External evaluation of NDPHS Executive Summary of Proceedings and Findings

Process of evaluation First Meeting with consultant in March 2008 Start of documents-analysis early April First Round of interviews during CSR-meeting in Brussels (April) Questionnaires for EG-members in May Second Round of interviews during meeting in Berlin (June) Third Round of interviews during meeting in Stockholm (June) Submission of draft early August Meeting with Evaluation Team early September Presentation of findings during CSR-meeting end of September 20.07.2019 PowerPoint-Präsentationsvorlage

Process of evaluation Evaluation was characterized by High degree of curiosity from all stake-holders Readiness and eagerness to answer questions and formulate opinions Openness in regard to critical issues and challenges Acceptance of recommendations and analysis, even if critical General feeling of judging the evaluation as a chance to move forward 20.07.2019 PowerPoint-Präsentationsvorlage

Major results of evaluation Political coherence stated policy goals and executed activities issue of „social well-being“ Lacks in regard to awareness The partnership‘s visibility Definition of success and medium-term goals. Membership issues The database/pipeline project The secretariat‘s performance Relationship Expert Groups - Projects Challenges for Expert Groups Evaluation and monitoring 20.07.2019 PowerPoint-Präsentationsvorlage

Recommendations This report recommends inter alia that NDPHS should review procedures, regulations, guidelines and standards in regard to the establishment and support of Expert Groups, the ways of reporting and facilitation of projects and the definition of the roles of institutions of the partnership as well of membership-issues that NDPHS should enhance and professionalize its public-relation-activities and its efforts in mainstreaming and dissemination, using both external expertise as well as thevast experience which can be tapped through the Expert Groups 20.07.2019 PowerPoint-Präsentationsvorlage

Recommendations that NDPHS should make basic strategic decisions, especially towards the way projects should be facilitated or implemented, while the consultant suggests that the network should not turn itself over into an implementation agency, but should concentrate on giving ideas, scrutinizing progress and learning from results that NDPHS should develop a medium-term working programme for the whole partnership 20.07.2019 PowerPoint-Präsentationsvorlage

Recommendations that NDPHS has to concentrate efforts to ensure that the Secretariat will attain a legal status in order to improve important aspects of its activities that NDPHS should use evaluation as a tool to be not only a facilitator of projects, but also a facilitator of ideas in order to connect to the national level and advice in policy formulation 20.07.2019 PowerPoint-Präsentationsvorlage