Guidelines - Design of evaluation plans

An evaluation plan describes how EU Member States will evaluate their CAP Strategic Plan, as well as how they intend to use subsequent results to improve implementation and future policy making. These guidelines from the European Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP aim to provide minimum and recommended content for evaluation plans that can be further adapted to the needs of EU Member States, during the 2023-27 programming period. They include a description of the key elements of the evaluation plan, taking into account the minimum legal requirements. They also suggest additional content for each section of the evaluation plan, describe the key terms to consider, provide examples of key questions to ask when drafting each section of the evaluation plan and highlight the links between the different sections. The guidelines are complemented by a separate toolbox that includes a detailed description of the proposed working steps for developing each section of the evaluation plan, which can also be found below.