Monitoring, Evaluation and Smart Indicators in EU Funds 2021-2027: How to avoid the problems and threats.

You’ll develop an understanding of the linkages between objectives and indicators at programma and project level, and graps the EC’s expectations concerning monitoring and evaluation in order to ensure EU funded operations are effective and efficient.
  • 25-26 November 2024
  • Warsaw, Poland
  • Regular -> 1399 EUR (excl. VAT)
  • Early booking -> 1299 EUR (excl. VAT) – no later than one month prior the event
  • Group offer -> 999 EUR (excl. VAT) – minimum 4 people per institution

Overview

The responsibility of Authorities (e.g. Managing Authorities, Intermediate Bodies,…) that manage European funds is not only to set up high quality project appraisal systems in order to select the most promising interventions. Once selected, these Authorities need to find out to what extent and/or how these interventions actually make a difference. Hence the need for effective monitoring and evaluation systems. In order to be effective, Authorities need to determine exactly what they are trying to achieve and what the most appropriate ways are to measure this. The seminar will devote ample attention to what sound measurement really means, both from the point of view of the measure itself as well as the diverse ways to collect and analyse the associated data.

 

What will you learn

  • How to meet EC requirements for monitoring and evaluation
  • The difference between monitoring, evaluation and audit
  • How to create programme specific indicators
  • The pitfalls of target setting and managing by measures
  • The limitations of monitoring and why evaluation is needed to address this
  • The various methodologies to assess impact of interventions: counterfactuals versus theory based
  • Data requirements for the various evaluation methods
The Conference will take place in vibrant Warsaw.
Westin Warsaw, al. Jana Pawła II 21, 00-854 Warsaw
Day 1:

9:00-9:30  Introduction

9:30-10:00 The difference between monitoring, evaluation and audit

10:00-10:30 What to measure?

  • Intervention logic and theory of change
  • Common indicators versus programme specific indicators10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-12:30 Constructing outcome measures specifically for your intervention

  • Different kinds of measures for different purposes: facts, behaviors, attitudes
  • Using measurement scales
    • Typology: Likert scale, Guttman scale, Thurstone Scale, Semantic Differential,…
    • How to construct them
    • How to assess their validity and reliability

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 How to collect the data

  • Dis/advantages of diverse data collection methods: questionnaires, interviews, observation
  • How to assess the quality of a questionnaire
  • Using existing measurement instruments
  • Meeting EC requirements for data collection

14:30-14:45 Coffee break

14.45-16:30 Target setting

  • Various approaches to target setting for the different parts of the intervention logic
  • Pitfalls of managing with targets
  • How evaluation addresses the shortcomings of monitoring

 

Day 2

9:00-9:30: the universe of impact evaluation

  • Common designs that cannot tell you anything about impact
  • Scientific approaches:
    • Counterfactual evaluation using quasi-experimental designs
    • Theory based evaluation using (multiple) case study designs

 

9:30-10:45: Counterfactuals

  • The gold standard: Randomised Controlled Trials
  • Propensity score matching

 

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00: Counterfactuals continued

  • Difference in difference
  • Regression discontinuity
  • Other designs

 

12:00-13:00: lunch

13:00 Theory based approaches

  • Process tracing
  • ESIF example

 

14:15-14:30 Coffee break

14:30-15:45 Theory based approaches continued

  • Congruence analysis
  • Qualitative comparative analysis
  • ESIF example

 

15: 45-16:30 Relating contribution analysis and realist evaluation to scientific designs

Expert

Benedict Wauters is currently the director responsible for European Programmes in the Ministry of Labour in Flanders (Belgium). He has worked for more than twenty years as a civil servant, consultant (Deloitte Consulting in Belgium, Policy Research Corporation in the Netherlands) and independent expert, in/for multilateral public institutions (e.g. United Nations, OECD, European Commission), regional and national government departments (e.g. Dutch ministry of foreign affairs, Dutch ministry of transport, Polish ministry of regional development, the French Region of Nord-Pas-De-Calais and the Belgian Regional Governments of Flanders, Brussels and Wallonie), local government (e.g. City of Antwerp) as well as NGOs and public corporations . He has written several books focused on EU fundings and public sector governance

Benedict Wauters

Director responsible for European Programmes in the Ministry of Labour in Flanders (Belgium)

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Warsaw, Poland

This course will take place in the vibrant city of Warsaw, providing an inspiring backdrop for an immersive learning experience.

 

Next to the training materials the training fee is covering:
a) the catering during the training (3 coffee breaks and a lunch every day);
b) the walking tour in a good company in Warsaw (the evening of the first day of the training);
c) delicious diner;
d) family photo and some souvenirs for active participants.

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