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National evaluation conferenceNational evaluation conference
Marielle RichéEvaluation unit, DG REGIO
Bucharest, 18 February 2009
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Evaluation requirements in the context of Structural Instruments
• Tool to judge, to learn, to improve programmes management, to communicate ?
• Evaluation and monitoring
• Contribution to the political debate
• Capacity building is key
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Evaluation requirements in the context of Structural Instruments
• Art 47: improve the quality, effectiveness, consistency of the strategy and implementation of OPs
• Art 48: the MS shall carry out evaluations linked to the monitoring of OPs in particular where significant departure from the goals
• Art 49: Ex post will examine the effectiveness, efficiency, impact, factors of success or failure, will identify good practice.
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• Tool to judge (effectiveness, efficiency, relevance etc.): accountability for public money
• Tool to understand (trends, challenges, needs, relevance of programmes) and to learn what works, for what kind of activity, in which context
• Tool to improve programmes implementation (link with monitoring, involvement of stakeholders - partnership art. 11), and communication
Role of evaluation in programming period 2007-2013
Role of evaluation in programming period 2007-2013
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Evaluation and monitoring
•Link reinforced in New Regulation: use of evaluation to help achieve expected results•Evaluation needs good data- Output indicators given by monitoring systems- Result indicators needs more work to design and collect- Impact indicators…
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Contributes to the on-going political debate
Under pressure to show results to European Parliament and Council: we need you !•Core indicators: - Set of indicators that should be used in all programmes where appropriate - Designed for use by Commission: only possibility to aggregate data at European level - Not always properly reported
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• External capacity building: - create an evaluation market, - design evaluation courses
• Internal capacity building: - train policy practitioners, - organise exchange of experience, seminars etc.
• European capacity building: conference on evaluation methods, Warsaw, 30 November/1st December (tbc)
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