1. Implementing Structural Funds in Hungary Zsuzsa Kondor Director General Community Support Framework Managing Authority 28 September 2004

2. History Economic Transformation Competitiveness
Infrastructure and Balanced Development
Human Resourse Development

3. Approach & Institutional framework
Chapter 21 - define broad criteria
Master Plan – OP MA and IB framework plus PA and the legal environment
‘Birth’ of the institutions
Recruitment and training
Ownership and authority
Twinning support

4. Legislative environment & Tools and systems
legislation
institutions
financial management and control
budget law
public procurement law
manual vs. decree
themed guidelines (e.g. horizontal themes, public procurement)
IT system

5. Project Generation Project Generation Facility MEURO 27
more than 500 projects
divert attention from pro-active project development

6. Change Management Leadership Busines Planning
Addressing historical bureaucracy
Cultural change
Delegation with Accountability
Risk aware not risk averse
Customer focused

7. Partnership and Monitoring Committees
50% of members
preliminary Monitoring Committees: September 2003
capacity building
ownership

8. Horizontal Themes
Equality of Opportunity (men and women, people with handicaps, Roma community)
Sustainable Development
attitude changes
raising awareness
disseminating best practice

9. Conclusions Visionary Leadership
Setting goals with effective business planning
Management development and change
Pro-active programme and performance management
Dealing with bureaucracy
Seek ’fit for purpose’ solutions to business problems
Structural Funds - an agent for change
Creating jobs - understanding Economic Development
Valuing diversity and addressing inequality
Creating a sustainable environment

10. ’Managers do things right – Leaders do the right things’
’What distinguishes Managers from Leaders is the concern for cultural change’
’Managers do things right – Leaders do the right things’
(quote from Max Wide, Lead Associate from SOLACE UK Ltd who led the Management of Change workshops in the CSF in Hungary.)