ANNUAL REPORT 2009 - FPDL

• Professional support: through coaching and monitoring AP Teams whendesigning and implementing their projects.• Opportunities for Networking: through organizing Meetings for peer to peerlearning, experience exchange, dissemination of best practicesIn order to be able to start implementation of local projects in January 2010, thefollowing activities were realized in PAP I, in the period August-November 2010• Elaborate Call for Proposals and Evaluation Grid:• Launch Call for Proposals for LGI grants (end of August)• Receive applications – deadline October 15, 2009• Provide applications to AP Teams with Evaluation Form, to involve them inpeer-to-peer evaluation of proposals. It is proposed to evaluate the proposals ina participatory system, both by FPDL/WBI Tutors and by AP Teams: the finalevaluation result will be composed by the average of Tutors evaluation summedup with the average of peers’ Teams evaluation. When evaluating the projectsTeams are not allowed to evaluate own projects.• Evaluate proposals in the period October 20-November 15, 2009 for teamsand November 15-25 for Tutors• Elaborate PAP II (Regional Program 2009-2010) full proposal and apply toLGI. It is supposed that till November end, PAP Phase II will be approved sothat in December 2009 the best 3 projects will receive the 1 st installment oftheir grant.PROMOTING THE INOVATIVE APPROACH BROUGHT BY PAP• Ana Vasilache and Nicole Rata had a presentation, together with Ronald MacLeanAbaroa, on February 12, 2009 in WBI in Washington, about their collaboration inthe anticorruption program, the steps and results, and highlighted LocalGovernment Initiative of the Open Society Institute support that made possiblethe promotion in CEE/SEE countries of this innovative approach.• Other presentations were made during the Washington visit to differentinternational and funding organizations representatives (US Department of State,NED, Bretton Woods Committee, General Electric Foundation, Center for strategicand International Studies – Hills Program on Governance) and in all of them LGIsupport was highlighted as crucial for giving the opportunity to the “changeagents” – members of the Regional Program network - to learn and apply theinnovative approach, supporting local governments’ elaborate anticorruptionstrategies through participatory strategic planning processes.• Presentation of approach and PAP program by Ronald MacLean Abaroa and NicoleRata at the International Conference “Cities witout Corruption Cities with Future,• During the Skills Building Component, on July 1, 2009, the Union of MarmaraRegion Municipalities organized a conference during which Ana Vasilachepresented in front of Turkish mayors and academics, the Program forAnticorruption Practitioners process and results and LGI continuous support for itsimplementation.• Craiova Case together with intervention approach to cure and prevent corruptionin local governments was presented at LGI Biennial Jamboree, Lisbon, Portugal,November 13-14, 2009 by Ronald MacLean Abaroa, Nicole Rata and Craiova CityHall representative, Elvira Stancu, Public Relations DirectorFOLLOW UP MEETINGDate and venue: November 27-29, 2009. Istanbul14