[{"bbox": [174, 152, 697, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.6 Organisational Set-up and Responsibilities"}, {"bbox": [141, 200, 1135, 332], "category": "Text", "text": "The overall coordination of all components of the programme will be ensured through a Steering Committee co-chaired by EU Delegation and Government of The Gambia (indicatively the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Trade and Employment, the Ministry of Finance and the Food Safety and Quality Authorities) involving the implementing partners, financing institutions, representatives of civil society (when relevant) and of the private sector."}, {"bbox": [141, 358, 1135, 462], "category": "Text", "text": "The Steering Committee will provide oversight on the programme's implementation, provide recommendations on the annual workplan and budget, assess overall progress and recommend remedial actions when needed. The meetings will take place every 4 months in the first project year and bi-annually later."}, {"bbox": [141, 470, 1135, 578], "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, 643, 684, 676], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [130, 710, 476, 741], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [141, 761, 1135, 949], "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": [141, 954, 1135, 1033], "category": "Text", "text": "Inequality reduction will be mainstreamed into the monitoring and evaluation of the project and indicators will be income-disaggregated and disaggregated by other relevant aspects whenever possible (sex, age, area of residence, etc.)."}, {"bbox": [141, 1039, 1135, 1120], "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, 1152, 785, 1179], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring:"}, {"bbox": [141, 1179, 1135, 1259], "category": "Text", "text": "Studies to set baseline data and targets as well as final data will be conducted by the entrusted entities (with project funding) during the inception phase and at the end of project implementation, respectively. These will be regularly reviewed (and updated if necessary) during implementation."}, {"bbox": [141, 1259, 1135, 1365], "category": "Text", "text": "The entrusted entities will have the responsibility of day-to-date monitoring. Data collected will be used in the regular reports. The reports shall be laid out in such a way as to allow monitoring of the means envisaged and employed and of the budget details for the action. The final report, narrative and financial, will cover the entire period of the action implementation."}, {"bbox": [141, 1365, 1135, 1498], "category": "Text", "text": "Progress in the achievement of results will be measured by means of the indicators of the LF of this Action. The internal monitoring systems of the implementing partners should include the tracking of these indicators. In addition, given that the Gender Equality Makers is G1 (Significant Objective) the monitoring systems should facilitate a gender-sensitive monitoring of results, including the collection and reporting of gender disaggregated data."}, {"bbox": [141, 1523, 756, 1551], "category": "Text", "text": "The findings will also be discussed within the Steering Committee."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1682, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 28 of 30"}]