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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.
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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

Evaluation frameworks viewed as critical foundation for future CAP evaluation plans
70 participants from 23 EU Member States attended a Good Practice Workshop on designing CAP evaluation plans and highlighted how an evaluation framework can act as the foundation for effective assessments in the future.
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Latest publications

Meta-evaluation of ex post evaluations of Local Development Strategies
This analysis examines 80 evaluation reports on the implementation of Local Development Strategies (LDS) across Poland.
- Evaluation

CAP Evaluation News - April 2025
Assessing results-based interventions: lessons learned and challenges ahead
- Evaluation

Assessment of the progress in implementing the evaluation plans of RDPs 2014-2022. Chapter 2 of the AIRs Submitted in 2022
The summary report is based on an analysis of the Annual Implementation Reports (AIR) for Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) submitted in 2022.
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