[{"bbox": [144, 108, 627, 135], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.7 Organisational set-up and responsibilities"}, {"bbox": [144, 146, 1087, 439], "category": "Text", "text": "A Project Steering Committee (PSC) will be set up for the programme. The PSC will be composed of the main stakeholders and counterparts of the programme and meet at least bi-annually or more often if needed. The chair of the PSC will be the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and members will include the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and Development (the National Authorising Officer Support Unit), the Ministry of Labour, Skills and Innovation (responsible for TEVET), the Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, the Ministry of Local Government, the Education Infrastructure Management Unit (EIMU), the Department of WASH under Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Irrigation Development, Local Government representative(s), representatives (2) of CSOs and of the grant holders (in rotation) as well as the EU Delegation. The PSC will be responsible for the strategic oversight of implementation, policy guidance and monitoring of the action."}, {"bbox": [144, 450, 1087, 609], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition to the PSC and to ensure better coordination and collaboration among the various stakeholders involved in the implementation of the components under direct and indirect management, technical coordination meetings will be held regularly. The technical coordination group will comprise representatives of the relevant directorates from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology involved in the implementation of ISEM II, the NAO Support Unit, the EU Delegation, the Technical Assistance Team (TAT), and grant holders."}, {"bbox": [144, 622, 1087, 836], "category": "Text", "text": "A Technical Assistance Team (TAT) will be recruited to assist the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology with the implementation of activities foreseen in direct management and indirect management with the partner country under SOs 2 and 3, results 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1 and 3.2. The TAT will also provide secretarial services for the PSC. In addition to the implementation of tasks for the results under its responsibility, the TAT may support the NAO and the EU Delegation to ensure coherence between the activities. The Ministry should ensure that the necessary human resources are in place prior to this programme in order to assume ownership of the programme and that the planned capacity building exercises can be implemented."}, {"bbox": [144, 847, 1087, 927], "category": "Text", "text": "As part of its prerogative of budget implementation and to safeguard the financial interests of the Union, the Commission may participate in the above governance structures set up for governing the implementation of the action."}, {"bbox": [144, 939, 1087, 1019], "category": "Text", "text": "Gender equality, human rights and rights-based approach expertise will be ensured during the implementation of the action as much as possible. They will also be integrated in relevant capacity building activities and documents (i.e. ToRs, etc) as minimum requirements of expertise."}, {"bbox": [144, 1044, 723, 1071], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.8 Performance and Results monitoring and reporting"}, {"bbox": [144, 1083, 1087, 1401], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU Delegation will maintain a key role in monitoring and overview of the action and in following up on reporting by the implementing partners. The monitoring, review and evaluation of sector performance in regard to the Secondary Education sub-sector in Malawi is mainly carried out by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology through the EMIS, which provides annual education statistics. However, this is compromised by lack of reliable and timely data collection for the sub-sector, which is one of the shortcomings and challenges the EQUALS intervention will address through upgrading of ICT enabled systems to support data management at EMIS, digitisation of school level data collection and putting in place a Secondary Teacher Management Information System (STMIS). As such, this action will benefit from better results monitoring once these systems are operationalised. In addition, performance monitoring in line with the logical framework matrix will be carried out both by EU and all other actors. The EU will also ensure that data collected through the in-house monitoring will feed into the final evaluation of the programme."}, {"bbox": [144, 1414, 1087, 1600], "category": "Text", "text": "Any monitoring and evaluation will be gender-sensitive, assess gender equality results and implementation of rights-based approach working method principles (participation, non-discrimination, accountability and transparency) in terms of implementation of the project and project outcomes. Monitoring and evaluation will be based on indicators that are disaggregated by a minimum sex and age when applicable. In order to monitor development and inequalities data/indicators will be disaggregated even further including disability, location urban/rural, etc, when applicable. Key stakeholders will be involved in the monitoring process."}, {"bbox": [605, 1676, 627, 1696], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "19"}]