swedish rural network self assessment nordic baltic rural network meeting 2015 12 07
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Swedish Rural Network
Self assessmentNordic Baltic Rural Network meeting
2015 12 07
82 organisations and authorities have a common Rural Network. 52 of them are actively participating in thematic working groups (TWG)
We are the Swedish Rural Network!
Rural devlopment programEU-commission
The stakeholders – network members
Effects - GoalsNational Rural Network
NRN Self-assessment• Why self-assessment and how to use
the results?• How our ”network members” in TWG
assess their results.• How we assess results on a regularly
basis, using our activity plan as a self-assessment framework.
Common understanding of
needs
Agreement of what to do
Agreement of how to do it
Actions and assessment of
results
Purpose of self-assessment?• To keep a partnership (such as TWG) on track towards
common objectives• To see if it is worth the money and time• To feed in to the yearly planning process of the steering
group• To feed in to the independent evaluation of impacts
(“To what extent has the national rural network contributed to achieving the objectives laid down in the Regulation”)
Members in TWG assess their results
Example from Youth TWG
Increase youth participation in
rural development
More projects planned and
performed by youth within the
RDP
According to the working plan for
the TWGConferences,
Workshops, Report, Trainings, Check of the NSU web site
1) Actions2) Common
assessment of results by comparing statistics of projects and by target group survey
Needs?
What to do/achieve?
How to do it?
Do we need to change?
Activity plan as a self-assessment framework
From our Activity plan 2015-2016:“When the evaluator are studying the activities carried out it is important that the outcomes and results are documented and that it is clear how they are expected to contribute to the overall objectives. Most specific objectives are difficult to measure in quantitative terms. Therefore, most of the results will be followed up by asking target groups how they assess that they have benefited from the efforts and if they can use the knowledge they gained.”
The intervention logic of every focus area is described in the Activity plan:1) Network needs2) Changes we want to achieve meeting the priority needs through network
activities3) Overall objectives which the results will contribute to and how
The activities, the operational objectives and the expected outcomes are described in the TWG activity plans. There are also descriptions of how outcomes and results shall be monitored