EQUAL - Final report - eng - navreme

EVALUATION OF CIP EQUAL TRANSNATIONAL CO-OPERATION PRINCIPLE
from the European Commission that sets up the conditions, under which an organisation may be
excluded from the possibility to obtain public funds redistributed by the Commission, namely
either for ever (in case of very serious wrongful acts) or for the period of five years (in case of
minor wrongful acts).
• We propose to clarify contingent role the managing authority may play in mainstreaming already
in the stage of preparation and implementation of the projects and to solve all the elements of
dissemination and mainstreaming in time within the framework of the projects.
• One of the aspects of sustainability is also the issue of maintaining and development of the knowhow
developed by the organisations, the bearers of which are concrete employees. If the project
termination means loss of these people, it is partially also the loss of the created know-how. The
activities aiming at further development of the created know-how should thus take account also of
the concrete people, who are its bearers: the managing authority should be able to include them
in consequential programmes (lobbying at national and European level, seminars and the like).
7.2.6 Monitoring and evaluation
• It is necessary to help the projects to be able to use the monitoring and evaluation tools for
their own quality management and the project cycle management.
• It is necessary to modify the methodological aids, to focus the educational and training
activities of MA on this area for purpose of elucidation of the actual significance of monitoring
and evaluation, how to order and implement them (including allocation of appropriate
capacities already when drawing up the project’s plan and budget), how to assess their
quality (especially in case of ordering external evaluations and management of internal
evaluations) and how to use them well for the management itself.
• Monitoring should serve also for comparisons, aggregation for certain areas (the thematic or
regional viewpoint suggests itself), programme management (setting priorities), as the case
may be as a tool for control, whether the same products do not come into existence in a
parallel manner or if doubled financing of activities or outputs does not occur. In the first
stage, it is necessary to review the setting of monitoring indicators so that their fulfilment
would really reflect the reality and could thus serve for further decision-making at the level of
the project and of the programme. The project and above all the programme level should
have the possibility to interfere with the monitoring system setting in such a way that it would
serve really for the above-mentioned purposes. In the second stage it is necessary to consider
systemic solution of the monitoring in such a way that it would offer the necessary
aggregations, comparisons and following of duplicities/similarities in projects.
• As regards the evaluations, both a scale of various evaluation tools, types of evaluations and
also thematic orientation of the evaluations is offered. It is necessary to know these
possibilities and to select them suitably with the respect to the purpose and expectations the
evaluation shall fulfil. At the project level, it is recommended to work with ongoing evaluation
in sophisticated way, at the programme level it proved useful to combine more types of
evaluations that may be, moreover, classified according to thematic areas.
• Contingent transnational solving of monitoring and evaluation must be built on transnational
cooperation at the level of the managing authorities and specification of the assignment for
monitoring/evaluation from the position of the given group of countries, namely at the level of
comparisons (of similarities or, on the contrary, of differences) in it how the individual accents
are defined in the priorities of the thematic (intervention) areas in the given countries, in a
wider context of the European Employment Strategy. Setting of such cooperation must come
out from agreements that will define competencies of the individual actors, responsibility for
system administration and sharing costs connected with its development and operation.
• It is necessary to draw up an assignment for a transnational information system and to
negotiate competencies, to create a concrete draft of functionalities and system
administration and of course, to negotiate consent of the countries concerned. It is necessary
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