[{"bbox": [139, 151, 1133, 312], "category": "Text", "text": "government, and respect aid effectiveness principles. This joint EU/Luxembourg/Switzerland initiative is in full relevance with the EJPS approach. Besides given the respective specificities of EU and Luxembourg/Switzerland approaches to Education support (institutional vs. grass-root), this joint initiative will allow a better complementarity and coordination between central policy and planning level and the grass-root level of the TVET centres, reinforcing the provinces where LuxDev/SDC have already been active and extending to other provinces previously selected with the MoES."}, {"bbox": [139, 323, 1133, 404], "category": "Text", "text": "If negotiations with the above-mentioned entities fail, that part of this action may be implemented in indirect management with SDC (if initiated pillar assessment process concludes positively), GIZ or the World Bank. The implementation by this alternative entities would be justified because of the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [139, 414, 1133, 469], "category": "Text", "text": "On i) the alternative entities have implemented or are in the process of implementing at the grass-root level technical assistance and capacity building in TVET;"}, {"bbox": [139, 480, 1133, 533], "category": "Text", "text": "On ii) the alternative entities possess knowledge of public and private TVET main actors and related services in Lao PDR;"}, {"bbox": [139, 545, 1133, 598], "category": "Text", "text": "On iii) their actions aim at linking TVET training and skills demand for self employment and from the labour market."}, {"bbox": [139, 611, 1133, 771], "category": "Text", "text": "Based on this, any of these alternative entities would provide a length of experience in the TVET sub-sector, operational capacity on the ground to follow-up the action and engage in policy discussions, a track-record in delivering effective support and strong monitoring and reporting on project achievements, and strong relationship with MOES. In case the envisaged entity and the replacement entities mentioned above would need to be replaced, the Commission's services may select another replacement entity using the same criteria. If the entity is replaced, the decision to replace it needs to be justified."}, {"bbox": [128, 823, 857, 855], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.5. Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [139, 882, 1133, 963], "category": "Text", "text": "The geographical eligibility in terms of place of establishment for participating in procurement and grant award procedures and in terms of origin of supplies purchased as established in the basic act and set out in the relevant contractual documents shall apply, subject to the following provisions."}, {"bbox": [139, 974, 1133, 1081], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission's authorising officer responsible may extend the geographical eligibility on the basis of urgency or of unavailability of services in the markets of the countries or territories concerned, or in other duly substantiated cases where application of the eligibility rules would make the realisation of this action impossible or exceedingly difficult (Article 28(10) NDICI-Global Europe Regulation)."}, {"bbox": [128, 1141, 384, 1173], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.6 Indicative Budget"}, {"bbox": [128, 1184, 1054, 1536], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Indicative Budget components</td><td>EU contribution (amount in EUR)</td><td>Third-party contribution (amount in EUR)</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Budget support - cf. section 4.3</td><td>30 000 000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Complementary Support - cf. section 4.4</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Indirect management with Lux Dev - cf. section 4.4.1</td><td>7 000 000</td><td>17 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Evaluation - cf. section 5.2</td><td rowspan=\"2\">May be covered by another Decision</td><td rowspan=\"2\"></td></tr><tr><td>Audit - cf. section 5.3</td></tr><tr><td>Totals</td><td>37 000 000</td><td>17 000 000</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1141, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 32 of 35"}]