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Austrian Development Agency (ADA)

Erik Vorhausberger06.03.2007

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ADA basic facts

Legal form:

non-profit limited liability company

Owner:

Republic of Austria

Owner‘s representative:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Supervisory board (term of office: 4 years):

12 Members: FMA (6 incl. chairperson), Ministries of Finance, Economic

Affairs, Social Affairs, Agriculture (each 1), Provincial Governors, staff

representatives (each 1)

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Budget and Staff

152 Total

79Country Offices

73Headquarters

Staff (per end of year)

99,95 Mio. EURProgrammes & Projects

2006Budget

161

84

77

100,3 Mio. EUR

2007*

* forecast

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Sources of Funding – Austrian ODA 2005

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Managing Director

Programmes & ProjectsInternational

Development Education &Communication in Austria

Finance & Legal Affairs Administration

Countries & Regions

Quality Assurance &Knowledge Management

Coop. With NGOs &Humanitarian Aid

Budgeting & Auditing

Accounting

Legal Affairs

Statistics

Human Resources

IT

Evaluation

Coordination &Organisational Development

Information & PR

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Legal basis - Development Cooperation Act Objectives & principles

Status & role of development organisations

Instruments

Coherence of the Austrian development policy

Legal basis for establishing ADA (amendment 2003)

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Strategic basis - Three-Year Programme Fundamentals of the Austrian Development Policy

Description of core programmes

Geographical priorities

Sector priorities

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References

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StrategicGuidelines

ADA Business Plan

ADA Annual Programme

Development Cooperation Act 2002

ADC Regional Strategies

Three-Year Programme of the Austrian Development PolicyADCstrategic level

ADCoperational level

Bilateral Programmes

ADC Country-Strategies

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Organisational context

Directorate General for Development Policy (Ministry of Foreign

Affairs)

Austrian Development Agency (ADA) – The operational Unit of the Austrian Development

Cooperation

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Division of responsibilities

MFA

Overall-coordination of the

Austrian public development

cooperation

Formulation of development

cooperation strategies and

policies

Policy-dialogue in Austria and at

international level

ADA

Implementing Austrian development

cooperation strategies and

programmes

Management of bilateral development

cooperation budget

Policy dialogue in partner-countries

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Austria & the new EU Member States

Agreement ADA - Slovak Republic: financing of trilateral projects, capacity building (Jan. 2006)

Harmonisation and Alignment: ADC conference with the new EU Member States (Nov. 2005 Vienna)

Seminar with Europ. Commission and new member states (European Developmt. Days, Nov. 2006, Brussels)

ADA-Conference with new Member States: capacity building in raising public understanding of Int’l Development (January 2007)

Plans for twinning arrangement with Hungarian MFA

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Cornerstones for trilateral partnership Finding common priorities (countries, sectors)

Memorandum of Understanding

Defining respective tasks & responsibilites

(Management Plan)

Joint Steering Committee

Joint missions

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Organisations – phases of development

© Larry E. Greiner

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Thank you!