Evaluations
Date: 17 dec 2019
Period: 2014-2020
Theme: Business support, Culture, Energy, Environment, Rural development, Tourism, Transport, Urban development, Evaluation, Research and innnovation, Research & Development, Territorial cohesion, Social inclusion, Jobs, Education and Training
Languages: en
This staff working document (SWD) provides an overview of the evaluations undertaken by the Member States and the Commission on the programmes supported by European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds.
The stronger focus on results in the legislation for the 2014-2020 programming period reaffirms the value of evaluation as an important source of evidence on policy achievements and their underlying factors. Evaluation can indicate whether investments have been well designed, whether they are targeted to the objectives and whether they can deliver added value. As such, it can help improve policy design andimplementation in the future.
The 2014-2020 Common Provisions Regulation requires that programmes submitted for adoption are accompanied by an ex ante evaluation, in order to improve their design, and that evaluation plans are drawn up and submitted to the monitoring committees within a year of the programme'sadoption.