The Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area and Norway funds several programs in different countries and priority areas. In Bulgaria, in the 2009-2014 period, one of the funded programs was called “BG02” and focused on improved integrated management of Marine and Inland Waters.
Fresh Thoughts supported the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water in:
- discussing the programme’s expected outcomes;
- preparing three sets of evaluation criteria related to the programme’s subject area with the Programme Officer. These were part of the evaluation grid published in the calls for proposals and used to rank and select projects; and
- drafting administrative evaluation criteria.
In addition, the project included ad hoc support for implementing the three calls.