FAQs
Frequently asked questions (FAQs) on this website provide answers and explanations for specific issues related to evaluation of Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) for the period 2007-2013. Thus, they are intended as a quick “one-stop-shop tool” for evaluation stakeholders to locate and clarify specific information about key evaluation themes, activities and issues. The FAQs are compiled from these sources:
- Regulations forming the legal basis for the RDPs 2007-2013
- the Handbook on Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF), which is a practical tool developed on the basis of the regulations to guide Member States (MS) towards a more effective system for assessing progress towards Community and national objectives, ensuring the accountability of public spending through RDPs, and improving programme performance
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technical questions received from Member States by the Helpdesk of the Evaluation Expert Network
- feedback from MS through other activities of the Evaluation Expert Network, including: the Evaluation Expert Committee; needs assessments, missions and events attended in MS; analysis and synthesis of the section on ongoing evaluation in the Annual Progress Reports for each RDP;
- FAQs from other guidance developed by the Evaluation Expert Network (e.g. the Guidelines on the Mid-Term Evaluation of RDPs; Working Paper on Value Added Indicators, etc).
The FAQs section is structured according to the following themes and includes links to relevant documents and websites:
- Questions about indicators
- Questions about value added indicators
- Questions about impacts
- Questions about the mid-term evaluation (MTE)
- Questions about Annual Progress Reports (APRs)
- Questions about the availability of evaluation reports
The FAQs section is a dynamic tool, which will be updated and expanded on a regular basis.
Readers are invited to email any further questions relating to evaluation aspects of RDPs to Helpdesk of the Evaluation Expert Network at this address: info@ruralevaluation.eu
