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SUPERVISION AS AN ÁPPROPRIATE FORM OF INTERNAL MONITORING WITHIN EUROPEAN
UNION COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Project Cycle Management, including capacity building at local stakeholders’
level.’ The initial monitoring function was keeping tract of project activities
implementation and results achievement with the aim of risk prevention and
efficient result achievement (the administrative function). Current tendencies
in monitoring improvement are oriented more towards capacity building in
order to enhance participation and ownership as well as improve Project Cycle
Management. Therefore, in addition to its original supervisory function, the
monitoring now has two new purposes: the educational and the supporting
one. For this reason I started to examine the possibilities of application of
supervision as a form of internal monitoring of cooperation development
projects funded by EU.
PROBLEMS IN THE FIELD
The promotion of participation and ownership of development processes
by local stakeholders is one of the main issues within European foreign
development policy. EU has approached dealing with this problem at different
levels: decentralization of programmes of development aid that started in 2000,
promotion of partnership as an integral part of project proposal, involvement
of local stakeholders in activities of Project Coordination Boards and other
Management Bodies, etc. Still, in the sphere of international cooperation
development projects there are different problems in the field that affect
negatively participation and ownership of local stakeholders.
In first instance, very often the organizations that are mostly in charge of
entire Project Cycle Management (identification of needs, formulation of pro¬
ject proposal, implementation, and evaluation) are foreign organizations (In¬
ternational Cooperation Organizations)“. Although the priority (in donor’s
evaluation of project proposals) is always given to local organizations, often
those do not have capacities to formulate a valid project proposal or to manage
a project that is funded by EU or other international donors. On the other hand,
the international organizations often do not involve local stakeholders in the
process of assessment of needs and of project formulation while partnerships
with local stakeholders remain just formalities written in the project proposal.
Furthermore, the activities of Project Coordination Bodies that should actively
Ibid.
Organizations with Headquarters situated in a European country and with affiliates in other
countries worldwide within which are managed development projects funded by different
international donors, including EU.