[{"bbox": [96, 121, 1135, 228], "category": "Text", "text": "stakeholders, implementing partners and the EU. Other stakeholders may be invited in order to improve coordination and complementarity of interventions. The chair of the Steering Committees will be identified in consultation with key Ministries involved in the Action. The Steering Committees mechanism will be outlined in detail in the contractual modalities chosen for implementation."}, {"bbox": [96, 239, 1135, 320], "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 governance structures such as the Steering Committee and the Oversight Committee to ensure the effective implementation of the Action."}, {"bbox": [85, 373, 640, 405], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [85, 438, 432, 470], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [96, 493, 1135, 708], "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 (for project modality) and the partner's strategy, policy or reform action plan list (for budget support)."}, {"bbox": [96, 719, 1135, 800], "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": [96, 811, 1135, 866], "category": "Text", "text": "External monitoring under the form of external Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) exercises will be commissioned by the EU Delegation at selected times of the project."}, {"bbox": [96, 876, 1135, 1011], "category": "Text", "text": "Relevant information for most of the indicators in the logical framework matrix will not be available until the baseline survey is undertaken. Once the baseline data are available, the programme's logical framework and activities framework will be updated to reflect the baseline value before, and target values after the action. The EU delegation will participate in joint monitoring missions. Joint reviews or other consultation mechanisms may provide platform where all parties can agree to modify the logical frameworks and adapt the Action accordingly."}, {"bbox": [96, 1022, 1135, 1102], "category": "Text", "text": "Regular monitoring will also be assured by implementing partners and local authorities, providing as such immediate feedback, on the pace and quality of activity implementation for immediate corrective action to achieve annual targets."}, {"bbox": [96, 1113, 1135, 1300], "category": "Text", "text": "To address inequality-reduction in monitoring concerns, the monitoring system should be designed in a participatory manner and seek to include stakeholders in its design, application and use. It is essential that monitoring becomes a learning tool, going beyond reporting, and that it helps in understanding whether and how the intervention facilitates changes in the drivers of inequality, and why. The monitoring system should include both quantitative and qualitative indicators to facilitate participation and understanding by all stakeholders. Further, the indicators to be used should reflect the contextual drivers of inequality and provide information on changes in these drivers."}, {"bbox": [609, 1659, 636, 1684], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "29"}]