Marta Rey
Articles by Marta Rey on running Technical Assistance Facilities.
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Marta Rey
Marta Rey writes on the expertise side of technical assistance: how organisations build and maintain reusable expert rosters, structure calls for expertise, evaluate expert performance, and track financial commitments across programmes. Her articles also cover results-based reporting for EU-funded programmes and the demands of peer-to-peer cooperation models — drawing on applied experience with the mobilisation workflows that connect expert selection to delivery accountability.
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What a Structured Expert Profile Contains — and Why It Isn't a CV
A CV tells you what an expert claims to offer. A structured profile tells you what they have delivered, how they have been evaluated, and what they are available for next. Here is what that distinction means in practice.
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Inside a TA Request Record: The Unit of Accountability
A request in a Technical Assistance Facility is not an email. It is a structured record that carries the decision trail from submission to completion — and that record is the basis for everything that follows.
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Self-Service for Experts and Partners: Shifting Registration Where It Belongs
When experts and partner focal points can register and maintain their own profiles, the programme team stops being a data-entry intermediary. Here is why that shift matters operationally — and what it requires of the system.
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Financial Tracking in a TA Operation: Where the Cost Was Incurred
Budget lines, funding sources, obligations and corrections recorded at the level where the cost is incurred — then aggregated upward. Here is why that sequence matters for donor accountability.
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Performance Evaluation: Making the Roster Smarter With Every Assignment
Every expert assignment is an opportunity to improve the next one. Here is why structured performance evaluation is not a formality but the mechanism that makes a roster compound in value.
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Role-Bound Accountability: Who Creates, Who Validates, Who Is Informed
In a multi-partner TA facility, who may do what is not just a security question — it is the operational question. Here is why role-bound accountability has to be structural, not procedural.
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Building a Reusable Expert Roster: Expertise as a Durable Asset
An expert roster rebuilt from scratch each cycle is expertise that evaporates. Here is what makes a roster genuinely reusable — and why the difference matters more than it appears.
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Results-Based Reporting for EU-Funded Programmes, Without the Manual Grind
Donor reporting shouldn't take days of manual consolidation. Here is how results-based management works in practice and how live operational data turns reporting from an event into an output.
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Peer-to-Peer Cooperation and What It Demands of Your Operations
EU peer-to-peer cooperation mobilises public-sector expertise between institutions. It is powerful — and operationally demanding. Here is what the model asks of the facility that runs it.
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Practical guidance for TA Facility teams
This archive collects 9 articles published between 8 May 2026 and 13 October 2026.
These Articles by Marta Rey cover the operational decisions that Technical Assistance Facilities face day to day — structuring requests, mobilising expertise competitively, tracking working and mission days, monitoring results against the logframe, and producing audit-ready donor reports. Each article is grounded in how TA Facilities actually operate rather than adapted from generic project-management advice.
ZeePMT is built around the same operational patterns: a single connected system that takes a facility from request intake through expert assignment, action planning, delivery tracking and donor reporting — hosted in Europe, GDPR-aligned by default, and purpose-built for the organisations that run EU-funded technical assistance. Browse all field notes or request a walkthrough.
Who writes these
Articles come from the ZeePMT product and operations team and from practitioners with direct experience running Technical Assistance Facilities — no generic business content, no adapted project-management advice.
What you will find
Request management, expert mobilisation, calls for expertise, working-day and mission-day tracking, results-based monitoring, donor reporting, GDPR compliance and EU programme governance.