ESF implementation in the period 2007-2013 - Template for EC Reporting and 2008 Outline Report

Terms of Reference provide the Commission with a tested template based on: a typology of Policy Areas a typology of Interventions and Common Indicators that can generate a standardised set of tables on ESF use and implementation (based on data extracted from SFC 2007) Template will be used by the Commission to report at EU level on ESF Contract started end of december What do we mean by common indicators? We mean similar specific output and result indicators that can be aggregated to provide an overview at EU level.

Methods used by the contractor Review of a sample of programmes, interviews with selected DG EMPL staff, and proposal of policy areas, intervention typology, and identification of a series of preliminary common indicators (CI) Analysis of all the 117 OPs, analysis and translation of all the selected indicators (about 5,000 out of more around 7400) → Feedback from steering committee and technical meetings Required a lot of excahnge, mainly on indicators, where we faced problems of translation and classification

Policy areas 6 policy areas: 1. adaptability, 2. access to employment, 3. social inclusion, 4. human capital, 5. partnerships, pacts and initiatives through networking, 6. institutional capacity (the last two being means to achieve goals in the first 4 areas) Derived from ESF regulation, linked to specific EES guidelines and related objectives of social OMC But first we agreed on policy areas.

Example of chart for reporting Overall disbursement per policy area, 2008 Source: extracted from SFC2007, Eureval.

Types of interventions 1. Dissemination of information and TIC 10. Support for self-employment and start-up 2. Lifelong learning in firms 11. Participation of migrants in employment 3. Human potential in research and innovation 12. Anticipation of economic changes 4. Women access to employment 13. Labour market institutions 5. Other social infrastructure 14. Reforming education and training systems 6. Social inclusion of disadvantaged people 15. Participation in education & training throughout lifecycle 7. Adaptability of employees and enterprises 16. Education infrastructure 8. Activation and prevention on labour market 17. Partnerships 9. Active ageing 18. Institutional capacity 18 types, all derived directly from priority themes of ESF regulation and matched with policy areas

Additional information Management of OP: centralised (country/region)/decentralised (local) How publics are reached: directly, through enterpises, through systems and structures (LM, education and training, health, N/A or others) Activities: education and training, counselling and service, awareness raising, placemetn adn subsidised jobs, studies and research Annex 23 participants Then the contractor collected also additional information on the OPs

Common indicators Several successive sets of CI progressively developed by trial and error considering the following criteria CI clusters a minimum number of specific OP indicators and of MS Each CI can be easily connected to a policy area and measures progress towards an expected result, identifies the target group (as in annex 23) Still being agreed with the Commission Difficult process, as a sufficient homegeneous number of indicators do not always exist for all policy areas and target groups When we refer to target groups, we extended of course the annex 23 data refering to people to enterprises and systems and structures.

Examples of possible common indicators Policy area « Access to the labour market » Number of unemployed people in employability and training activities (output) share of unemployed in employability and training activity who gained a qualification (result) Number of unemployed people who exit unemployment (result) Young unemployed who exit unemployment unemployed who exited unemployment and still hold a job after at least 3 months These are examples and their exact scope and wording still need to be improved

Consultation of MAs Estimates displayed in Excel folder (policy areas, types of intervention, grouping in a common indicator) Several ways to express comments Comments on ‘problematic indicators’ Any suggestion on other alternative meaningful common indicators Estimates: also on additional informantion Start of the consultation is foreseen before the summer