Improving ex-ante and ex-post control including PP, SCO and State Aid
4 intensive days to improve Monitoring and Control based on concrete Walk-through Checks with Beneficiaries and Auditors and a good occasion to anticipate the design and implementation of new Management & Control systems. This study visit will focus on the evolution of Verification and Monitoring officers’ job for both “soft” and “hard” interventions and to see concrete improvement of the data collection and reporting from beneficiaries to authorities. A panel of experts (including project managers, beneficiary representatives, supervision engineers…) and auditors will present their techniques, tools and checklists with a specific discussion about the type and level of corrections and possible reporting. How to make it fair and proportionate ? A good occasion to simplify and in the meantime to make more secure checks. A good occasion as well to visit and talk directly to Beneficiaries around Dubrovnik and make concrete illustration of findings and exchange of data.
by Franck SOTTOU, Nikola DUREK and Guests
4-day Face-to-Face Seminar
3-6 October 2023 in Dubrovnik
Key elements:
- Looking for errors and irregularities in a more effective way
- feedbacks from desk-based checks
- planning of controls / sampling methods
- Specific checks of state aid, PP, conflict of interest, risks of fraud
- Presenting new guidance for risks based checks
- specific questions and checklists
- reporting techniques
- Looking to the best practices for coupling technical and financial checks
- new accountability at operation level
- linking ex-ante and ex-post checks
- Getting key alerts about deliverables and indicators
- key and specific data to be collected
- Linking in a better way ex-ante / ex-post / desk-based / on-the-spot checks
- Making clear distinction between 1st and 2nd level checks
- Focusing on checklist and specific data collection
- Ensuring sound walk-through checks
- Insisting on dialogue with beneficiaries
- Visits on-the-spot and case studies around Dubrovnik (one hard, one soft operation)
- One cohesion dinner and/or tour visit