| | The Contribution of the Structural Funds to Sustainable |
| | 0,65 | | MB | Development |
| | 124 | | stron |
| | 5833 | | ID | Committee of the Regions, European Commission |
| | 2003 | | rok |
| | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 |
| | THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROJECT.1 |
| | Purpose of the Analytical Framework .1 |
| | An Operational Definition of Sustainable Development 1 |
| | The Analytical Framework.1 |
| | Regional and National Evaluation .2 |
| | EU and National Evaluation 2 |
| | Key Methodological Issues3 |
| | 1 INTRODUCTION 4 |
| | 1.1 Aim of the Study.4 |
| | 1.2 Objectives of the Study4 |
| | 1.3 The Purpose of this Report 6 |
| | 1.4 The Purpose of the Framework .6 |
| | 1.5 Use of the Framework6 |
| | 2 DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 7 |
| | 2.1 An Operational Definition of Sustainable Development.7 |
| | 2.2 Principles of Sustainability .9 |
| | 2.3 Additional Evaluation Questions 10 |
| | 2.4 Approaches to Measuring Sustainable Development10 |
| | 2.5 Aggregations of Indicators for Sustainable Development11 |
| | 2.6 The Structural Funds and Sustainable Development 13 |
| | 2.7 Regional Development Paths 14 |
| | 3 A DESCRIPTION OF THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK16 |
| | 3.1 Introduction to the Main Components16 |
| | 3.2 Programme & Project Life-cycle 16 |
| | 3.3 Evaluation Framework .17 |
| | 3.4 Evaluation Tools & Methods 17 |
| | 4 EVALUATION FRAMEWORK .19 |
| | 4.1 Summary of the Framework.19 |
| | 4.2 Parts A and B: Regional and Programme Assessment.20 |
| | 4.3 Evaluation of the Structural Funds’ Contribution to Sustainable Development .23 |
| | 4.4 The Assessment Framework .25 |
| | 4.5 Methodological Implications of the Assessment Framework.27 |
| | 4.5.1 The Use of Indicators27 |
| | 4.5.2 Quantitative or Qualitative Assessment27 |
| | 4.5.3 Aggregation and Weighting of Impacts.27 |
| | 4.5.4 The Assessment of Trade-offs and Win-wins .28 |
| | 4.6 Part C: Programme Management28 |
| | 5 EVALUATION TOOLS – BASE INDICATORS30 |
| | 5.1 The Need for Indicators of Sustainable Development .30 |
| | 5.2 Evaluating the SF Programmes.30 |
| | 5.3 The Type of Relevant Indicators31 |
| | 5.3.1 Environmental/natural capital:.31 |
| | 5.3.2 Human Capital 32 |
| | 5.3.3 Social Capital 34 |
| | 5.4 The Choice of Base Indicators.36 |
| | 6 EVALUATION TOOLS – REGIONAL AND PROGRAMME ASSESSMENT PROTOCOLS38 |
| | 6.1 Part A: Regional Assessment 38 |
| | 6.1.1 Programmes and Projects in the Region 38 |
| | 6.1.2 Overview of Key SD Trends and Trade-offs and SD Assessment Criteria.39 |
| | 6.2 Part B: Programme Assessment .41 |
| | 6.2.1 Stage One: Selection of measures and projects for assessment.42 |
| | 6.2.2 Stage Two: Assessing the consistency of the Programme objectives, the EE SWOT and their |
| | ‘own’ SD criteria42 |
| | 6.2.3 Stage Three: The assessment of measures against Programme SD criteria 43 |
| | 7 EVALUATION TOOLS – PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT EVALUATION PROTOCOL45 |
| | 7.1 Introduction 45 |
| | 7.2 Programme management evaluation questionnaire45 |
| | 8 APPROACH TO ECONOMETRIC MODELLING.51 |
| | 8.1 Introduction to the General Approach51 |
| | 8.2 The Counterfactual Position.52 |
| | 8.3 Definitions of Indicators52 |
| | 8.4 Overview of the Methodology 53 |
| | 8.4.1 Macroeconomic modelling approach to assess structural funds performance.53 |
| | 8.4.2 The E3ME model 54 |
| | 8.4.3 Use of E3ME outputs to generate indicators of capital change54 |
| | 8.4.4 Data and model interventions .55 |
| | 8.4.5 Long term analysis using E3ME .56 |
| | 8.4.6 Regional and industrial representation in E3ME.56 |
| | 8.4.7 Fixed Investment in E3ME56 |
| | 8.4.8 Supply and Demand side modelling .58 |
| | 8.5 References.58 |
| | GLOSSARY 60 |
| | REFERENCES63 |
| | ANNEX 1: THE FOUR CAPITALS MODEL.64 |
| | ANNEX 2 : POINTS AT WHICH SD GUIDANCE MIGHT BE APPLIED .69 |
| | ANNEX 3: CATEGORISATION OF SF INTERVENTIONS BY THE TYPE OF |
| | CAPITAL TO WHICH THE INTERVENTIONS ARE PRINCIPALLY DIRECTED80 |
| | ANNEX 4: A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE MAJOR INDICATOR SETS.98 |