Promoting the usa of ESI Funds for Roma inclusion

Using different funds to promote Roma inclusion

4.3. ESF and ERDF funds working together:

multi-fund OPs and complementarity between OPs

A majority of countries

(10 out of 14)

plan to use both ESF and ERDF funds.

Three

options are used:

Single-fund OP (ESF/ERDF) supporting actions eligible under the other fund.

According to Article 98 of the Common Provisions Regulations

“The ERDF and

the ESF may finance, in a complementary manner and subject to a limit of 10

% of Union funding for each priority axis of an operational programme, a part of

an operation for which the costs are eligible for support from the other Fund on

the basis of eligibility rules applied to that Fund, provided that such costs are

necessary for the satisfactory implementation of the operation and are directly

linked to it.”

This is an option for OPs that only include one fund- whether they

plan complementing their interventions with those of another OP or not.

For example, the

Polish

Knowledge, Education, Development OP

, only funded by ESF,

plans to use this option to extend the catalogue of expenditure co-financed from the ESF to

include eligible costs under the ERDF.

Including both funds within the same OP

(multi-fund OP). Several of the

OPs identified foresee the use of both ESF and ERDF funds (in some cases

in combination with other funds, notably YEI). However, in many cases, a

number of aspects remain unclear, notably whether the different funds will be

used in a complementary manner or for separate actions, and, should there be

complementarity of funds, how it will be applied in practice and whether it will

concern Roma inclusion interventions or only other types of actions.

The multi-fund

Research, Development and Education OP

of the

Czech Republic

combines

ESF and ERDF funds in the context of the so-called ‘coordinated approach to socially

excluded localities’.

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