Framework Contract BENEF Lot 9 – Culture, Education, Employment and Social

2005 to 2013

£ 12.3 million

European Commission

Identifying and sourcing consultants; bid preparation; logistical and financial management; and contract implementation.

Under this EC-managed Global Framework Contract system, each project can have a value of up to Euro 200,000.

Lot 9 Culture, Education, Employment and Social encompasses a wealth of expertise falling under this broad heading and includes projects in the fields of:

Education (formal and non-formal)

•  Early childhood education, primary and secondary education
•  Higher education (Degree and diploma programmes at universities, colleges and polytechnics; scholarships)
•  Basic life skills for youth and adults (including literacy and numeracy training)
•  Education sector analysis, reform and management (Education sector policy, financing, planning and programming; aid to education ministries, administration and management systems; institutional capacity assessment and building; school management and governance; curriculum and materials development)

Vocational Education and Training - VET (formal and non-formal)

• Elementary vocational training, secondary level technical education and advanced technical training
• Alternate training, in-service training and apprenticeships
• VET sub-sector analysis, reform and management (including analysis and measures to strengthen the links between VET and the Labour market and to promote involvement of the private sector)

Labour Market and Employment (formal and non-formal)

• Structure and characteristics of the labour force (labour force participation and trends etc)
• Labour market settings/management, employment services and offices
• Wage policy and labour market
• Social dialogue (industrial relations; labour unions; labour-union participation)
• Job creation (incidence of job loss on various groups; labour mobility and turnover)

Social Inclusion and Protection (formal and informal)

• Social situation and impact analysis
• Social policy institutions and their management
• Pension policy, legislation, systems and reform
• Health and accident insurance policy, legislation, systems and reform
• Unemployment insurance schemes
• Social inclusion and assistance policies and systems

Poverty

• Poverty analysis and monitoring (including Millennium Development Goals and Poverty Reduction Strategies, stakeholder and final beneficiary analysis)
  

The Framework Department is a dedicated unit at HTSPE, established specifically to administer, manage and implement Framework Contracts (FWC). With a track record of successful implementation since 1996, HTSPE has both wide and deep experience, supported by one of the largest in-house databases of consultants across the world.

HTSPE has been leading the consortium for Lot 9 Culture, Education, Employment and Social since 2005 as well as being active in Lot 1 Rural Development, Lot 6 Environment; Lot 10, Trade, Standards and Private Sector; and EC Frameworks COM 2007 Lots 2, 4 and 5.

Together with their consortium partners, HTSPE has worked on all main areas within the pre-defined scope of activities.

The expertise provided covers the entire project cycle from programme/project identification, preparation and formulation; programme/project implementation;  preparation of Terms of Reference or technical annexes or evaluation of offers; evaluation of grant proposals and evaluations (ex-ante, interim, and ex-post) and monitoring. The services provided also cover a number of cross-cutting issues, including:

• (cross-) sectoral policies and reforms;
• macro-economics;
• legislation, regulation and law enforcement;
• approximation of legislation (acquis communautaire);
• institution building;
• training and research;
• awareness raising, including information and communication; and
• public financial management.