Subject: FW: revised logframe
From: "Handley, David" <[email-masked]>
To: Nino Veltauri <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>, Lika Klimiashvili <[email-masked]>, "KOCHISHVILI Nika (EEAS-TBILISI)" <[email-masked]>, "JUODSNUKYTE Jurate (EEAS-TBILISI" <[email-masked]>, "DE MERCEY Colombe (EEAS-TBILISI" <[email-masked]>, "Sapundzhiev, Nikolay" <[email-masked]>, "Duffner, Heinrich" <[email-masked]>, "Moller, Claus Nue" <[email-masked]>, Ana Diakonidze <[email-masked]>, "Kitiashvili Ani ([email-masked])" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 06:48:41 +0000

Dear Ms. Veltauri

I refer to my email of 5 May below, in reply to your initial response to our request for comments on the revised project log frame. We fully appreciate that how busy you and your colleagues are at the current
time, but I would appreciate a very quick reply regarding the two issues covered in my email, namely:

the log frame, which has to be finalized very quickly because the project’s Inception Report cannot be approved without it; and

project planning during the coronavirus pandemic, without which we cannot submit our progress report to the EU Delegation.

It is most important that we obtain agreement on both these issues as a matter of urgency, as we are already overdue for the second Steering Committee meeting of the project, and we also need to show progress
on them especially because the BS review mission will start on 18 May. I sincerely hope that we will be able to discuss and reach agreement on both of these issues very quickly, and look forward to discussing them with you and/or Lika Klimiashvili ASAP. Please
note that my colleagues Heinrich Duffner and Ana Diakonidze are available to advise on these matters in case you wish to consult them before responding to my meeting request.

With best regards

David Handley

DAVID HANDLEY

Team Leader

and Skills Development Expert

_____________________________________________________________________________________________

Technical Assistance to Skills Development for Matching Labour Market Needs in Georgia

An EU-funded project under the Skills4Jobs Programme, Phase 2

Implemented by a Consortium led by GOPA Worldwide Consultants

Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport

4 Sanapiro Str. 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia

Cellphone: +995 595 400 371 (Georgia), +44 (0) 77 6880 7787 (UK)

[email-masked];
[email-masked]

Skype: handleyd

From: Handley, David <[email-masked]>

Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 15:48

To: Nino Veltauri <[email-masked]>

Cc: Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>; Lika Klimiashvili <[email-masked]>; KOCHISHVILI Nika (EEAS-TBILISI) <[email-masked]>; JUODSNUKYTE Jurate (EEAS-TBILISI <[email-masked]>; Duffner, Heinrich <[email-masked]>;
Ana Diakonidze <[email-masked]>; Sapundzhiev, Nikolay <[email-masked]>

Subject: RE: revised logframe

Dear Ms. Veltauri

Thank you for your reaction to the revised log frame which was circulated to project beneficiaries last month and your suggested amendments, and I am sorry to have taken a week in getting back to you on them.
However, this is a rather busy time for all of us.

We had to revise the log frame following some very extensive and quite lengthy discussions with the EU’s ROM Eastern Partnership Quality Assurance team, whom the Delegation consulted on the original draft. There
are newly revised EU standards for log frames and the many deletions and other changes were made on the basis of their advice or instructions. The revised log frame is still a just draft, but it does seem to meet their approval. However, we need to be sure
that the final version also meets the approval of beneficiaries including the MoIDPLHSA and SESA. Unfortunately, some of the deletions which I note that you would like to be reinstated were made at the explicit request of the ROM team.

I suggest that the best way forward now will be for Heinrich Duffner and myself to have a Skype meeting with you and your colleagues to explain the rationale for the changes that ROM team required us to make
and why we made them, and explore how the draft can be improved in a way that satisfies the Ministry and the Agency.

I imagine that DM Barkalaia is extremely busy at the moment handling issues arising from the pandemic and that she may not have time to become involved in this discussion but, if she can, it would be wonderful.

However, as time is now of the essence and we need to get approval for the Inception Report as quickly as possible, I would like to propose a Skype meeting as soon as it can be arranged, with you and (perhaps)
Lika Klimiashvili, to discuss the draft log frame.

In addition, I would also like to follow up on my email to DM Barkalaia of 15 April requesting a Skype meeting to discuss some changes to project implementation arrangements including the timing of some activities,
necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic. These mainly concern re-scheduling some of our support to SESA. In my previous email, I attached a revised implementation schedule prepared by Heinrich but, having seen the Government’s plans for returning to a state
of normalcy in Georgia, it is evident that the proposed changes didn’t go far enough. Can we therefore also include this issue when we meet on Skype?

I look forward to hearing from you soon about these matters.

With best regards

David Handley

DAVID HANDLEY

Team Leader

and Skills Development Expert

_____________________________________________________________________________________________

Technical Assistance to Skills Development for Matching Labour Market Needs in Georgia

An EU-funded project under the Skills4Jobs Programme, Phase 2

Implemented by a Consortium led by GOPA Worldwide Consultants

Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport

4 Sanapiro Str. 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia

Cellphone: +995 595 400 371 (Georgia), +44 (0) 77 6880 7787 (UK)

[email-masked];
[email-masked]

Skype: handleyd

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From: Nino Veltauri <[email-masked]>

Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 14:58

To: Handley, David <[email-masked]>; Duffner, Heinrich <[email-masked]>;
[email-masked]

Cc: Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>; Lika Klimiashvili <[email-masked]>

Subject: revised logframe

Dear all

Please find enclosed the updated log frame revised by us. We made a version where we combined an old indicators, baselines and targets with the new statements suggested by Mr. Handley.

Looking forward for your feedback .

Best Regards

Nino Veltauri