[{"bbox": [141, 153, 1133, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "on the macro-fiscal developments, the progress in public finance management reforms and the transparency of budgetary documents. The EU Delegation may be invited to participate in the Steering Committee."}, {"bbox": [141, 219, 1134, 272], "category": "Text", "text": "Close policy dialogues between the EU and the Government of Aruba on budget support and monitoring of the Action will be ensured in order to react if problems occur."}, {"bbox": [141, 284, 1134, 391], "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 and may sign or enter into joint declarations or statements, for the purpose of enhancing the visibility of the EU and its contribution to this Action and ensuring effective coordination."}, {"bbox": [130, 432, 681, 464], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [130, 485, 464, 516], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1. Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [141, 530, 1134, 768], "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 partner's strategy, policy or reform action plan list. Progress reports must be published and available to the public. Efforts will be made to obtain sex-disaggregated data from users or beneficiaries of this Action to feed the assessment of indicators."}, {"bbox": [141, 781, 1133, 862], "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": [141, 874, 786, 901], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring:"}, {"bbox": [141, 914, 1134, 1074], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Monitoring of the progress in the implementation of the E-government Roadmap will be done annually through the annual report of the Department for Innovation as part of the annual report of the Ministry of General Affairs. There are no statistical and monitoring systems to monitor progress yet. However, data on the use of e-government systems will be complied using sources such as Google Analytics. Quality and client satisfaction data will be collected by means of tailored surveys under the population and business community."}, {"bbox": [141, 1075, 1134, 1155], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Monitoring of the eligibility criteria on a stability-oriented fiscal policy will be done by the Central Bank of Aruba (bi-annual reports), the IMF (once every two years) and the Commission Financieel Toezicht Aruba (reports on the budget documents including the quarterly budget execution reports)."}, {"bbox": [141, 1156, 1134, 1237], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Monitoring of the eligibility criteria on progress in the PFM reform plans will be done in the framework of the monitoring of the Landspakket as agreed with the Dutch Government. Activity plans and progress reports are prepared quarterly publicly available at https://www.two-acs.com/."}, {"bbox": [141, 1262, 1133, 1316], "category": "Text", "text": "The statistical and monitoring systems as well as the quality of official data in the policy field covered have been assessed. This assessment has fed into the design of the action as follows."}, {"bbox": [141, 1316, 601, 1340], "category": "Text", "text": "1. Continue to use Central Bureau of Statistic data"}, {"bbox": [141, 1342, 1133, 1393], "category": "Text", "text": "2. Further strengthening of the national statistical system through implementation of the Landspakket with the Netherlands"}, {"bbox": [141, 1395, 1133, 1448], "category": "Text", "text": "3. Apply new developed eGov-specific data and reports as part of the policy's monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system."}, {"bbox": [141, 1448, 1133, 1502], "category": "Text", "text": "All monitoring and reporting need to assess how the Action is considering the principle of gender equality and human rights-based approach. It is sought to have indicators disaggregated at least by sex."}, {"bbox": [130, 1516, 297, 1543], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2. Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [141, 1562, 1133, 1616], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the nature of the Action, a final or an ex-post evaluation may be carried out for this Action or its components through a joint mission contracted by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1682, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 26 of 28"}]