[{"bbox": [87, 134, 1108, 184], "category": "Text", "text": "- Improved quality of teaching and learning to master digital and media literacy as well as green skills in school education."}, {"bbox": [85, 199, 1147, 359], "category": "Text", "text": "Greater efforts will be made to engage in the policy dialogue and reinforce the need to develop a more coherent and effective system. Given that the other Development Partners have less engagement in the policy dialogue and are concentrated on downstream work such as curricula development, teacher training and procurement, the strategic issues of education quality and inclusiveness will be mostly supported by the EU, which will also promote quality of teacher training through certification and better learning outcomes to be demonstrated by the students at the end of the proposed Action."}, {"bbox": [83, 409, 243, 435], "category": "Text", "text": "c) Modifications."}, {"bbox": [83, 448, 1146, 555], "category": "Text", "text": "The chosen performance indicators and targets to be used for the disbursement of variable tranches will apply for the duration of the action. However, in duly justified cases, the partner country and the Commission may agree on changes to indicators or on upward/downward revisions of targets. Such changes shall be authorised in writing ex-ante, at the latest at the beginning of the period under review applicable to the indicators and targets."}, {"bbox": [83, 567, 1146, 754], "category": "Text", "text": "In exceptional and/or duly justified cases, for instance where unexpected events, external shocks or changing circumstances have made the indicator or the target irrelevant and could not be anticipated, a variable tranche indicator may be waived. In these cases, the related amount could either be reallocated to the other indicators of the variable tranche the same year or be transferred to the next variable tranche the following year (in accordance with the original weighting of the indicators). It could also be decided to re-assess an indicator the following year against the original target, if there was a positive trend and the authorities did not reach the target because of factors beyond their control. The use of this provision shall be requested by the partner country and approved in writing by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [83, 765, 294, 790], "category": "Text", "text": "d) Fundamental values"}, {"bbox": [83, 792, 1145, 846], "category": "Text", "text": "In case of a significant deterioration of fundamental values, budget support disbursements may be suspended, reduced or cancelled, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the financing agreement."}, {"bbox": [131, 881, 457, 911], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.3. Budget Support Details"}, {"bbox": [83, 919, 1145, 1000], "category": "Text", "text": "Budget support is provided as direct untargeted budget support to the national treasury. The crediting of the euro transfers disbursed into Kyrgyz Som will be undertaken at the appropriate exchange rates in line with the relevant provisions of the financing agreement."}, {"bbox": [109, 1044, 449, 1075], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4. Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [83, 1099, 1146, 1179], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission will ensure that the EU appropriate rules and procedures for providing financing to third parties are respected, including review procedures, where appropriate, and compliance of the action with EU restrictive measures¹⁸."}, {"bbox": [131, 1202, 511, 1232], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.1. Direct Management (Grants)"}, {"bbox": [83, 1240, 371, 1268], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Grants: (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [83, 1268, 342, 1295], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [83, 1305, 1146, 1493], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed **Twinning modality** implemented through grants will contribute to the institution building based on partnership cooperation between the targeted public administration and accepted mandated bodies of Member States with the purpose of achieving mainly **specific objective 1 'More inclusive and equitable quality education'**. This objective is linked to the policy dialogue, planned and agreed reform process in the beneficiary country and capacity building of beneficiary administration enabling to put in place an effective mechanism to promote inclusive and equitable quality education. Secondment of a full-time Member State expert (Resident Twinning Adviser – RTA) and short-term expertise to a Beneficiary administration will enable to share best practice and know-how, to strengthen"}, {"bbox": [71, 1586, 1158, 1662], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁸ www.sanctionsmap.eu. Please note that the sanctions map is an IT tool for identifying the sanctions regimes. The source of the sanctions stems from legal acts published in the Official Journal (OJ). In case of discrepancy between the published legal acts and the updates on the website it is the OJ version that prevails."}, {"bbox": [1040, 1661, 1158, 1686], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 25 of 30"}]