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6. DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE OF EVALUATION ACCORDING TO INDIVIDUAL EVALUATION OUTPUTS
6.7 Topic 6: Part of the study focused on the synthesis of the findings from previous parts of the study (part 2)
| 6.7 | Topic 6: Part of the study focused on the synthesis of the findings from previous parts of the study (part 2) |
Subtopics:
Factors of success and
failure, roles, suitability and unsuitability of supporting tools, forms
of announcement of calls, cooperation in monitoring, stage of closure
of projects and possible roles in it.
Partial evaluation
outputs to the second part of topic 6:
The Third Interim Report
(19 September), output No. 5 of the project
Short summary of
the process:
The report was drawn
up as a complex analysis of focus groups and evaluation of processes,
it contained conclusions and recommendations.
Short summary of
partial outputs (basic findings):
This part of the study
focused on the recommendations directed into the area of systemic utilisation
of the selected outputs and results of the projects financed from the ESF,
when it was considered on the one hand when this support should start
(from preparation of the projects till the period of projects’ closure),
and on the other hand how to implement this support. Both the possibilities
of external solution (external agencies) and the means of systemic projects,
where both the support of preparation of strong transnational partnerships
and mainstreaming of outputs and results of their work may be concerned,
were considered. The sense of further utilisation of the projects’
outputs and results consists in it that their quality improves in this
way, the parallel development of similar or same products is eliminated
and mainstreaming is supported significantly. The role of the managing
authority can be seen for example as an administrator of a central platform,
which would present individual outputs of the projects classified –
besides other criteria – according to the target groups. Since the
target groups are given by the respective operational programmes and
further by the orientation of the individual projects actually implemented,
the question then does not consist in who the outputs should be mediated
to, but above all how. The evaluation team’s proposals mentioned for
example information campaigns (including TV spots, billboards and other
means of traditional advertising), Internet advertising and viral marketing
(in general, this is possible to be used for everything, a communication
method is concerned), support to thematic networks with bigger accent
on expert authority, national, as the case may be thematic competitions,
conferences and fairs and further the events specifically focused and
made to measure to concrete target groups.
As regards the models
of financing, common budget sources, revenues, systemic projects, national
projects may be used. As regards the cost factors of the project outputs,
the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) may be included in the project applications;
as regards the systemic and budget means, then the strategic decisions
at the level of ministries are concerned, as the case may be of concrete
operational programmes. The rule is valid that the system of support
to outputs and results of the projects must be transparent at the most
for a selective (not a flat) matter will be obviously concerned. Further,
this system will be introduced newly therefore it will be necessary
at the beginnings of the implementation to verify, whether the support
really achieves the stipulated objectives and quality. Thus the evaluation
will proceed by means of common techniques of social and economical
analysis – namely already at the selection of the projects, in course
of creation of the outputs and also after the termination of the projects
and handover of the outputs – on the basis of data obtained through
monitoring and specific evaluating procedures - on the basis of the
criteria known in advance contained in the operational programmes, in
the calls and, as the case may be also in assignments of systemic/national
projects. But the evaluation methods could be applied also for the decision-making
process itself, which will be necessary before the beginning itself
of the mentioned activities and which will be at the same time highly
determining for setting the indicators of quality/success.
