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• The evaluation of innovation in RDPs 2014- 2020
• Farm level indicators for new topics in policy evaluation
• What evaluators in Latvia are learning from the 2017 AIR

The aim of the study was to analyse whether the objectives of the RDP 2014-2020 programme related to the knowledge transfer system can be achieved.

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• Assessing RDP effects on achieving balanced territorial development of rural economies and communities
• New technologies for monitoring agricultural activity: New IACs Vision in action (NIVA) project
• Estimating impacts of EU RDP support through a regional quasi-experimental approach

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The evaluation study ‘Evaluation of the poorly accessed measures within the RDP 2014-2020’ had as general objective the realisation of an evaluation study regarding the identification of the measures within the RDP 2014-2020 that were less accessed, the identification of the causes that determined their poor access, as well as ways, proposals and strategies to improve the implementation of poorly accessed measures and the RDP 2014-2020 programme as a whole.

This report looks to:

• assess the impact of Environmental Stewardship (ES) on landscape character and quality in selected areas to be agreed with Natural England at the inception of the contract;

• allow potential comparative research into landscape change over time on holdings where agri-environment agreements cease;

• further develop the survey work undertaken during 2014 to provide a comprehensive baseline to underpin the future monitoring of the landscape outcomes of both ES and CS schemes. This will involve utilising field monitoring techniques developed by ‘BD5303 (Annex 2) and further refined during 2014 in a rapid field survey approach; to propose any further refinements to the rapid assessment methodology where these are identified including provision of recommendations for improvements to future field work undertaken in terms of logistics, potential for co-ordination with other survey teams, recording and reporting mechanisms;

• analyse the field survey results and compare findings with those of the 2014 survey, BD5303 and the NCA threshold results of the LM0429 project (LM0429)

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• Evaluation Activities in 2019
• Towards the New Delivery Model: From the Croatian National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy to the country’s CAP Strategic Plan
• Using evaluations as a way for strategic learning: Interview with the Lithuanian NRN
• The Eleventh Good Practice Workshop: Appraising the intervention strategies under the CAP: experiences and outlook

This report summarises the major outcomes of the Good Practice Workshop, “Targeted data management for evidence based evaluation of RDPs 2014-2020”, which took place on 5 - 6 December 2016 in Bordeaux, France. This Good Practice Workshop provided a forum for the discussion and exchange of practices used in different RDPs in 2014-2020. The workshop was hosted by the Region Nouvelle Aquitaine and was well attended by more than 60 participants.

This Good Practice Workshop provided a forum for Managing Authorities, Paying Agencies, LAG-representatives, data providers and evaluators, to:

• discuss the approaches for data management in RDPs 2014-2020;
• exchange on the availability and quality of the data to be used for the AIR to be submitted in 2017 and beyond;
• reflect about potential data gaps and bottlenecks in data management in order to find solutions to overcome them.

Case studies from France, Finland, Italy, Austria and Denmark were presented during this workshop and are summarised in this report.

This report covers the evaluation of the EAFRD support measure ‘Individual company advice (EB)’ in the 2014-2020 programmes of Lower Saxony and Bremen for the first award period.

This report summarises the major outcomes of the Good Practice Workshop (GPW), “National Rural Networks’ (NRNs) support to the evaluation of RDPs”, which took place on 30 November – 1 December in Athens (Greece).

The aim of this workshop was to explore the possible activities of NRNs in supporting the evaluation of RDPs throughout the evaluation cycle. This workshop provided a space for the exchange of experiences on how NRNs can support building evaluation capacities and raising awareness on evaluation. Furthermore, participants discussed challenges and developed recommendations for the more efficient use of NRN resources in supporting RDP evaluations.

This workshop brought together evaluators, Managing Authorities, NRNs, EC representatives, researchers, evaluators, rural development stakeholders and members of the Evaluation Helpdesk team.

Practical examples from the Italian and Portugese NRNs as well as poster presentations from Germany, France, Latvia, Poland and Estonia were presented during this workshop and are summarised in this report.

Since 2016, the range of water protection advice, which was previously restricted to drinking water catchment areas, has been extended to areas that are in a poor chemical condition according to the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The WFD advice is aimed at agricultural businesses and is free of charge for them. The evaluation shows that the WFD advice is organizationally and structurally targeted.