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On-going monitoring and evalution of Rural Development Programmes of the Laender Hesse, Lower-Saxony/Bremen, Northrhine-Westfalia and Schleswig-Holstein in the programming period 2014-2020
Project
Project code: TI-LR-08-PID1740
Contract period: 01.05.2015
- 31.12.2024
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
In cooperation with the Thünen-Institute Farm Economics, the Thünen-Institue of International Forestry and Forest Economics and entera the Thünen-Institute of Rural Studies evaluates rural develpoment programmes and measures within a multi-disciplinary team and approach. The Institute of Rural Studies is the leading partner. Main tasks are analyses regarding programme delivery and implementation, enviromental issues, the support of human capital and cooperation activities as well as rural development including the LEADER approach. EU-cofinanced rural development programmes are subject of a systematic evaluation. In the federal system of Germany Laender are responsible for rural development support and therefore for comissioning evaluation studies. The overall evaluation framework is set by the EU. In a interactive process we operationalise and complement the EU evaluation framework. The 5 Länder with four Rural Development Programmes (Lower Saxony and Bremen have a joint programme) want to spent 5 billions of Euro until 2020. Most punblic spending is foreseen for enviromental protection, followed by rural development measures. A wide range of measures is offered with environmental objectives: Ecological farming, cover crops, buffer strips, management care of biotops, advisory systems and cooperation in nature protection. We find also a wide range of different measures aiming at rural development: village renewal, village shops, retirement complex or broadband infratstructure. We evaluate the rural development programmes regarding their contribution to EU-priorities, the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy and the EU 2020 strategy. The EU-Regulation contains six priorities. All measures are linked to one priority. In terms of money spending, priority 4 'Environment' and 6 'Rural development' are the most important priorities. The evaluation design contains an output and implementation analysis, the assessment of effectivess and efficiency and an impact assessment on measures level as well as on programme level. Within the first yaers after the starting of the programme, our evaluation is focussed on the elaboration of findings improving the programme performance. The focus changes with the prgramme status. After programme completion we are looking on the impacts. Depending on the evaluation question we use different methodological approaches (quantitative and qualitative). Our empirical findings are linked the the policy and programme cycle and support programme responsibles to improve measures and programmes.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Sociology
- Resource management
- Agroeconomics
Framework programme
Funding programme
- BMEL - Core funding
- EU Funding
- Funding of Agricultural Research by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection Lower Saxony
- Funding by the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
- Funding of Agricultural Research by the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- Individual projects of the Ministry for Agriculture and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia
- Funding of Agricultural Research by the Ministry of Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
Excutive institution
Funding institution
- Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- European Commission
- Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection, Lower Saxony
- Free Hanseatic City Bremen
- Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- Ministry for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Ministry of Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization Schleswig-Holstein
Project management agencies
- Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
- European Commission (EC)
- Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection, Lower Saxony (ML)
- Free Hanseatic City Bremen
- Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (HMUKLV)
- Ministry for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MLV)
- Ministry of Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization Schleswig-Holstein (MELUND)
