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Quantification of the Framework Agreement
2001
Macedonia

Name of client:Ministry of Finance
Origin of funding:Royal Netherlands Embassy to Macedonia
Project value:€ 40,000

Services provided:  
   Project management
   Fiscal and legal review of proposals
   Policy advice to ministries and government agencies
   Technical expertise on costing of proposals
   Development of awareness and coordination between central and local government bodies
   Workshop with key government officials
   Liaison with international donors
 

Description of project
A high-level policy advice project focused on the analysis and preliminary costing of proposals for decentralisation, equitable representation and the development of local self-government as stipulated by the Framework Agreement (FA) agreed by the Macedonian government and ethnic Albanians on 13th August 2001.
Key activities were:  
  analysing in detail the fiscal impact of the implementation of the FA, with differentiation of
  one-time and recurrent costs, in a multiple-year calculation
  reviewing the opinions of key government and civil society stakeholders
  advising on the various draft laws concerning the development of local self-government
  making recommendations on the decentralisation of functions, development of
  accountabilities and appropriate financial arrangements, with due attention for the needs
  and the costs of implementation at the the municipal level
  identifying the number of staff, training requirements, costs and procedures needed to reach
  a desired level of equitable representation throughout the government
  consulting with other international actors and reviewing their work
  holding a workshop for officials from the Ministry of Local Self-Government and Ministry
  of Finance.
 
 
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