Together with the European Commission, the OECD actively engages with Managing Authorities to help them better administer EU Cohesion Policy funds. Our support includes developing national and regional Administrative Capacity Building (ACB) Roadmaps and working with Managing Authorities to implement as along with concrete, capacity-building actions. Currently, our focus is on helping Managing Authorities strengthen the capacity of their Cohesion Policy fund beneficiaries to design and implement high-quality projects.

We have collaborated with national and regional public authorities, members of the European Union (Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, Slovak Republic …), looking at practices in people management, organisation structures, strategic planning and implementation, beneficiary support, and higher-level framework conditions. Over the years, we have collaborated with over 10 national and regional public authorities in Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, etc.

The programme aims to strengthen the capabilities of national and regional public authorities in managing and deploying public investment funds for regional development. We work with pilot authorities to design and implement capacity-building action, and then consolidate lessons learned from these efforts, developing policy tools to scale up our support to benefit other authorities. We work with a selected group of public authorities to design and implement capacity-building actions, and then consolidate the lessons learned from these activities to develop policy tools for use by a broad range of institutions wishing to improve their ability to manage public investment funds.