PMC HCIOP Structural Funds – preparations for next ‘round’ Mullingar, 12.12.2012 1
Content s Commission Position Paper Contents A. Context B. Challenges and Priorities relevant to Funds C. Success Factors for Effective Delivery D. What next? 2
Context Common Strategic Framework • Strategic, integrated, coordinated and coherent approach • Thematic concentration • Prioritisation for visible results • Results orientation • Cooperation • Simplification 3
Context THE COMMON STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK EU level ERDF, ESF, EAFRD, EMFF THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT ERDF, ESF, EAFRD, EMFF National level Operational Programmes for ERDF (incl. ETC) ESF EMFF EAFRD 4
Context Socio-economic situation in Ireland • Ireland GDP per capita 129 % (2011) of the EU- 27 (2009: 127%) • Regional disparities (2009) between Southern and Eastern (142%) and Border, Midland and Western (89%) • Unemployment: 14,7% (2011) (of which 59,4% long-term in nature) • Youth unemployment: 29,1% (2011) • At-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion 29,9% (2010) 5
Context Europe 2020 headline targets Europe 2020 headline targets Current National 2020 situation target - NRP Ireland 3% of EU GDP to be invested in research and development 1.8% 2% 20% energy from renewables 5,8% 16% 75% population aged 20-64 should be employed 64,1% 69-71% Reduction in number of people in EU at risk of poverty or social 277000 200000 exclusion by al least 20 million 6
Context Why a Position Paper? • Context: closer alignment with Europe 2020 strategy, Memorandum of Understanding and Country Specific Recommendation • Pro-active approach: "no surprises" early stage information on Commission services' position on Member State priorities for 2014-2020 • Based on challenges and development needs • Clears the way for informal dialogue between Commission services and Member States 7
B. Challenges and Priorities relevant to the Funds High levels of unemployment, increasingly long- • term in nature High youth unemployment • Increasing risk of social exclusion • 8
Significant challenges • High unemployment, increasingly long-term in nature: 9
Significant challenges Youth Unemployment and NEET rate 10
Significant challenges Level of early school leaving above national target for 2020 Source: Eurostat 11
Significant challenges Increasing risk of Poverty and social exclusion 12
Funding priority Combatting 1. long-term unemployment 2. youth unemployment and 3. social exclusion 13
Priorities and specific objectives 1. Promoting employment and labour mobility 1.1. Access to employment and support for labour mobility: • Support the unemployed, with a particular focus on the long-term unemployed, to access employment • Improve qualification levels of low skilled unemployed, with a particular focus on low skilled long-term unemployed • Support women to (re)integrate into the labour market 14
Priorities and specific objectives 1.2. Sustainable integration of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) into the labour market • Support NEETS to participate in training programmes which include work experience with labour market relevance; • Support the introduction of the youth guarantee that aims at offering support to young people not in employment, education and training within 4 months of leaving school. 15
Priorities and specific objectives • 1.3. Modernisation and strengthening of labour market institutions Support the development of skills of PES staff • • 1.4. Facilitating diversification and job creation in rural areas Up-skilling, job creation and entrepreneurship in rural areas • • 1.5 . Facilitating the transition towards new skills and jobs from fisheries and related activities • Support for quality job creation in coastal communities 16
Priorities and specific objectives • 2. Promoting social inclusion • 2.1. Active inclusion: • Support people in poverty or at risk of poverty and social exclusion to access counselling, training and other activities, with the aim to bring them closer to the labour market; • Preventative support at an early stage for children and teenagers of vulnerable groups to help them integrate in the labour market and society. • 2.2. Support to basic services and other poverty reduction measures in rural and coastal areas, including • Provision or adaptation of local basic services and promotion of entrepreneurship and skills acquisition, • Fostering Community-led Local Development (CLLD) including LEADER local development strategies and investments in small- scale infrastructures. 17
Priorities and specific objectives • 3. Investing in education and lifelong learning • 3.1. Reducing early school-leaving : • Support early school leavers and low skilled people to gain upper secondary education and to reduce low achievement in basic skills. • 3.2. Lifelong learning, training and advisory services for farmers, seafarers and rural population • Support the transfer of knowledge in particular on good farm and forestry management practice. • Support vocational training, entrepreneurship and skills acquisition in new technologies specific to the marine industry, agriculture and forestry. 18
Challenges and Priorities relevant to the Funds Insufficient commercialisation of basic research and low availability of finance for the private sector (especially SMEs) Irleand 10th on the Innovation Union scoreboard and Innovation Follower • Funding Priority: • Promote R&D investment and the competitiveness of the business sector 19
Challenges and Priorities relevant to the Funds Inefficient use of resources • 5,8% share of renewable energy sources in final consumption • 7,6% reduction in GHG emissions – long way to go to reach 20% target in 2020 Funding Priority: Promotion of an environmentally-friendly and resource efficient economy 20
21 C. Success Factors for Effective Delivery • Strategic, integrated, coordinated and coherent approach • Monitoring and Evaluation aligned to new regulatory framework • Coordination, complementarity and synergy between CSF funds including use of integrated approaches (ITIs, CLLD, etc.)
22 Success factors … Ex-ante conditionalities: • Smart Specialisation Strategy • Active labour market policies are designed and delivered in coherence with Employment Guidelines • Fisheries-related conditionalities (multi-annual strategic plan on aquaculture, administrative capacity for data collection and implementation of an EU control, inspection and enforcement system)
23 Success factors Monitoring and evaluation Emphasis should shift from financial absorption to results. This implies building robust monitoring and evaluation capacities, implying: • Setting of reliable targets and tracking of physical progress • Improved alert mechanisms • In-depth evaluations and conversion of results into remedial measures when required • Development of sound methodologies to capture the results of the interventions
24 Success factors Integrated approaches to territorial development • A broad range of instruments are provided for in this regard and should be fully grasped (e.g. Atlantic Strategy) • In order to stimulate ownership, the role of local actors should be enhanced in line with the LEADER experience • Integrated Territorial Investments allow the flexible implementation of parts of OPs in a cross-cutting manner – their success may critically depend on setting up sound management structures • Community-led Local Development offers an integrated bottom-up approach in response to complex territorial challenges
25 D. What Next? • Informal dialogue meetings between Commission and Ireland • Submission of draft Partnership Agreement • Negotiation mandate and observations on Partnership Agreement sent to Ireland by Commission • Adoption Partnership Agreement • Submission of draft Programmes • Observations on Programmes by Commission • Final deadline for adoption of Programmes
26 What next? Next steps • Decemberr Decemberr December December Second Second Second Second First half First half Q1 2014 Q1 2014 2012 2012 2012 until 2012 until semester semester semester semester 2014 2014 submission submission 2013 2013 2013 2013 PA by MS PA by MS Launch Ireland Informal Official Beginning PA OP dialogue submission of the official adoption adoption between EC PA and OPs negotiations by EC by EC and Ireland - between EC Discussion and Ireland on specific areas PA/OPs
27 What next? Timing for negotiations
What next? It is essential to start the preparation of the new programming documents now . Work should start on: • Ex-ante conditionalities to be fulfilled by the PA and OPs submission • Ex-ante evaluation to be ready by the PA and OPs submission • Involvement of all partners from the start ensuring ownership of the programmes
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