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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

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

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. 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

Assessing simplification of the CAP for beneficiaries and administrations
This report summarises the conclusions of the Good Practice Workshop that took place in Budapest on 7-8 November 2024 gathering 91 participants from 26 Member States.
- Evaluation

Assessing the added value of LEADER
These guidelines provide insights into the operationalisation of LEADER added value and offer non-binding evaluation framework to assess LEADER added value, manifested through improved social capital, enhanced governance, and increased impacts and results of strategy implementation.
- Evaluation