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COHESION POLICY
DELIVERING ADDED
VALUE TO THE EU AND
ITS CITIZENS
Mariana HRISTCHEVA
Evaluation & European Semester
DG REGIO
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The ex post evaluation
• 14 work packages, independent experts
• 63 programme, 20 project case studies
• Interviewed:
• 3 000 beneficiaries;
• 1 000 Managing authority employees;
• 530 stakeholders participating in 10
seminars to discuss the results
• State of the art evaluation methods
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Macroeconomic impact
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Net positive impact for all MS
(GDP, % deviation from baseline)
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2015
EU-12
EU-15
PL
LV
HU
LT
EE
RO
CZ
SK
BG
GR
PT
SI
MT
ES
AT
CY
IT
DE
FI
IE
FR
BE
SE
UK
NL
DK
LU
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2023
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Headline figures
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Context: Cohesion Policy as %
of public investment
ERDF & CF AS A % OF GOVERNMENT
CAPITAL INVESTMENT 2007-2013
EU27 = 6.5% AVERAGE
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Selected achievements
• About 400 000 SMEs supported
• Over 5 000 km of new roads (2 400 km TEN-T)
• About 4 000 km of railway upgraded (2 600 km TEN-T built)
• About 6 million more people connected to drinking water
• About 7 million people connected to wastewater treatment
 In Poland, the share of municipal waste going to landfills was
reduced from 90% to 53%
 Reduced energy use in public buildings in Lithuania (=3% of
national energy consumption)
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Key lessons learned
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Results & performance
Issue
Addressed in 2014-20 by…
~90% of FIs in just 1 field
(enterprise support)
Regulations allow FIs in all themes
and volumes are expanding
Broad focus programmes,
lacking clear goals
Thematic concentration, result
indicators
Project contribution to
programme objectives unclear
Project selection criteria must take
account of result indicators, better
monitoring indicators
Making it difficult to track
programme progress (other
than spending)
Regular reporting of results and
outputs, performance framework
linked to a performance reserve
Evaluations often focused on
delivery and monitoring
Impact evaluation for each of the
specific objectives, assessing
contribution to results
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Performance, transparency and
accountability
• Thematic concentration of resources
• Clear objectives, measurable results including
performance framework and reserve
• Ex-ante conditionalities
• Expanded use of financial instruments
• Smart specialization strategies;
• Strengthened monitoring;
• Impact evaluations
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Transparency and Accountability 2014-20
• Open Data Platform:
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• Detailed data on planned and achieved investments (Dec 2016)
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Thank you!
• Cohesion Policy at work - 2007-2013:
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/newsroom/news/2
016/10/10-07-2016-cohesion-policy-at-work-keyoutcomes-of-eu-investments-in-2007-2013
• ESIF Open Data
Platform: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/
• Evaluation:
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/evaluations/
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