Rebecca Rumbul
Research student
Current research
How do institutional and network factors affect the distribution of ESF funding in Wales? And how does this affect the composition of ESF Partnerships?
Cross-sectoral partnership is increasingly viewed by the statutory sector as the ideal model for designing and delivering services. Indeed, partnership with the statutory sector is a necessity for voluntary organisations in Wales to benefit from EU funding under the European Social Fund (ESF), one of the largest funds in Europe and the result of years of design and management from EU level down to member state and regional government level. How then, do institutional and network factors influence how these potentially lucrative funds are awarded to these project partnerships? And how have these factors shaped the membership of these partnerships?
This study will explore how best to answer this question using a case study approach, proposing a theoretical framework for explaining how these institutional and network factors impact upon the process of the funding programme design through to the award of the funding to individual projects. It will suggest that these factors combine to affect the ability of the wider voluntary sector to engage with the ESF funds, and question whether this is why it appears that it is always the same organisations that are successful in partnering with the statutory sector.
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