With the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) a guidance document for evaluation of rural development … policy has been published by the European Commission. The CMEF defines the requirements on monitoring and evaluation and … specifies a limited number of quantitative common indicators applicable to each programme. While in general the introduction of …

precise diagnosis of the olive grove through a selection of a set of indicators. This methodology will be applied in future …

indicators around five sustainability dimensions (economic, social, environmental, health and ethical). Scores of performance are … measured for each chain in each of the indicators and results show that the local chain performs better in 40% of the … indicators and performs equivalently to the global chain in 40% of the indicators. The higher performance of the local chain is …

. First, on the basis of a meta-analysis of ongoing initiatives (e.g. the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators), a … Italy, the monitoring and evaluation tools currently used by the European Commission to assess Administrations’ performances … discussed. Findings demonstrate, among others, the weakness of the European evaluation system in the analysis of the cost …

This paper discusses how environmental indicators and multicriteria methodologies can support the ex post evaluation of … Agri-Environmental Schemes. The paper is based on information from the Mid term evaluation of the Rural Development … assess the relative importance of different evaluation criteria. Clearly, the ability to properly evaluate the results …

The paper deals with agri-environmental indicators, examines farm inputs, on the basis of statistical data of the … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Szabo, Pomazi 2002) and the Eurostat (2004). The examined indicators …

area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales … Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability … Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and …

for evaluation. The rationale of indepth case study analysis as an essential complement to formal evaluation techniques is … economy, whilst retaining support for farming adaptation; use of clear structural indicators and local expertise to determine …

indicators and evaluation questions. Romania, where LEADER is currently introduced, has set national priorities for the programme … Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) was set up for evaluating EU interventions. The CMEF builds upon sets of common …, identifies and suggests appropriate indicators. Social Network Analysis is proposed as a tool for investigating intangible …

specific tool set by IRES Piemonte (Institute of Socio Economic Research) as a proxy of quality of life indicators. The aim of …, in terms of changes in quality of life in rural areas. In the evaluation field, this methodology is applicated for the …