• 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, <strong>2009</strong>• 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 <strong>FPDL</strong>/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, <strong>2009</strong> for teamsand November 15-25 for Tutors• Elaborate PAP II (Regional Program <strong>2009</strong>-2010) full proposal and apply toLGI. It is supposed that till November end, PAP Phase II will be approved sothat in December <strong>2009</strong> 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, <strong>2009</strong> 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, <strong>2009</strong>, 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, <strong>2009</strong> by Ronald MacLean Abaroa, Nicole Rata and Craiova CityHall representative, Elvira Stancu, Public Relations DirectorFOLLOW UP MEETINGDate and venue: November 27-29, <strong>2009</strong>. Istanbul14
REGIONAL PROGRAM EVALUATIONBackgroundLGI contracted two evaluations process regarding <strong>FPDL</strong>, the Regional Program and the Programfor Anticorruption Practitioners.<strong>FPDL</strong> and Regional Program EvaluationThis evaluation reviews the performance of the Regional Program for CapacityBuilding “Working Together” offered by <strong>FPDL</strong> (Partners Foundation for LocalDevelopment), Romania and supported by the Local Government Initiative (LGI),Budapest. In line with the ToR, the evaluation deals with a series of issues related toproject implementation as mentioned above. In addition, <strong>FPDL</strong> was assessed in termsof its organizational and financial capacity, The evaluation looks at both the programand also the main institution involved, <strong>FPDL</strong>.Evaluation objectivesThe objectives of this evaluation, were to assess <strong>FPDL</strong> in terms of the:• The ability to effectively serve as a transnational, professional network to trainlocal elected officials• The track record in raising the quality of training programs for elected officials inthe region through dissemination efforts• Its running of an organizational and management structure congruent with themission of the Regional ProgramConsultants: The evaluation was conducted by Forbes Davidson and Alberto Gianoli,from ,Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rottterdam, TheNetherlands, and Nicolae Taralunga, IHS RomaniaEvaluation design and methodologyThe approach used follows the evaluation framework of OECD. This focuses onRelevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency and Impact. In addition, the organizationaland financial aspects of <strong>FPDL</strong> were assessed using the Common AssessmentFramework (CAF)For collecting data on the different evaluation topics, the following approaches wereused:• The basis for the evaluation was a desk study of project related documentation,including the project documents, financial reports, as well as project progressreports, board meeting notes, general documents, reports prepared by partnerorganisations as well as the Internet. In addition to these project relateddocuments, a desk study was made of publications realised by the project,including training manuals, newsletters, etc. An overview of documentsconsulted is provided in Appendix 3.• A self-evaluation framework was developed which was completed by <strong>FPDL</strong>.This can be found in Appendix 4, and is a very useful input.• Face to face interviews were held. An overview of people met, is provided inAppendix 2.• Telephone interviews were conducted , and these are also listed in Appendix 2• Questionnaires were developed and sent to 100 partner organizations.As part of the evaluation, field visits were held with LGI in Budapest and with <strong>FPDL</strong> inBucharest.15