU FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE THE CASE OF
TURKEY
Ahmet YÜCEL Deputy Secretary General October 19,
2009
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DIS Implementation in Turkey - I
Decentralised Implementation System - DIS, in
Turkey established with a Prime Ministry Circular
dated 18 July 2001 which also defined the roles
and responsibilities among institutions within
DIS. According to this, there are four main
actors - National Aid Coordinator (NAC) -
National Authorizing Officer (NAO) and National
Fund (NF) - Central Finance and Contracts Unit
(CFCU)
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DIS Implementation in Turkey - II
To ensure efficient DIS implementation, strategy
of the Turkish Govenment was EU financial
assistance should be employed transparently and
efficiently with a strong coordination among all
stakeholders Major step was to ensure a strong
coordination called Financial Cooperation
Committee including main institutions. The
Committee consists of -Ministry of
Finance -Ministry of Foreign Affairs -Undersecre
tariat of Treasury -Undersecretariat of State
Planning Organisation -Secretariat General for
the EU Affairs
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Major Challenges of DIS Implementation

• Lack of sufficient capacity at Implementing
  Agency (CFCU)
• Inadequate number of Staff
• Salary (differentiated remuneration system among
  staff-same task different remunerations)
• Not enough supervision of technical documents and
  SPOs organisations
• Lack of sufficient capacity at beneficiary
  institutions
• Poor quality of technical documents (PFs, TOR, TS
  etc.)
• Late submission of project documents for timely
  programming/tendering
• Insufficient implementation and monitoring
  capacity
• Poor understanding of DIS roles and
  responsibilities
• Experienced deficiencies in implementation
• Late tendering
• Low contracting rate
• Shortened durations for implementation of
  projects loss of impact

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DIS Implementation in Figures
Lack of effectiveness in the early years was
turned into progress in the absorption capacity
when challenges/shortcomings of DIS faced.
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From Pre-Accession Funds to IPA What have been
changed?

• Transition from pre-accession fund to IPA
  required comprehensive change in DIS structure
  which needs a long period for administrative
  preperation

• Legislative Framework (Framework and financing
  agreements)
• Institutional Framework (DIS and IPA structures,
  operating structures, co-ordination)
• Administrative Capacity (staffing, training)
• Programming (Development plans, investment
  programmes, operational programmes, project
  pipeline)
• Monitoring and Evaluation (MIS)
• Financial Management and Control (Setting up
  implementation system and definition of
  responsibilities)

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From Pre-Accession Funds to IPA What have been
changed?

• It is more flexible in terms of reallocation of
  budgets
• Multi Annual Programming
• Conferral of Management
• More Challenging

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Efficiency in IPA

• Political Support
• Setting up structures timely
• Early accreditation
• Ovnership
• Technical supports to the actors
• Strategic approach in the operation programmes
• Effective coordination mechanism
• Training strategy
• Ensuring sustainability of the staff
• Public awareness

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Factors Absorbing IPA In General

• Strengthened institutional and administrative
  capacity
• Long-term and coherent planning and programming
• Mature project pipeline in every sector
• Smooth running implementation as possible
• Good management
• Well organized coordination between the
  institutions involved
• Well established monitoring and evaluation system

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