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3. EVALUATION OBJECTIVES AND METHODS
3.1 Evaluation objectives and strategy of their fulfilment
3.1 Evaluation objectives and strategy of their fulfilment
The partial evaluation of the transnational cooperation principle is related to the general objectives of the CIP EQUAL evaluation stipulated by the European Commission. We have numbered the general objectives of the CIP EQUAL evaluation for we use the numbers of the objectives afterwards for reference in the following text:
  1. To support due course of the CIP EQUAL implementation and management;
  2. To assess suitability of the chosen strategies, future possibility and available impacts of CIP EQUAL;
  3. To identify and assess the added value of CIP EQUAL to the existing tools and policies in the labour market;
  4. To contribute to identification, verification and promoting of suitable practises in implementation of the policy of inclusion and fight against discrimination and inequalities in the labour market;
  5. To assess, to which extent CIP EQUAL succeeded in inclusion of its results into national policies and actions and into the ESF mainstreaming programmes;
  6. To facilitate process of learning among all national bodies concerned;
  7. To contribute to creation of expert capacities;
  8. To enable utilisation of the acquired knowledge in the following programming period;
  9. To facilitate comparability of the CIP EQUAL evaluation results at the level of the whole EU;
  10. To ensure information sources for ex-post evaluation at the EU level that will be carried out by the European Commission.
We have identified the following specific objectives for the evaluation of the CIP EQUAL transnational cooperation principle, which we understand as a partial one in this respect:
  1. To analyse the practice of the existing transnational partnerships within the framework of DP CIP EQUAL;
  2. To identify strengths and weaknesses, potential and risks of the transnational cooperation;
  3. To analyse the wider context of implementation of the transnational cooperation, to identify conditions, under which it arises and develops optimally;
  4. To gather examples of good practice and recommendations;
  5. To collect suggestions from the part of technical and administrative support of the transnational cooperation supported within the ESF framework;
  6. To identify suitable ways of searching for partners and formation of partnerships;
  7. To describe management methods of partnerships;
  8. To identify conditions necessary for realization of the transnational cooperation of the aid recipients from the ESF from the part of technical and administrative support;
  9. To describe principles of evaluation of the quality of the transnational cooperation, namely including verification of tools for self-evaluation of the partnership and management of the partnership networks;
  10. To formulate particular practical recommendations for implementation of the transnational cooperation for the DP members;
  11. To formulate concrete practical recommendations for implementation of the transnational cooperation for the individual levels of the CIP EQUAL implementation structure.
Except for the last objective that is directed directly at the implementation structures in the Czech Republic, all the other objectives relate both to the Czech and foreign reality. Thus the evaluation focused primarily on the assessment of the impact of the transnational cooperation financed from the Czech sources, but these findings were compared with the findings from ten selected EU countries, for the majority of the phenomena being explored has (minimum) European dimension.

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The report is based on source text which is published in ESF Forum and is subject to ESF Forum rules regarding copying, distribution and modification of the text.
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