Ex-ante Evaluation of the emerging 2007-2013 Structural Fund programmes
The Brief: Government Offices for the West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber required support to assess the emerging Regional Competitiveness and Employment programmes in the West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber. The assignments involved a thorough review of the programmes’ Operational Plans which will guide the investment of funding over the 2007-2013 period.
A key part of the assignment was to ensure that the priority issues for the regions were appropriately identified within the socio-economic analysis and policy considerations of the documents and that these were then reflected in the emerging programme strategy and priority axes for intervention. Our wider European appraisal and evaluation experience is extensive. We have worked on behalf of European Secretariats across England and Scotland undertaking ex-ante, mid-term and ex-post evaluations. An example of our recent experience is the mid-term evaluation of the 2000-2006 North East Objective 2 programme and preparation of an update to this document to guide implementation of the second half of the programme.
Sheffield