8 MAG 028 - programme to support communal initiatives and local associations (PAICAL)

Budget: 8 million Euros

Signature: October 2, 1999

Achievements: N/A

Role

My role was to prepare the Programme documents:

• The Execution Protocol
• The Decree and Order concerning the establishment of the Agence de microréalisation et de coopération décentralisée de l'Union Européenne (AMCD/UE) that is the executing agency, its financial framework, its organizational chart, among all.
• Financing Application for 8 million Euros - Signature August 29, 1999
• First Programme Estimate for 2,546,760,000 FMG - signed on March 30, 2000

Eligibility criteria:

• Be initiated by the beneficiary communities themselves.
• Be requested by these communities and/or their umbrella organization.
• be consistent with the development objectives of national economic policy and cooperation between the European Union and Madagascar.
• Meet a priority need expressed by the beneficiary communities and have an economic and/or social impact on the life of the population.
• Be carried out by the beneficiaries themselves and/or the community, or with their active participation.
• Provide sufficient guarantees for the operation, maintenance and sustainability of the projects; and
• Meet the required criteria and conditions of economic, technical and financial viability.
• Be consistent with the Local Development Plan, if one exists.

Conditions for beneficiaries:

• Be an incorporated community (e.g., municipality), a group of individuals, an association, or a cooperative group.
• Have the organizational capacity to contribute to the implementation of the planned actions, to manage grants and activities related to the implementation of their project, to take ownership of its implementation, and to assume responsibility for its operation and maintenance.
• Ensure an effective participation in the realization of the project, estimated at least equal to 25% of the total cost of the project, which participation may be in kind, in services or in cash, according to their possibilities.
• Guarantee the use of the product in accordance with the contract drawn up prior to the implementation of the project.