Evaluation Findings
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Evaluation Findings

Results from an evaluation are based on evidence and provide insights into how to better design and implement policies in future.

Latest news

Building of Parliament in Budapest
24 Feb 2025

Evaluating CAP simplification: Member States are embracing the challenge within CAP Strategic Plans

The report from the eighth Good Practice Workshop in Budapest offers insights on how to improve the assessment of administrative burden and overregulation.

  • Evaluation
Aerial view. Small european rural village. Blue winding river.
16 Sep 2024

Understanding LEADER's added value

A new set of guidelines from the EU CAP Network are available to help Local Action Groups and Managing Authorities assess the added value of LEADER.

  • Evaluation
A rural community showing traditional buildings and countryside in Spain
13 Sep 2024

LEADER impact report on balanced territorial development

A recently published European Commission evaluation exploring LEADER impacts on balanced territorial development shows LAGs created nearly 60 000 jobs and much more during the previous funding period.

  • Evaluation

Latest publications

Assessment of the progress in implementing the Evaluation Plans of RDPs 2014-2022
Reports |

Assessment of the progress in implementing the Evaluation Plans of RDPs 2014-2022. Chapter 2 of the AIRs submitted in 2024

This summary report outlines the progress made in 2023 by EU Member States and the UK in implementing the evaluation plans of 115 Rural Development Programmes, highlighting trends, key findings and completed evaluations.

  • Evaluation
Report - Generational Renewal in the Agricultural Sector and Young Farmers
Evaluation Expert Insights |

Generational renewal in the agricultural sector and young farmers

A deep dive into the assessment of barriers to entering the agricultural sector and support for young farmers through the findings of Member States' evaluations.  

  • Evaluation
CAP Evaluation Insights: climate change
Evaluation Expert Insights |

CAP Evaluation Insights: climate change

This publication presents findings identified from Member States’ CAP evaluations in relation to climate change mitigation and adaptation. It analyses challenges commonly confronted when assessing climate change and provides ideas on how to overcome these.

  • Evaluation