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Rural Development Impacts (RuDI)

Summary: The research aimed to enhance understanding of the social, institutional and capacity-building effects of the different components of rural development policies at both national and regional levels within the 2007 to 2013 programming period, and to identify factors that lead to failure, as well as to learn from best practice examples. The RuDI project looked beyond the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) provided by the EU taking into account the rural development policy cycle as a whole by focusing on the governance structures surrounding design (context of the conception of instruments and operational modes), delivery (modes of transaction and control) and evaluation (timing, procedures etc.).

Overall purpose: The RuDI project aimed to address the question of how to best assess impacts of rural development policies on all levels and across the great diversity of Europe's rural areas.

Results and recommendations: Results and recommendations are in the form of a collection of information materials and conferences (documents available on the project website):

  1. Priorities in RD Policies;
  2. Policy Design;
  3. Policy Delivery & Governance;
  4. Expenditure Analysis; v) CMEF Review; vi) Case Study Sampling;
  5. In-Depth Case Studies;
  6. General information; ix) RuDI Extended Policy Brief.

EAFRD priority area(s) and themes: Competitiveness of agriculture and forestry; Environment and sustainable resource management; Quality of life and economic diversification; Horizontal aspects

Monitoring, Evaluation and assessment of impact, Policy development and analysis.

Main target end users: Policy makers, beneficiary groups.

Project partners: RuDI is a research project of 10 universities and research institutes in 10 European countries – see details https://www.rudi-europe.net/partners.html

Project study regions: The project screens and maps mountain research mainly emanating from Europe but also including wider international research.

Language(s): EN

Funding source: FP7

Start and end date: February 2008 – November 2010

Website: https://www.rudi-europe.net/

Project contact:
RuDI co-ordination: Simone Schiller
ifls - Institute for Rural Development Research
Zeppelinallee 31
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
tel.: +49 69 977 857 77
fax: +49 69 777 784
web: www.rudi-europe.net