Austrian OSCE Chairmanship 2017 Priorities Framework Programme



Contract partner: OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Country: Entwicklungsländer, unspezifisch Funding amount: € 200.000,00 Project start: 01.08.2017 End: 30.06.2019

Short Description:

Overall goal


The 2017 OSCE Austrian Chairmanship aims to address key security challenges in the OSCE region, including violent conflicts, radicalization and a crisis of confidence in institutions. With the firm belief that the OSCE can play a key role in addressing and resolving security concerns in its area; this Repository Programme aims at providing support to initiatives led by the OSCE’s field operations, autonomous institutions and the Secretariat that serve the strategic 2017 OSCE Austrian Chairmanship programmatic priorities.


Expected results


This Repository Programme will make an important contribution to the long-term strategic goals of the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship:

1. Contributing towards defusing existing conflicts.

2. Joining forces in fighting radicalisation and violent extremism.

3. Re-establishing trust and confidence.

In particular in the areas of: conflict prevention, security, economic participation, environmental protection, good governance, anti-corruption, democratization, rule of law, human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, countering trafficking in human beings, gender issues, countering violent extremism and combatting terrorism


Target group / Beneficiaries


The Repository Programme will facilitate funding to the projects that will be implemented via the OSCE executive structures defined as the Secretariat, Field Operations and Institutions. Depending on the project, the host country needs and the capacity of the institution putting forward a project, the target group, beneficiaries and local partners will be identified on a case-by-case basis by the Austrian Chairmanship.

The target groups of the OSCE in its project work are national authorities, CSOs/NGOs, local partner organisations, academia, youth, local business community, religious leaders, any other public service providers ultimately aimed at specific needs of local population.


Activities


The OSCE projects work directly with the 57 OSCE participating States, and/or Partners for Co-operation and for the most part through its executive structures directly with affected communities and populations or host government authorities. Their needs vary from country to country. National ownership and using national systems and potentials are key components in project design, in order to not duplicate work and target the specific needs of the host country. Through its wide network of field presences, executive structures and independent institutions, the body of analytical and contextual documents on specific issues and the implementation of commitments is constantly being used assessed, analysed and drawn upon to address them in specific project interventions.


Context


This Repository Programme to be funded by ADA provides the OSCE Austrian Chairmanship to support with extra-budgetary contributions a wide spectrum of projects in all dimensions of security where the OSCE mandates, Austrian Chairmanship Priorities and the Austrian Development Cooperation's Three Year Programme (2016-2018) meet. This Repository Programme as an intervention is happening against the background of eroding trust, an environment of declining global security unity at global level making the higher level strategic objectives of the Programme more important than ever.

project number 8348-00/2017
source of funding OEZA
sector Andere multisektorielle Maßnahmen
tied
modality Project-type interventions
marker Gender: 1, Democracy: 1
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.