[{"bbox": [139, 151, 1135, 261], "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, 285, 400, 316], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5. Indicative Budget"}, {"bbox": [128, 327, 1186, 684], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><th>Indicative Budget components</th><th>EU contribution (amount in EUR)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Implementation modalities</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Objective:</strong> \"Improve a climate change resilient agro-forestry sector that provides sustainable and fair benefits to Timorese men and women, including most vulnerable people\" composed of</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Grants (direct management) – cf. section 4.3.1</td><td>6 800 000</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Evaluation</strong> – cf. section 5.8</td><td>200 000</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Audit</strong> – cf. section 5.9</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Totals</strong></td><td>7 000 000</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [128, 700, 650, 731], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.6 Organisational Set-up and Responsibilities"}, {"bbox": [139, 746, 1135, 853], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will be implemented by a consortium of organizations (with at minimum active involvement of national NGOs). High level yearly Steering Committee will be organized chaired by one of the line ministries from the Government (likely MAF or SSE) and co-chaired by the EU, with presence of implementing partners and main stakeholders. Quaterly technical steering committees and ad hoc committees will be also organized."}, {"bbox": [139, 864, 1135, 971], "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": [139, 982, 1135, 1224], "category": "Text", "text": "Considering the large scope of support of the Action, including grass root mobilization, distribution of inputs, training and technical assistance, organization of commercial groups, capacity building of the Government and policy and legislative support, it is expected that a consortium of partners will apply for the project. At minimum a consortium of international and local NGOs is advised, but preferably additional partners such as international organizations and eventually SMEs. As per the EUD Roadmap for Engagement with Civil Society in Timor Leste, calls for proposal must specify that when international NGOs apply as main applicant, they must have a local CSO as co-applicant, and also include financial support to third parties in order to support even smaller CSOs active on the sector but unable to directly access EU funding due to low financial and management capacity."}, {"bbox": [128, 1262, 683, 1295], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [128, 1328, 473, 1360], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [139, 1381, 1135, 1568], "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": [625, 1654, 649, 1678], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "17"}]