The Community of Saint Martin, as an intermediary body, requests technical assistance appropriations for the financing of expenditure related to the implementation of the ESF global grant. Indeed, axis 13 ‘ESF technical assistance’, which provides for an amount of EUR 688900 for the territory of Saint Martin, is intended to cover all the expenditure of the services involved in the implementation of the ESF axes in order to ensure an effective management, monitoring and control system as well as information and animation close to the citizens and beneficiaries. The Contracting Policy Directorate (CPD) attached to the Community Services Branch of Saint Martin is the managing department of the Global Grant. It carries out all the tasks of management, monitoring and management of operations files. The CPD’s resources allocated to the management of the global grant: Head of Management Unit (1 FTE) Head of Management Unit (1 FTE) ESF Manager assigned to the Management Cell (1 FTE) The Directorate for Financial Affairs and the Management Control Directorate of the Community of Saint Martin are also involved in the implementation of the overall grant.