A training organised on “Policy Evaluation in Local/Regional Development and Territorial Competitiveness Programmes”

Institute for Territorial Economic Development (InTER) and the Austrian Institute for SME Research (KMFA), in partnership with the National Agency for Regional Development (NARR) and the Public Policy Secretariat of the Republic of Serbia have organized a training on “Policy Evaluation in Local/Regional Development and Territorial Competitiveness Programmes”. The training was organized in Belgrade, on November 12-13 in Hotel Slavija.

The action is funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) through the BACID grant scheme (Building Administrative Capacities in Danube Region & Western Balkans), managed by the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns (AACT) and KDZ Center for Public Administration Research.

The training was implemented by Peter Kaufmann (KMFA), Dragiša Mijačić (InTER) and Dragana Aleksić (the Secretariat).
It covered the basic issues related to evaluation in the public policy cycle, the key concepts of evaluation, EC Guidelines on better regulations 2015, Guidelines of the DG Regio about evaluation plans. An overview of evaluations in the region was also provided (with case studies). The implemented reform of the planning system and public policy management was also presented, as well as best practice examples and lessons learned from evaluations in Europe.