Joost de Laat (Phd)
Senior Economist
Human Development
Europe and Central Asia
The World Bank
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Current programmes are often just designed to spend.
◦ Objectives vague,
◦ How to recognize success or failure often not clear,
◦ Difference monitoring – evaluation not clear. Shortcomings in
knowledge of evaluation methods
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Consequently, it is difficult to demonstrate value of the policy.
ERDF Guidance Document on Monitoring and Evaluation 2014-2020
• Most important change: emphasis on a clearer articulation of the
policy objectives
• Implement a results oriented policy and move away from an excessive
focus on the absorption of funding
• Second major concern is the better specification of differences in
tasks between monitoring and evaluation
BEHAVIOR
MONITOR
ACTIVITIES
INPUTS
OUTPUTS
IMPACTS ON
OUTCOMES
EVALUATE
EFFECTIVENESS
$$$, activities
Inputs
Finance
Activities
Outputs
Project preparation activities
(4 months)
Project preparation outputs
20 communities selected
European Social
Fund
Identify 20 communities
20 Roma mediators trained on
early childhood education and
monitoring
Human resources
Provide monitoring training to
mediators
State budget
Min. of education –
social inclusion unit
Slovak Education
NGO
Office of the
Plenipotentiary
Hire 20 mediators and provide
early childhood education training
Design monitoring database
Poject implementation
activities (1 year). Mediators:
Identify the vulnerable families
Monitoring database in place
Project implementation
Est. 600 vulnerable families
identified
Est. 600 vulnerable families
received information on ECD
Provide information to these
families on early childhood
Municipal Authorities education parenting techniques
Est. 400 children assisted with
enrolment into preschool
Assist parents enroll children in
nearest preschool
Est. 200 parents received
material needs for their young
children
Preschool staff
Provide material needs to poorest
families
Organize weekly reading clubs for
Roma mothers
Record activities and outputs in
database
Est. 300 mothers participate in
reading clubs
Database with information on
600 families
Impacts on
Outcomes
Improved knowledge on
parenting skills
Increased preschool
enrolment of students from
vulnerable families
Improved socio-emotional
skills of young vulnerable
children
Improved cognitive skills of
young vulnerable children
Improved health outcomes of
young vulnerable children
Lower enrolment into special
primary schools among
vulnerable children
Improved primary and
secondary school
performance
Greater long run employment
outcomes and reduced
poverty
Inputs
Finance
State budget
European Social
Fund
Human resources
Min. of Labor
Public employment
offices
Private/public
training providers
Activities
Project preparation activities
(4 months)
Identify 2000 long-term (at least
2 years) unemployed people
interested in training program
Identify 10 private / public
training providers
Design monitoring database
Poject implementation
activities (1 year).
Offer training vouchers to 2000
unemployed
Training institutes provide 3
months skills trainings to
participating unemployed
Enter data on training
participation and job placement
into database
Outputs
Project preparation outputs
2000 long term unemployed
identified
Contracts signed with 10
private/public training
providers
Monitoring database in place
Project implementation
Impacts on
Outcomes
Improved labor market skills
of current long-term unemployed
Improved employment rates
of current long-term unemployed
Improved wage rates
of current long-term unemployed
Reduced poverty of current
long-term unemployed
2000 vouchers allocated
Est. 1400 long term
unemployed accept voucher
and enlist in training
Greater education enrolment
among children of current longterm enrolment
Est. 1000 long term
unemployed complete training
Improved health outcomes
among children of current longterm unemployed.
Est. 600 long term
unemployed find jobs following
training
Database on participants