WORKING WITH DG ECHO AS AN NGO PARTNER | 2021 - 2027
INTERIM REPORT
The submission of interim report will not affect the threshold of the open amount.
Periodic reporting is only a new terminology in the MGA to refer to reporting linked to payments. It does not impact the way DG ECHO works.
As soon as the Partner becomes aware of any corrupt, fraudulent, collusive or coercive practice or breach of the grant agreement, it has to inform immediately DG ECHO by email to echo-reportfraud@ec.europa.eu using the form published in the ECHO Partners’ Website.
The continuous reporting refers to any reporting which is not linked to a payment (e.g. interim reports). Both continuous and periodic final report have a narrative part which
focuses on the implementation of the Action.
As a general rule, the interim report is not required for Actions with a duration of less than 10 months, unless it is operationally justified (e.g. no possibility for ECHO to monitor the implementation of the action or in case of remote management of the Project). For longer Actions, the indicative reporting schedule is the following:
|
Duration of the action in months |
IR after month |
IR after month |
IR after month |
|
< 10 |
- |
- |
- |
|
11 and 12 |
8 or 9 |
- |
- |
|
18 |
9 |
- |
- |
|
24 |
9 |
18 |
- |
|
36 |
9 |
18 |
30 |
When the Partner requests an extension of the Project duration (e.g. from 12 months to 24), ECHO may deem necessary (an) extra IR(s) as per the table above. This should be confirmed with the Desk Officer at modification request stage and will be reflected in the Commission letter accepting the amendment – should this entail both a change in the submission date of the IR or the addition of new IR(s). Being this a consequential change linked to the upstream request submitted by the Partner (extension of the duration of the action), please consider that the agreement of the Partner on the new reporting schedule, will not be explicitly requested – as it was the case under the FPA2014.
