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3. EVALUATION OBJECTIVES AND METHODS
3 EVALUATION OBJECTIVES AND METHODS
| 3 | EVALUATION OBJECTIVES AND METHODS |
CIP EQUAL is an independent
form of aid from the structural funds that supports development and
promotion of new approaches to solving of inequalities and discrimination
at work and access to employment. Its sense is to supplement other programmes
contributing to achieving the objectives of EES and to serve as an innovative
laboratory for development and promotion of new tools, while those that
will prove useful will be supported further within the framework of
the main forms of aid from the ESF during the following programming
period. CIP EQUAL differed from the main forms of aid from the ESF in
the past periods among others by the principle of transnational cooperation.
Thus in the course of the 2007–2013 programming period also selected
CIP EQUAL principles will be supported within the framework of the
ESF programmes on cross-sectoral basis for the very first time.
To be specific, the principles of innovativeness and transnational
cooperation are concerned besides the partnership principle. It
was decided on cross-sectoral
support of these principles together with the EU Member States and the
European Commission representatives on the basis of the experience with
the CIP EQUAL implementation in individual EU Member States, therefore
among others the documents, on which this decision was based, were used
for preparation of the evaluation strategy.
To be specific, this
experience is transposed in OP LZZ, in which the transnational cooperation
is included in the
form of priority axes; Priority axis 5a
Transnational Cooperation (Convergence) and Priority axis 5b Transnational
Cooperation (Regional Competitiveness and Employment) are concerned.
The global objective of these two priority axes is intensification
of transnational cooperation
in the
area of human resources
development and employment,
the specific objective is then 1) to increase effectiveness of strategies
and policies in the area of human resources and employment and 2) development
of partnerships, pacts and initiatives in the area of human resources
and employment.
The transnational
cooperation is appreciated above all for its potential:
- to verify, strengthen or improve the quality of the drafts of policies and strategies in elimination of inequalities in the labour market;
- to increase knowledge, insight and professional background when searching for and rectification of causes of discrimination and inequalities in the labour market;
- to obtain, share, transfer and disseminate knowledge, experience, contacts and good practice;
- to build a sound basis for transnational comparison;
- to create networks of actors, who assist to solve the given issues, including synergic effects connected with it;
- to build the capacities of the participating organisations and bodies at regional and national level;
- to increase the impact of the implemented projects and increase the effectiveness of the ESF implementation at local, regional and national level;
- to increase efficiency and quality of project management and implementation;
- to improve the quality of the outputs from projects;
- to increase effectiveness of the expended funds by means of utilisation of the solutions already invented abroad thanks to inclusion of experience, credit and professional knowledge of foreign partners.
Within the framework
of OP LZZ, it is possible to fulfil the transnational cooperation principle
either at the level of separate projects directly based on the transnational
cooperation but also horizontally, thus the transnational cooperation
principle should apply in each of the OP LZZ financed projects if it
increases its effectiveness and quality. It is assumed that fulfilment
of the transnational cooperation principle will enable to achieve still
better results of individual projects than those that would be able
to be achieved without its application.
All these starting points
and all these assumptions were included in the strategy of evaluation
of the CIP EQUAL transnational cooperation principle. The evaluation
ranges within the framework defined in this way and follows up with
the outputs of the previous evaluations and Final Reports
(respective framework documents, reports and studies are mentioned in
the list of the sources used). With regard to the requirement of
follow-up and comparability of the CIP EQUAL evaluations, the standard
methodology of evaluation was used Navreme Boheme, s.r.o., uses
for other evaluations commissioned by the European Commission and that
is recommended to the CIP EQUAL evaluators.
- Referred by:
- 0.3 List of abbreviations
- 5.5 Monitoring and evaluation