Division 3 AWARD CRITERIA

The award criteria make it possible to select work programmes that can guarantee compliance with the Commission’s objectives and priorities and can guarantee proper dissemination and communication including visibility of the Community financing.

To this end, the annual work programme presented with a view to obtaining Community funding must fulfil the following criteria:

1. (a)

   Policy and contextual relevance

   The annual work programme must be consistent with the objectives of the second Community Programme in the field of health as regards the annual work plan for 2009.

2. (b)

   Technical quality of the proposed work programme

   The work programme must be clear, realistic and well detailed, in particular as regards the following aspects:

   • clarity of the objectives and their suitability for achieving the expected results,

   • description of the activities planned, tasks and responsibilities and timetables, including actions on communication and dissemination,

   • description of the internal and external evaluation of the actions and of the indicators to be used in order to verify that the objectives of the work programme have been achieved.

   The work programme must be cost-effective and thus demonstrate that the budget is commensurate with the resources to be used.

3. (c)

   Management quality

   The organisation applying for funding must:

   • guarantee an appropriate governing structure, management processes, human and financial resources and administration, and good working relationships with relevant partners and stakeholders,

   • be able to demonstrate the level of achievement of its organisational objectives and its capacity to achieve result.