[{"bbox": [129, 163, 781, 194], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 4 IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS"}, {"bbox": [129, 228, 425, 258], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.1 Financing Agreement"}, {"bbox": [141, 275, 1134, 324], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to implement this Action, it is envisaged to conclude a financing agreement with the Republic of Guinea-Bissau."}, {"bbox": [129, 369, 553, 398], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.2 Indicative Implementation Period"}, {"bbox": [141, 415, 1133, 494], "category": "Text", "text": "The indicative operational implementation period of this action, during which the activities described in section 3 will be carried out and the corresponding contracts and agreements implemented, is 60 months from the date of entry into force of the financing agreement."}, {"bbox": [141, 495, 1133, 548], "category": "Text", "text": "Extensions of the implementation period may be agreed by the Commission's responsible authorising officer by amending this Financing Decision and the relevant contracts and agreements."}, {"bbox": [129, 588, 741, 618], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Implementation of the Budget Support Component"}, {"bbox": [129, 633, 267, 659], "category": "Text", "text": "*Not applicable*"}, {"bbox": [129, 675, 483, 704], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [141, 733, 1133, 811], "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 measures¹⁵."}, {"bbox": [129, 839, 469, 865], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.1 Direct Management (Grants)"}, {"bbox": [141, 882, 399, 908], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [141, 909, 873, 934], "category": "Text", "text": "The programme activities to implement through a direct grant are the following:"}, {"bbox": [141, 935, 1133, 987], "category": "Text", "text": "- Activities related to output 1.2: Enhanced capacity and infrastructure of Education Management Information System (EMIS/SIGE), for education data collection, analysis, reporting and for informing decisions"}, {"bbox": [141, 988, 1133, 1067], "category": "Text", "text": "- Activities related to output 1.3: Increased MEN's capacity to develop and implement internal and interministerial communication, management methods, and informed decision-making process, based on learning from improved SIGE."}, {"bbox": [141, 1095, 461, 1121], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(b) Justification of a direct grant**"}, {"bbox": [141, 1121, 1133, 1174], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the responsibility of the Commission's authorising officer responsible, the grant may be awarded without a call for proposals to NGO Fé e Cooperação (FEC), selected using the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [141, 1186, 1133, 1371], "category": "Text", "text": "- the operational and financial capacity of the organisation, in particular its knowledge of the country's challenging environment, its vast experience in education and statistics in particular; deep trust from the national and local government; the quality of the staff it can mobilise and the coherence and synergies/capitalisation of experiences with phase I of the current action (Firkidja di Skola and PESIDE), that FEC has been successfully implementing since 2015, and which form the basis of the design of the present Action, having created an Education Management and Information System (EMIS) and also strengthened statistical literacy and decision-making through an education data chain."}, {"bbox": [141, 1384, 1133, 1490], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the responsibility of the Commission's authorising officer responsible, the recourse to an award of a grant without a call for proposals is justified because the action has specific characteristics requiring a specific type of beneficiary for its technical competence and specialisation with regard to Article 195 (f) FR, Article 27(2) NDICI-Global Europe Regulation."}, {"bbox": [129, 1579, 1142, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁵ 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": [1119, 1655, 1143, 1677], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "24"}]