Good Practice Workshop
Good Practice Workshop on “From Ongoing Evaluation towards the Evaluation Plan” - Vienna, Austria - 14 May 2012
In the current programming period, the Member States are required to establish a system of ongoing evaluation for each Rural Development Programme as per Art.86 of Council Regulation 1968/2005. The activities shall be reported by the Programme Managing Authorities annually to the Monitoring Committee and included in Annual Progress Reports. The main purpose of the ongoing evaluation is to examine the progress of the programme, draw up proposals for changes to improve its quality and implementation and prepare mid-term and ex post evaluation.
The legal proposal for the Rural Development Regulation for the next programming period 2014-2020 (draft Rural Development Regulation COM(2011) 627/final/2) brings this a step forward in that it states that the Member States will now be required to draw up an evaluation plan which will provide the basis for evaluation during the programming period (Art. 49 of the draft Common Provisions Regulation COM(2011) 615). The Rural Development proposal specifies that the evaluation plan shall be submitted with the draft RDP and that the European Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish the minimum requirements for the evaluation plan.
To provide a platform for discussion and exchange of experiences about ongoing evaluation in the current programming period and draw key lessons for the preparation of evaluation plans – an integral part of the Rural Development Programmes for 2014 – 2020 - a workshop was organised by the Evaluation Helpdesk, in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management Unit, on 14 May 2012.
PRESENTATIONS
Programme [PDF
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Introduction and framing
- Opening and welcome [PDF
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- Legal framework, the state of play and future prospects of the ongoing evaluation in rural development
Leo Maier - European Commission DG Agriculture and Rural Development – Unit L4 Evaluation of measures applicable to agriculture; studies [PDF
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Exchange Session – Sharing experiences in implementing ongoing evaluation in the EU Member States
- “Ongoing evaluations – Experiences from Bulgaria 2007-2010” Morten Kvistgaard evaluator, Denmark[PDF
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- “The governance of ongoing evaluation in Piedmont region”, Roberto Cagliero, evaluator, Italy [PDF
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- “Tasks of the Evaluation Unit – Austria”, Otto Hofer and Karl Ortner, Evaluation Unit, Austria[PDF
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- ‘In house’ ongoing evaluation in Flanders (Belgium), Michael Van Zeebroeck, Department Agriculture and Fisheries, Belgium [PDF
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OUTCOMES
- Newsletter of the Good Practice Workshop "From Ongoing Evaluation towards the Evaluation Plan" - Vienna, Austria - 14 May 2012 [PDF
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OTHER RELATED DOCUMENTATION
- draft Rural Development Regulation COM(2011) 627/final/2
- draft Common Provisions Regulation COM(2011)615
- Synthesis of the Annual Progress Reports for 2010 concerning Ongoing Evaluation, May 2012 ? pp.[PDF
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CONTACT
- For more information: info@ruralevaluation.eu