For the findings necessary
to formulate conclusions and recommendations, such research and evaluation
methods were used so that the selected method would be able to find
sources for the answers to the given evaluation questions most effectively.
The methods, the detailed description of which we mention below, were
aimed at the following target groups:
|
Research / Evaluation
method
|
Acronym of
the method
|
Target group
|
|
Analysis of documents
|
ANAL
|
No target group
|
|
Questionnaire
|
QUE
|
All target groups
|
|
Evaluation visit
|
VIS
|
DP, DP EU, CLIENT
|
|
Evaluation of processes
|
PROC
|
NSS, NSS EU, MA, MA EU
|
|
Focus group
|
FG
|
MA, NSS
|
|
Continual (ongoing)
evaluation
|
CONT
|
Evaluation team
|
|
Case study
|
CASE
|
DP, DP EU
|
|
Structured interview
|
INT
|
EC, POLIT, NSS, NSS EU, EXP
|
|
SWOT
|
SWOT
|
No target group
|
Each of the mentioned
methods is characterised in details below. It is also described at each
method, in which way the respondents were chosen, however, it is valid
in general that they were selected according to the representativeness
rule by means of quota selection.
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