FYP2 2022-2027

Financial Framework

As VLIR-UOS has entered a new funding cycle with its donor DGD, the VLIR-UOS financial framework is being updated. The financial framework adheres to the Royal Decree of 2016 including all its updates.

A new version of the financial framework is developed, with input from our community, and will provide an updated general financial framework for VLIR-UOS-funded projects.  

It will be published on our website shortly after 30/4/2023. 

Formal Framework

• the law of 19 March 2013 on Belgian Development Cooperation, as amended to date; 
  
  
• the Royal Decree of 11 September 2016 on the Non-Governmental Cooperation, as amended to date, whereby the Royal Decree of 7 October 2021 authorises five-year programmes of institutional actors, among which VLIR, to start on 1 September instead of on 1 January, and to stop on 31 August instead of on 31 December;
  
  
• the Royal Decree of 11 September 2016 on the number of Joint Strategic Frameworks (JSF) of the Non-Governmental Cooperation including their geographical and thematic scope;
  
  
• the Law of 22 May 2003 relating to the organisation of the budget and accountability of the federal state, as amended to date;
  
  
• the approval of the thematic Joint Strategic Framework “Higher Education & Science for Sustainable Development (HES4SD)” of VLIR-UOS, ARES, and ITG by Minister for Development Cooperation Kitir on 7 June 2021;
  
  
• the Ministerial Decree of 7 February 2022 on the Five-Year Programme of VLIR-UOS for the period 2022-2027 (FYP2);
  
  
• the Integrity Charter, drafted on the initiative of the Minister of Development Cooperation and signed by VLIR-UOS on 14 June 2018, mandated to do so by the Bureau UOS, and any operational measures that have been or will be approved by the Bureau UOS;
  
  
• the certification of the monitoring and evaluation system of VLIR-UOS by the “Dienst Bijzondere Evaluatie”, with reference to art. 33 of the Law on Belgian Development Cooperation, on 29 November 2017;
  
  
• the interpretation of the legal framework referred to above, given by the Non-Governmental Cooperation Concertation Committee in the course of the five-year period (2017-2021), as well as all derogations granted by DGD to VLIR-UOS;
  
  
• the VLIR-UOS FYP2 Financial Framework for the respective programmes, governed by the Royal Decree of 11 September 2016, as amended by the Royal Decree of 7 October 2021;
  
  
• the FYP2 Scholarship Amounts for 2022-2027, approved by DGD on 20 April 2022 and translated by VLIR-UOS in the “FYP2 Scholarship Framework”;
  
  
• the Client Assistance Package (CAP) note of 25 January 2022, developed by the VLIR Accounts’ Commissioner in 2020-2021 on the basis of the FYP1 formal framework (subject to modifications following the modification of the FYP2 formal framework), which is part of the Financial Framework;
  
  
• the letter of the Federal Public Service Social Security of 3 March 2014 to VLIR-UOS regarding the social security treatment of mobility scholarships for research scholars who conduct research in Belgium in the context of HES4SD projects;
  
  
• the agreement of 1 July 2015 on interuniversity agreements between VLIR and all Flemish universities relating to the communication on and the financial management and accounting of VLIR-UOS project expenses made by other Flemish universities than the contracting university, as amended by the addendum of 19 March 2021.