EuropeAid structure
The Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid is chaired by Director-General Fokion Fotiadis, and operates under the guidance of Commissioner Andris Piebalgs.
EuropeAid is made up of 10 directorates and five units directly attached to the Director General. Four of the directorates are geographical, two oversee the quality of operations and the thematic operations, one is responsible for organisational issues, and three ensure policy-making based on the European Consensus on Development (2005).
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.
- Thematic development policy-making and ACP-related issues.
Four geographical Directorates (A-D) 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 EU Delegations in coordination with the EEAS.
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 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.
Directorate G provides the human, financial and technical resources needed by the DG to perform its mission.
Directorates H to J are the policy-making pillars of the newly established DG.
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