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Benefits Of Twinning Programs: The Case Of Macedonia, Jasminka Varnalieva, Violeta Madzova
Benefits Of Twinning Programs: The Case Of Macedonia, Jasminka Varnalieva, Violeta Madzova
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Twinning instrument is used for cooperation and long-term institutional partnership between public administrations of one or more EU Member States and the national authorities of beneficiary country. The purpose of this paper is to examine benefits of twinning programs as instruments for capacity building of public institutions. The paper provides an analysis of the twinning program portfolio in Macedonia per sectors, twinning country providers, and beneficiary institutions. The conclusions are that Macedonian institutions have benefitted a lot from the twinning programs implemented in the last fifteen years; nevertheless, there is still room for significant improvements in the design and implementation …