Transcript GOVERNMENT OF ROMANIA MINISTRY OF PUBLIC FINANCE …

GOVERNMENT OF ROMANIA
MINISTRY OF PUBLIC FINANCE
MANAGING AUTHORITY FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORT
FRAMEWORK
Evaluation Central Unit
Development of the Evaluation
Community in Romania
Evaluation driver
•Chapter 28 – Financial control
•Chapter 21 – Regional policy
•Political criteria – increasing the
accountability
of
the
Administration; enhancing
formulation
Public
policy
– European Commission
– Civil Society/media
The strategy of public policy
• To develop a simple and efficient system for
formulation of public policies
– Setting the structure and the role of each public
policy document
– Defining the hierarchy between the documents
– Defining the link between national and sectoral
public policies
– Introduction of impact analysis of the public
policies
• It is coordinated by the Secretariat General of
the Government
Raising Awareness
on evaluation
• Action Plan for raising awareness on evaluation
– May – June 2006
– 6 conferences on evaluation for specific target groups
– Focus on utility of evaluation, international
experience with evaluation, EU requirements
concerning evaluation
– The booklet “Evaluation – essential component in the
European process of public interventions formulation
and implementation”
– Questionnaire elaborated and distributed
Private market development
– first steps
•35 potential evaluators selected from local consultancy
companies, universities and NGOs
•Purpose: Romanian organisations in the private,
academic and civil society sectors will be able to, in the
coming years:
tender for evaluation contracts commissioned by the
European Commission, the Ministry of Public Finance,
and other Government Ministries and public bodies
successfully carry out the evaluation contracts to
qualitative standards.
Others to be done in
2006
• Evaluation Working Group for Structural Instruments
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Designing the model of interim evaluation
Steering the ex-ante evaluation of the operational programmes
Evaluation standards
Evaluation procedures, including the setting up of the
evaluation functions inside the managing authorities
• Translation in Romanian and distribution of the Guide
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for evaluation of socio-economic development
programmes
THE NATIONAL EVALUATION STRATEGY
Steps to developing the
National Evaluation
Strategy
Principal stages:
Assessment of the Romanian evaluation culture
(to mid-July)
Engage in consultations with main stakeholders
Drafting the National Evaluation Strategy (based
on best-practice from other MS
Disseminate draft for comment (to end August
Finalise and launch NES (September)
Assessment of the
Romanian evaluation
culture
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Assessment against EU “9+3” criteria (identified in “International Atlas
on Evaluation”). The criteria include:
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Evaluation takes place in many policy domains
There is a supply of domestic evaluators in different discipline
There is a professional organisation of evaluators
There is a degree of institutionalisation of evaluation in Government
There is a degree of institutionalisation of evaluation in Parliament
There is a pluralism of institutions or evaluators performing
evaluations within each policy domain
There is an evaluation function within the Supreme Audit Institution.
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The three additional criteria for candidate countries are:
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There is monitoring capacity
There is diversity of evaluation: strategy, policy, programme, projects
There is an information flow within government relating to evaluation.
The National Evaluation
Strategy
 Assessment will be of both demand and supply side:
 level of evaluation activity and capacity at both the local
and central levels of governments, for all publicly-funded
interventions, regardless of funding source (e.g. EU,
national budget, etc.)
 Level of evaluation activity and capacity within the
academic, civil society and private sectors
 Will identify gaps in evaluation knowledge and capacity
 Will outline some potential policy choices to be further
elaborated in the NES draft document
National Evaluation
Strategy
• The draft NES will take into account:
– the “Strategy for improving the public policy planning and
formulation system at central level’’
– Assessment of the Romanian evaluation legal framework
– Evaluation models proposed for the 2007-2013 NSRF and OP
process
– Twinning support to Parliament on impact assessment of
legal acts
• Taking into account external environment, and
experience of other EU Member States, the NES
will primarily focus on development of evaluation
culture rather than on systems.
The National
Evaluation Strategy
- This will include:
– Roadmap of further evaluation capacity building
– Training, guidelines, national “society of Romanian
evaluators”
– Liaison with the wider evaluation community (civil
society, Universities, etc.)
– Other capacity building activities
• By 2010, NES should outline the milestones to develop
systems for incorporation of evaluation practices into all
publicly-funded programmes
The National
Evaluation Strategy
- This will include:
– Roadmap of further evaluation capacity building
– Training, guidelines, national “society of Romanian
evaluators”
– Liaison with the wider evaluation community (civil
society, Universities, etc.)
– Other capacity building activities
• By 2010, NES should outline the milestones to develop
systems for incorporation of evaluation practices into all
publicly-funded programmes
Implementation of the
NES
PHARE 2005 – €2m
- “Development of a Professional Evaluation
Community” able to initiate, perform and use
evaluations – €1m
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Target group
- Public administration
- Evaluation firms / evaluators
- Support
organizations
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professional
organizations/networks, academic environment
Activities:
- Evaluation guidelines, procedures and standards
- Ethics codes
- Developing competences – establishing evaluation
curricula, training activities
Implementation of the
NES
- “Evaluation Facility” – €1m
- Main objective: encouraging public bodies to
initiate and use evaluations of their own
interventions
- Secondary objective: know-how transfer to
the indigenous evaluation market
- MACSF ECU will be highly involved in the
implementation, quality assurance activities
and supporting the implementation of the
evaluation recommendations