[{"bbox": [85, 153, 442, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [96, 211, 1134, 289], "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 measures³."}, {"bbox": [85, 349, 439, 378], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.1 Direct Management (Grants)"}, {"bbox": [96, 394, 168, 418], "category": "Text", "text": "Grants:"}, {"bbox": [96, 420, 340, 446], "category": "Text", "text": "(a) Purpose of the grant(s)"}, {"bbox": [96, 447, 1134, 500], "category": "Text", "text": "The EUD might select Twinning or TAIEX grants to implement some of the peer to peer expertise exchanges on matters relevant to the EU – Namibia Partnership."}, {"bbox": [96, 511, 382, 539], "category": "Text", "text": "(b) Type of applicants targeted"}, {"bbox": [96, 550, 746, 578], "category": "Text", "text": "The applicants should be EU Member States or their mandated bodies."}, {"bbox": [85, 636, 498, 665], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.2 Direct Management (Procurement)"}, {"bbox": [96, 680, 1134, 757], "category": "Text", "text": "A number of service contracts for technical assistance will be concluded to provide institutional capacity building, identify and implement policy dialogues, develop organise meetings and events and support communication activities."}, {"bbox": [96, 785, 1134, 889], "category": "Text", "text": "The provision of technical assistance may include short-term technical assistance/consultancies, ad-hoc studies and researches, communication and visibility and other related activities under Objective 1. Under this management mode, the activities/services will be procured by the EU Delegation on behalf of the Government of Namibia."}, {"bbox": [85, 938, 611, 967], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.3 Indirect Management with the Partner Country"}, {"bbox": [96, 993, 1134, 1101], "category": "Text", "text": "A part of this action with the objective of 1.1 Capacity development and institutional building to design and manage reforms, operationalise public policy priorities and solve implementation bottlenecks across the Government and of 1.2 Reinforced policy and political dialogue on key areas covered by the MIP may be implemented in indirect management with the Republic of Namibia according to the following modalities:"}, {"bbox": [96, 1112, 1134, 1167], "category": "Text", "text": "The partner country will act as the contracting authority for the procurement and grant procedures. The Commission will control ex-ante all the procurement and grant procedures."}, {"bbox": [96, 1178, 499, 1205], "category": "Text", "text": "Payments are executed by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [96, 1217, 1116, 1245], "category": "Text", "text": "The financial contribution does not cover the ordinary operating costs incurred under the programme estimates."}, {"bbox": [96, 1256, 1134, 1310], "category": "Text", "text": "The partner country shall apply the Commission's rules on procurement and grants. These rules will be laid down in the financing agreement to be concluded with the partner country."}, {"bbox": [133, 1349, 439, 1377], "category": "Text", "text": "a) Overview of implementation"}, {"bbox": [158, 1414, 556, 1443], "category": "Text", "text": "Activity/objective/Output, include location"}, {"bbox": [701, 1414, 1109, 1469], "category": "Text", "text": "Type of financing (works, supplies, or service contract, grant, programme estimate)"}, {"bbox": [85, 1562, 1144, 1636], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³ 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": [1027, 1636, 1144, 1660], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 13 of 17"}]