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09/10/2010
Who’s
who at EuropeAid
European Commission
EuropeAid Co-operation Office operates under the guidance of
Commissioner
Andris Piebalgs, who is
responsible for
Development.
EuropeAid Director-General,
Koos Richelle , is responsible
for the overall realisation of the DG's mission, which consists in the
implementation of the Commission's external aid instruments financed by
the Community budget and the European Development Funds.
Organisational structure
EuropeAid is made up of seven directorates and four units directly
attached to the Director General. Four of the directorates are
geographical, two oversee the quality of operations and the thematic
operations and the last one dedicates itself to organisational issues.
The four geographical directorates cover:
·
A:
Europe, the Southern Mediterranean, the
Middle East and the
Neighbourhood Policy.
·
B:
Latin America.
·
C:
Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the
Pacific
·
D:
Asia and Central Asia
These directorates are responsible for managing the entire project
cycle, from identification to final evaluation. Work is carried out by
EuropeAid from its headquarters in Brussels or, for devolved operations,
via the Commission Delegations.
The Directorates provide:
·
Planning for the implementation of activities by country and by region,
and pass on guidelines and instructions to delegations for project
identification and appraisal.
·
Methodological coherence and quality assurance, in collaboration with
the directorate for operations quality support.
·
Management of procedures culminating in a financing decision.
·
Support to delegations that manage devolved programmes, or direct
management for operations that cannot be devolved. The aim is to
maximise project effectiveness and impact.
Directorate F
is responsible for thematic operations overseeing all horizontal
programmes (on Non State Actors ,
human rights , election
support , protection of the environment
,
food security,
Gender , health
, migration and asylum ,
nuclear safety and on
stability) that are not linked to
a particular geographical area.
Quality counts
Directorate E
oversees the quality of co-operation programmes and aims to improve
their effectiveness and impact. It is responsible for:
·
Coordinating assessments on sectoral and thematic approaches and
instruments for their implementation.
·
Developing and distributing methodological, sectoral and thematic
guidelines for the preparation and implementation of programmes in the
various EU aid sectors.
·
Providing support, when requested, to delegations and geographical
directorates in relation to the preparation, implementation, monitoring
and evaluation of programmes.
Directorate G
provides the human, financial and technical resources needed by the DG
to perform its mission.
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