Lessons from FEAD AIR and audit recommendations FEAD Evaluation Partnership Meeting 28 April 2017 Jiri POLASEK Evaluation and Impact Assessment Unit DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

Content Implementation (2015 AIRs) AIRs and indicators: lessons learned Audit recommendations

Summary – Financial implementation EUR 419,2 million committed to operations in 20 MS (EUR 752 million for 2014-2015; total allocation EUR 3 813 million) EUR 388 million paid to operations in 17 MS (EUR 484 million for 2014-2015) - EUR 379 million paid for food support - EUR 2,7 million paid for BMA EUR 46 million declared to Commission

Summary – Physical implementation Over 409 000 tonnes of food distributed in 15 MS 13 MS distributed packages, 7 distributed meals 1 MS: donated food Basic material assistance distributed in 3 MS (school equipment and hygiene articles), OP II: selection of partner organisations > first outputs/results in 2016 reports

Summary – Results OP I Over 14.1 million people estimated to have benefited from FEAD material support in 2015 (22.6 million in 2014/15) 6,7 million women (47,2%) 4,1 million children (29,2%) 1,3 million aged 65 years and above (9,7%) 1,9 million migrants/ foreign background(14%) 0,7 million people with disabilities (5,5%) 1,2 million homeless persons (8,5%)

General issues Reporting period is previous calendar year Important for reporting on indicators Section with information on implementation: General information about implementation, including with references to the values achieved for indicators In the absence of progress an explanation is needed OP II: section has to contain an assessment of progress towards achieving specific objectives

General issues Accompanying measures: information has to be included in report, regardless of source of financing Main types of measures offered Good practice: Indications about take-up Good practice: problems encountered/addressed Consultations with stakeholders: mandatory for both types of OPs Performance observations under Article 13(7)

Indicators Indicator 13 : Food packages distributed content of the package Indicator 11b : Proportion of FEAD co-financed food products definition Values of indicators in text have to correspond to values in the annex

Indicators Indicators reported based on estimates Values in AIR method used Values in AIR No or 0 Yes or value ≠ 0 Empty cells Plausibility check – e.g. share men/women

Indicators Modification of values of indicators in previous periods explanation required Additional automatic checks for AIRs

Audit recommendations Efficiency of monitoring process introduce additional automated controls in SFC2014 improve the access to existing documents in a user-friendly environment

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