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 EQUALevaluation stipulated by the
European Commission. We have numbered the
general objectives of the CIP EQUALevaluation for we use the numbers
of the objectives afterwards for reference in the following text:
To assess suitability of
the chosen strategies, future possibility and available impacts of CIP
EQUAL;
To identify and assess the
added value of CIP EQUAL to the existing tools and policies in the labour
market;
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;
To assess, to which extent
CIP EQUAL succeeded in inclusion of its results into national policies
and actions and into the ESF mainstreaming programmes;
To facilitate process of
learning among all national bodies concerned;
To contribute to creation
of expert capacities;
To enable utilisation of
the acquired knowledge in the following programming period;
To facilitate comparability
of the CIP EQUALevaluation results at the level of the whole EU;
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 EQUALtransnational cooperation principle, which we understand as a partial
one in this respect:
To analyse the practice
of the existing transnational partnerships within the framework of DPCIP EQUAL;
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;
To formulate particular
practical recommendations for implementation of the transnational cooperation
for the DP members;
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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