Evaluation and EQUAL

The evaluation of EQUAL was carried out within the framework of the European Social Fund regulation (see the document General framework and evaluating activities) following the guidelines given for all the Structural Funds.

The evaluation of EQUAL was undertaken at three levels:

  1. At project level (Development Partnership) level, insofar that they had to set up an evaluation process whose results had to be presented to the national managing authority, itself in charge of the analysis of all the projects self-evaluations.
  2. At national level, on the basis of a contract established after a call for tender launched by the managing authority with professional and independent evaluators. The evaluation reports, transmitted to the Commission, followed common specifications included in the national programmes.
  3. At European level, on the basis of a contract established after a call for tender launched by the European Commission with professional and independent evaluators, who extracted the essential facts from the national evaluations and carry out their own research on the basis of specific terms of reference.

The intermediary and 'final' evaluations - covering the EQUAL activities between 2001 and early 2006 - were compulsory. The reports requested at national and European level are completed and available on this page.
In February 2006, a Conference on Evaluation in EQUAL, provided an opportunity to share learning between professional evaluators, EQUAL managing authorities and European Commission (See report).

Available Evaluations
EU Ex-post evaluation of the Community Initiative EQUAL (2000-2006):
Final report
Annexes
EU Synthesis of the Evaluation Reports of the EQUAL Programmes in the EU10 Member States Submitted to the Commission within 2008 and 2009
EU Synthesis of the Evaluation Reports of the EQUAL Programmes in the EUR-10 Member States submitted to the Commission within 2006 and 2007
EU EU wide Evaluation (2001-2006) of the Community Initiative EQUAL:
Volume 1 (EN)
Volume 2: Implementation of EQUAL in the new Member States (EN)
Volume 3: Conclusions et recommendations (EN)
Volume 4: Annexes (EN)
Executive summary (EN) (DE) (FR)
EU Lessons from the evaluation of EQUAL Report on EQUAL Evaluation Conference, Hotel Bedford, Brussels, 23-24 February 2006
AT Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
Mainstreaming Evaluation-2008 (DE)
BEfr Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005 - Executive Summary (EN)
Final Evaluation-2007 (FR)
Volume 1
Volume 2
BEnl Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
Final Evaluation-2007
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Evaluation of Impact- 2007
CZ Interim Evaluation 2005
Final Evaluation-2007 (EN)
Transnational Cooperation and Gender Mainstreaming (EN)
CY Mid-term Evaluation-Executive summary (EN)
Annual Evaluation Reports 2007
DE Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
Final Evaluation-2008-Executive Summary (DE)
Final Evaluation-2008-Full report (DE)
DK Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
EE Interim Evaluation 2005
Final evaluation-2007 (EN)
Evaluation mainstreaming processes and impacts of the EQUAL programme (EN)
Evaluation of the impact of mainstreaming on national and regional processes (EN)
EL Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005 (EL) - Executive Summary (EN)
ES Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005 (ES)
FI Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005 (FI) - Executive Summary (EN)
Final Evaluation 2007-Executive Summary (EN)
FR Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005 - Summary
HU Interim Evaluation 2005
IE Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
IT Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005: Vol I & Vol. II (IT) - Executive Summary (EN)
LT Interim Evaluation 2005
Final report-2007 (LT)
LU Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
Final report-2007 (FR)
LV Interim Evaluation 2005
Final Evaluation 2008-Draft
MT Interim Evaluation 2005
Third Interim Report 2007 (EN)
NL Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
PL Interim Evaluation 2005
Final Report 2008 (EN)
PT Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
SI Interim Evaluation 2005 - Executive Summary (EN)
SK Interim Evaluation 2005
Mid Term Evaluation 2007 (SK)
Mid Term Evaluation 2007-Executive Summary (EN)
SE Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005 (SV) (EN)
UKni Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005
UKgb Mid term Evaluation - Update 2005