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SUMMARY:Potential Applicant Training
DESCRIPTION:Due to number of registred partcipants from Banja Luka region, CBIB decided to organize two trainings for potential grant beneficiaries of IPA cross-border programmes from Banja Luka. The first training took place on 22nd and 23rd September. The training was organised jointly by the CBIB project and Accredited Regional Development Agency for north-west region of Bosnia and Herzegovina – ARDA, and it was supported by the Republic of Srpska Chamber of Commerce.\nCBIB has organized 25 awareness seminars in Western Balkan region in 2007 and 2008, in order to inform potential beneficiaries in the region on IPA, cross-border programmes and upcoming activities related to the implementation of the programmes. These awareness seminars set the basis for the organization of the training sessions on preparation of project proposals, EC procedures and regulations that will be governing the implementation of EU funded projects.\nTaking into consideration requirements related to the preparation of CBC projects to be financed from IPA CBC funds, the fact that the Calls for Proposals will be open up to 90 days and that the most of the potential beneficiaries will develop CBC projects for the first time, CBIB has decided to organize first round of trainings in the region, before first Calls for Proposals are launched.\nThe purpose of the training was to prepare all interested potential beneficiaries to gain knowledge on the approach and logic in the preparation of grant proposals based on EC procedures, application and evaluation process.\nParticipants and objectives:\n28 persons from the Banja Luka attended two-day training, Ministry of trade and tourism, Ministry of internal affairs, RS Ministry of economy, RS Ministry of transport, Economic Institute and RS Investment development bank as well as institution such as RS Gender Centre and City of Banja Luka selected their own representatives based on experience and relevance to the training objectives.\nMost of trainees plan to be directly involved in the preparation of grant proposals and some of them have had experience in preparation of project based on EC procedures.\nThe main objectives of the course:\n\nPotential grant beneficiaries have a general understanding on the cross-border programme implementation: what is Call for Proposals (CfP) and the role of the Guidelines for Applicants (GfA) in the CfP.\nUnderstand what is required from the applicants in the Application Package.\nUnderstand what is important in preparing for the application process and what CBC partnership is.\nUnderstand the principles of the logical framework approach and the linkages between the different levels in the LFA.\nUnderstand what role external factors in the LFA have.\nUnderstand what role indicators in the LFA have and are aware how to formulate them.\nUnderstand the principles of the activity based budgeting.\nUnderstand how to fill in the Application form.\n\nThe objectives of the training indicate that the course was helping the potential grant beneficiaries to understand what is required in the grant preparation process, what are the ways and methods in building cross–border partnerships and what are the main elements of logical framework approach.\nThe training was consisted of following sessions under the Preparation of the Grant Proposal:\n\nIntroduction and opening by CBIB and Executive director of RS Chamber of Commerce\nIntroduction to IPA and CBC, CfP cycle, grant, guidelines for applicants\nWhy it is important to start preparing for CfP as soon as possible and what is CBC partnership?\nIntroduction to Logical Framework Approach\nStakeholder Analysis\nProblem analysis\nIntervention Logic\nExternal Factors/Indicators\nActivity-based budgeting\nApplication Form/Package\nHow to link the information of 2 days with the application form\n\nEach day consisted of morning and afternoon session that were introduced in combination of theory with exercises/“learning by doing”, and due to the relatively short duration of the training, most of the topics were presented in plenary sessions and followed by “buzzing” – group discussions. Group exercises were organised on the following topics: stakeholder analysis, problem, and objective analysis.\nAlso, CBIB team has developed Manual for potential grant beneficiaries, that was distributed to the participants during the training. The Manual present’s additional tool to the potential applicants since consists detailed information on grant preparation process, logical framework approach and application form.\nIn general, the participants evaluated the course highly positively. The qualities of the lectures were considered clear, useful, and interactive and most participants consider the course as highly successful and useful.\n\n
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