Meta-study on lessons from existing evaluations as an input to the Review of EU spending : Final Report ; January 2008. Evaluation for the European Commission. Contract ABAC-101930
| Alternative title: | Metastudie zu den Lehren aus existierenden Bewertungen als Vorleistung zum Überblick der EU-Ausgaben. Abschlußbericht. Januar 2008 |
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| Year of publication: |
2008
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| Institutions: | Euréval ; Centre for European Evaluation Expertise ; Ramboll Management (contributor) ; Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Haushalt (contributor) |
| Subject: | Bewertung | evaluation | EU | Förderungsprogramm | promotional program | Haushaltsplan | budget document | Haushaltspolitik | budgetary policy |
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Frame, purpose and scope of the study
- Methodological approach
- Methodological limitations
- Structure of this report
- 1. Synthesis of Evaluators’ assessments
- 1.1. Assessment per broad policy area
- 1.1.1. Competitiveness
- 1.1.2. Cohesion
- 1.1.3. Natural resources
- 1.1.4. Citizenship
- 1.1.5. Global partnership
- 1.2. Assessment per evaluation criterion
- 1.2.1. Relevance
- 1.2.2. Coherence
- 1.2.3. European added value
- 1.2.4. Effectiveness
- 1.2.5. Sustainability
- 1.2.6. Efficiency
- 1.2.7. Unintended impacts
- 2. Lessons learned
- 2.1. Designing policies that work
- 2.1.1. Prioritising objectives
- 2.1.2. Integrating cross-cutting issues
- 2.1.3. Formulating achievable strategies
- 2.1.4. Considering the after-policy period from the outset
- 2.2. Ensuring subsidiarity
- 2.2.1. Adding trans-national value
- 2.2.2. Dealing with critical mass
- 2.2.3. Changing systems
- 2.2.4. Securing local relevance
- 2.3. Spending wisely
- 2.3.1. Targeting participants and beneficiaries
- 2.3.2. Avoiding deadweight
- 2.3.3. Leveraging non-budgetary resources
- 2.3.4. Making use of financial engineering
- 2.3.5. Sharing the cost with other levels of government
- 2.4. Seeking results
- 2.4.1. Dealing with the pressure to spend
- 2.4.2. Questioning command-and-control approaches
- 2.4.3. Managing flexibility
- 2.4.4. Considering performance incentives
- 2.4.5. Learning from achievements
- 3. Challenges, solutions and knowledge transfer
- 3.1. Inducing structural changes
- 3.2. Targeting beneficiaries accurately
- 3.3. Decentralising whilst managing associated risks
- 3.4. Focusing on results rather than absorption
- 3.5. Promoting and monitoring leverage
- Using this report
- Appendix A – Database of available reports
- A1 - Identifying the reports
- A2 – Structure of the set of reports
- A3 – Impartiality of the available reports
- A4 - Assessing the potential interest of th
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