Grants talk:APG/Funds Dissemination Committee/Ombudsperson annual report - 2012-2013

Thanks Susann for a most professional, interesting and helpful report! As a complement I would like to share one of my insights.

The process of the central deliberation is designed to come to a common consensus over a figure for the fund to be given to an entity. It is not designed though to come to a common agreement of the reasons for this figure, ie what was the key strength and weakness in the proposal. What is published is just some of the key issues that is raised during the deliberation in order to find a common number. And in some ways this is the beauty of the process. I could think one of the program are too ambitious, while my collegue disagree, while think the admin overhead is too high, where I disagree. But we agree on the number that should be given!

One of the strongest feedbacks from the applying entities is that they want more extensive feedback on their proposal (which you also mention in your report), which I fully sympatize with. But as explained above, the process does not really allow for us to give an extensive feedback on this.Anders Wennersten (talk) 03:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)