1. ESF in Poland Multi-level governance
Paweł Chorąży
ESF Management Department Director
Ministry of Regional Development
11th May 2011
Multilevel governace

2. HC OP characteristics
The largest Europe-wide ESF Programme in the programming period
Covers all ESF scope of assistance
13% of total ESF budget (the total HC OP budget amounts almost to EUR 11.5 bln – including over EUR 9 bln from ESF)

3. HC OP
41 interacting authority structures involved in the implementation process
National level
Regional level
5 Priorities
40% of ESF funds
4 Priorities
60% of ESF funds
developing policies and proposing new solutions under systemic HC OP projects
implementation solutions developed at the national level, adjusting national policies to the regional labour market needs
„mirror” structure of Prorities – policies linked both to national and regional authorities
projects may be developed by many kinds of entities: labour market institutions, training institutions, public administration units, enterprises, NGOs, educational institutions, higher schools etc.

4. Multi-level governance in HC OP
Levels of HC OP implementation
National level
Government
Programming support under national HC OP Priorities
(designing policies at the national level)
Regional level
Voivodship
Programming support under regional HC OP Priorities
(designing policies at the regional level)
Local level
Commune/County
Implementing projects in line with the policies designed at the regional and/or national level

5. Multi-level governance in HC OP
multi-level governance is a method to reconcile different interests of actors situated at different territorial levels and involved in the process of support programming
decentralised project selection procedure
multi-level monitoring system
multi-level co-financing mechanism – engaging either national budget or regional and local budgets
Multi-level management – overall number of HC OP engaged staff: ab employees – 700 at central level (ministries and govermental agencies, 3400 at regional level (marshal offices and labour offices

6. HC OP support programming
MA/EC
MA/IBs
IBs
PRIORITIES LEVEL (HC OP)
MEASURES AND SUB-MEASURES LEVEL (DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PRIORITIES)
ANNUAL ACTION PLANS LEVEL
setting forth: HC OP general provisions,
general financial and indicators’ tables
HC OP complimentary – technical provisions,
implementation system, disaggregation of
indicators base and future volumes, division
of alocation to regional envelopes
information on specific calls for porposals
and projects, annual indicators and finanacial
tabels for each IBs

7. Project selection under HC OP
Projects selected in accordance with project selection criteria:
General (valid for the whole HC OP)
Specific (set anually by each IB in Action Plans; subject to Monitoring Sub-committees opinion and Monitoring Committee approval)
Multi-level appealing procedure:
1st instance – call for proposal announcing institution
2nd instance – IB or MA
3rd instance – two-level judiciary system (voivoidship administrative courts and Supreme Administrative Court)

8. HC OP monitoring system
Monitoring Committee at the national level and 16 Monitoring Sub-committees at the regional level
Monitoring Committee
analysing and monitoring the implementation process
recommending the changes in the HC OP
submitting proposals for the improvement of the HC OP to the ESF MA
approving the annual reports and recommending periodical reports
16 Monitoring Sub-committees
systematic control of the progress of the defined objectives
analysing the results of the implementation of the Priorities in the region
analysing and accepting the project selection criteria
recommending reports

9. HC OP monitoring system (2)
Chair
Monitoring Committee Members
Sub-commitee Members
Regional and Local Stakeholders
Source: Małgorzata Gnyś-Wysocka,

10. HC OP monitoring system (3)
SUB-COMMITTEES
MONITORING
COMMITTEE
report +
monthly
information
report
report
BENEFICIARY
2nd level IB IB
MANAGING
AUTHORITY CA EC
payment claim
report +
monthly
information
report +
monthly
information
report +
monthly
information EC
report

11. HC OP monitoring system (4)
MANAGING
AUTHORITY
MC AND SMCs
INTERMEDIATE
BODIES
WORKING GROUPS
Within Monitoring Committee (MC)
within Sub-monitoring Committees (SMCs)
groups for Intermediate Bodies organised by the Managing Authority
WORKING GROUPS
SOLVING PROBLEMS
CHANGES

12. HC OP projects Almost 25 500 projects being implemented at the moment
Beneficiaries operate at different levels (local, regional, national)
Top ten Beneficiaries’ categories:
Communes (6500 projects)
Associations and social organisations (3800 projects)
Micro-enterprises (3250 projects)
Counties (2500 projects)
Schools and education entities (2000 projects)
Foundations (1700 projects)
Small enterprises (1600 projects)
Large enterprises (600 projects)
Voivodships (500 projects)
Self-government communities (400 projects)

13. Example no. 1 Regional Employment Observatories
NATIONAL DIMENSION
(Ministry of Labour
and Social Affairs)
Defining general direction of employment policy
Defining demand for skills and jobs at local and regional level and fine-tuning regional employment policy
REGIONAL DIMENSION
(Voivodship Labour Office)
LOCAL DIMENSION
(County Labour Offices)
Implementation

14. Example no. 2 Individualized teaching and education in primary schools
Managing Authority (MA)
defining guidelines
Ministry of National Education
defining curriculums
NATIONAL DIMENSION
Intermediate Bodies (IB)/
2nd Level Intermediate Bodies (IB2)
project selection and assessment
REGIONAL DIMENSION
Education Superintendent Offices
supporting project implementation
information and publicity
Authorities running schools and establishments
implementation
LOCAL DIMENSION
Primary schools and educational establishments
implementation

15. Example no. 3 Local grassroots initiatives
ESF operation which is initiated and implemented at the very basic level
LOCAL DIMENSION
REGIONAL DIMENSION
NATIONAL DIMENSION
LOCAL COMMUNITY
INTERMEDIATE BODY
MANAGING AUTHORITY
project idea i.e. in education area and implementation
call for proposal and project selection procedure
financing and monitoring

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