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Stefan T. Senior Monitoring Expert
Last update: Nov 26, 2024
Details
Citizenships:
North Macedonia
Languages:
Croatian, English
Highest Degree:
Bachelors
Experience:
32 years
Salary:
Countries:
Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Israel, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Palestine / West Bank & Gaza, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine
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About
- 30 years ofexperience in EU development cooperation in: 1) Social Welfare Services, Social Economy, Employment and Education; 2) Fiscal Decentralisation and Local Economic Development; and 3) Public Administration Reform, Public Financial Management and Macroeconomics;
- Senior Project Manager of 75 Technical Assistance and development projects (CARDS, IPA) in EU Institutions in Western Balkans; development of strategic and programming documents; preparation of project TOR and design of LFMs at project, sector and annual programme level; quality control of progress reports Reports of TA Contracts; capacity building to ministries and municipalities for strategic planning, programming and implementation of EU assistance; establishment of comprehensive monitoring systems; design of internal IT-based monitoring systems; (EU Delegation, European Agency for Reconstruction - EAR, DG ECHO) (1993 – 2009);
- Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Expert and ROM Mission Leader - working on 4 Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) contracts covering Enlargement, Western Balkans and Turkey and ENI countries; in charge of field missions with teams of monitors; Quality Control of Monitoring Reports; Trainingof junior experts on monitoring methodologies; Setting up of monitoring systemsincluding preparation of Progress Reports incorporating Logical Framework Matrixes and contract budgeting for DG ECHO and European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) (WB6, Turkey, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, West Bank and Gaza Strip 1995 - 2024);
- Project and Programme Intervention Logic Design Expert - support to EC Services in Brussels (DG NEAR) and assisting the EU Delegations in the Western Balkans and ENI countries in migrationtowards the OPSYS system ; Support to EC Services in Brussels (DG NEAR) in development of LFMs and their Quality Control; Results Reporting and Result Data Collection – improvement of indicators and assisting the future programming cycles of IPA III; Trainingof the staff of EC Services on monitoring methodologies and establishment of monitoring systems (EC DG NEAR, EU Delegatiuons in WB6 2015 – 2023);
- Project Manager Programming and Monitoring in the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR), responsible for quality control at design stage of all in-house project TOR designs, including LFMs; Training to ministries and implementing partners on establishment and improvement of monitoring systems; design of internal IT-based monitoring system; (North Macedonia 2006-2007);
- Setting up of monitoring systems including preparation of Progress Reports incorporating Logical Framework Matrixes and contract budgeting for DG ECHO; performing field monitoring visits and producing monitoring reports (North Macedonia 1993 - 2003);
- Project managerPublic Administration Reform (PAR) and Public Finance Management (PFM)sector projects at both central and municipal level as part of the economic governance reform in North Macedonia; transformation of municipal public administration in urban planning, education, and socialwelfare services as part of the economic governance reform; setting up of the IPA decentralised management systems (CFCD and NIPAC) (North Macedonia 2007-2009);
- Project Manager Municipal Development and Fiscal Decentralisation; Management of projects influencing the legislative alignment with regard to transfer of responsibilities from central to local level; Cross-municipal cooperation, Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC); balanced Local Economic Development (LED); Contributing to the strategic planning for the sector; capacity building to the staff of the ministries and municipalities (North Macedonia 2005-2006);
- Programme Manager Socio-economic Development – Technical Assistance including capacity building to Ministry; development of Social Enterpriese models (e. g. social inclusion, local community development, non-formal training and self-employment of vilnerable groups, integration of persons with disabilities into society through employment) (North Macedonia, Serbia, BiH, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania 1993 – 2003);
- Budget Support Expert - performance measurement of the achievement of BS indicators towards the public policy reform national targets; statistical analytics of the national strategic and financial framework; state budget analysis; Public Internal Financial Control (PIFC) (WB6 2022, 2023);
- Strategy and Sector Policy Development Expert - Development of sector strategies and provision of advice in policy creation for IPA programming. Contributing to alignment of national legislative of the Western Balkan countries with the EC Acquis. Production of academic studies such as the Role of the Financial Instruments of the EC in Building of Sustainable Local Economic Development, or the Integration of Innovation Methodologies in the System of Public Institutions in Western Balkan countries (WB6 1995 – 2003);
