IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY DOCUMENTS ON PARTNERSHIP Katerina Hadzi-Miceva European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Hadzi-Miceva, ECNL

Implementation issues The Process Implementation issues Initiate: ‘who’ and ‘why’ Negotiate: ‘what’ and ‘how’ Analyze, develop principles, draft, discuss Adopt, sign Implement, enforce Monitor Evaluate Revise The importance of process (guarantee for effectiveness) Implementation issues arise as early as during ‘initiation’ – who will initiate – if NGOs, how to make the Gov’t adopt the concept Hadzi-Miceva, ECNL

Implementation: Putting Commitment into Effect Compliance General commitments: observance Specific commitments: action Reaching the Goal How to quantify impact? Establishing indicators to gauge the success Hadzi-Miceva, ECNL

Implementation Plan Part of the document Separate strategy Implementation guidelines Action plan Possible actions: analyze, form committees, adopt regulation, propose schedules, responsibilities… Hadzi-Miceva, ECNL

Implementation Issues Ownership Existing level of cooperation Legislative, political, social, cultural traditions Flexibility Hadzi-Miceva, ECNL

Guarantees Legal nature of document (binding or not) Public institution that has adopted it EU institution National parliament, government, local council Redress for non-compliance Ombudsman ECJ, national courts Mediation schemes Hadzi-Miceva, ECNL

Assigning Responsibilities Liaison bodies Parliament, government Role But centralization? ‘Champions’ Involve early and often Joint committees Representatives from both sectors Experts’ participation Hadzi-Miceva, ECNL

Implementation: Monitoring and Revision Awareness raising Harness momentum Show results Mechanism of monitoring, evaluation, reporting: by whom (joint institution, specialized unit) to whom. Plan for review and revision Hadzi-Miceva, ECNL

Thank you! katerina@ecnl.org.hu www.ecnl.org Hadzi-Miceva, ECNL