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Moving forward with CSP Monitoring Committees
Our recent Thematic Group meeting on Monitoring Committees promoted the coordination of priorities between CSP Managing Authorities, Paying Agencies, National Networks and Monitoring Committees.
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Evaluation workshop: assessing LEADER added value
LEADER stakeholders from around Europe met in Luxembourg last month to share practices on how to assess LEADER added value.
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Evaluation plans as foundations for better CAP assessments
EU Member States must develop an evaluation plan for the new CAP, with this blueprint acting as a key tool to demonstrate impact across all the objectives of the 2023-27 agriculture and rural development policy.
Latest publications
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Use of factors of success in evaluation
These guidelines summarise the main outcomes of the Thematic Working Group on the ''Use of factors of success in evaluation'', and can be used by Member States as a basis for tendering and conducting their evaluations under CAP Strategic Plans.
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Assessment of the progress in implementing the evaluation plans of RDPs 2014-2022. Chapter 2 of the AIRs submitted in 2023
About a third of the evaluations completed in 2022 and documented in the AIRs in 2023 focused on sustainable management of natural resources and initiatives for climate action.
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Latvian communities of ground and rove beetles in differently managed agrocenoses
An evaluation of the impact of the Rural Development Programme's (RDP) organic farming measure (M11) on the biodiversity of beetles in Latvia.