[{"bbox": [183, 152, 694, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### 4.7. Organisational Set-up and Responsibilities"}, {"bbox": [156, 201, 1075, 442], "category": "Text", "text": "The programme will have four separate management teams for the Twinning, Technical Assistance, Grant with MoE and Grant for productive use. To ensure proper coordination between the four teams, an EU Energy Steering Committee (ESG) will be established and meet on a 6 monthly basis. The group will be composed of one representative from the MoE, one from MERA, one from PML, one from EGENCO, one from ESCOM, the Twinning Resident Advisor, one from the technical assistance consultant team, one from the Malawi Renewable Energy Association (private sector), plus one representative from the EU Delegation as an observer. Besides general coordination, overseeing and guidance, the ESG may request support for project development through necessary technical studies. If required the ESG could hold ad hoc meetings."}, {"bbox": [156, 446, 1075, 553], "category": "Text", "text": "Furthermore to ensure proper implementation and to reinforce activities, coordination and contract management, an Energy Project Coordination Unit (EPCU) composed by one representative from the MoE, the Twinning Resident Advisor, one from the Technical Assistance consultant, one from the Productive Use project and one from the EU Delegation will meet on a bi-monthly basis."}, {"bbox": [156, 558, 1075, 640], "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": [161, 737, 708, 770], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [147, 800, 479, 832], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 5.1. Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [156, 849, 1075, 1036], "category": "Text", "text": "The day-to-day technical and financial monitoring of the implementation of this action will be a continuous process, and part of the implementing partner's responsibilities. To this aim, the implementing partner shall establish a permanent internal, technical and financial monitoring system for the action and elaborate regular progress reports (not less than annual) and final reports. Every report shall provide an accurate account of implementation of the action, difficulties encountered, changes introduced, as well as the degree of achievement of its results (Outputs and direct Outcomes) as measured by corresponding indicators, using as reference the logframe matrix."}, {"bbox": [156, 1040, 1075, 1146], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission may undertake additional project monitoring visits both through its own staff and through independent consultants recruited directly by the Commission for independent monitoring reviews (or recruited by the responsible agent contracted by the Commission for implementing such reviews)."}, {"bbox": [156, 1153, 806, 1181], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring:"}, {"bbox": [156, 1186, 1075, 1320], "category": "Text", "text": "Availability of relevant public statistics will be researched by the implementers for use as baseline and subsequently to measure progress at the end of the Action. Where such public data is not available the implementers will launch specific surveys at start and end of the Action to measure progress. The cost associated to these possible surveys will be integrated in the relevant contracts. A joint monitoring system will be agreed for the productive use project."}, {"bbox": [156, 1325, 1075, 1405], "category": "Text", "text": "Gender equality and the human rights-based approach will be mainstreamed into the monitoring and evaluation of the project and indicators will be sex-disaggregated and disaggregated by other relevant aspects whenever possible (eg. age, disability)."}, {"bbox": [147, 1448, 313, 1476], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 5.2. Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [156, 1491, 1075, 1545], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the importance of the action, a final evaluation will be carried out for component Outputs 1 and 2 of this action via independent consultants contracted by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [966, 1660, 1082, 1686], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 23 of 25"}]