EcoRegion

Project Management

Tim Mahler

220.04.23

Progress Overview – 1st Progress Report

• First progress report and clarifications handed in

• Indicators for EcoRegion Project defined in Annex I of the progress report handed in

320.04.23

Progress Overview – 1st Progress Report: Problems Encountered • Low spending rate of money available for project

10 of 22 partners requested money Only 5% of project budget spent

• First level controller Centralized countries had problems with the reporting deadline FLC under budgeted in many partner budgets

• Great bureaucratic effort• Very time consuming procedure

420.04.23

Consequences: Operation Plan and Log Frame Operation plan aims at:

• Encouraging project partners to plan their contributions • Developing concrete plans about activities in cooperation

with project partners• Linking detailed activities with time, money and responsible

partner for better project management• Collecting the needs for adaptation of budget and activities

520.04.23

Consequences: Operation Plan and Log Frame Log Frame aims at:

• Providing a better overview about responsibilities of each project partner

• Improving the information about project progress

620.04.23

Consequences: Financial seminar and Pre-Check

• GTZ offered a briefing to financial managers and FLC to improve the preparation for reporting

• GTZ will offer a pre-check of progress report to detect problems earlier

• GTZ will advice partners about budget shifts to finance FLC

• Conference evaluation

720.04.23

Important Dates

• End of 2nd Implementation Period: 31.01.2010

• Deadline for submitting progress reports, both financial and detailed description until 24.03.2010

• Pre-Check before sending Documents to FLC

• Decision on date for 4th EcoRegion conference