Impact assessment of rural development programmes in view of post 2006 rural development policy

Final report
November 2004

This study has been financed by the Commission of the European Union. The conclusions, recommendations and opinions presented in this report reflect the opinion of the consultant and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Commission.

Judgement on the quality of the evaluation report [pdf]

Full text [pdf, 800 KB]

Executive summary [pdf ]

1: Introduction  [pdf]

2: Overview of rural development measures [pdf]

3: Method of approach  [pdf]

4: Overview of programmes and financial information [pdf]

5: Analysis against the common evaluation questions [pdf]

6: Assessment against wider policy issues [pdf]

7: Overall conclusions and recommendations [pdf]

Annex 1: Pro-forma for reviewing RDP and Objective 1 & 2 mid-term evaluation reports [pdf]

Annex 2: Financial information [pdf]

Annex 3: References [pdf]