Brussels 26 June 2008 Structural Funds : Indicator system in Wallonia (Belgium) Florence Hennart Economic Policy Department Ministry of Walloon Region Evaluation Network Meeting

Ministry of Walloon Region - Economic Policy Department 2 Principles Continuity - lessons learned from period - less and better indicators Focus on result indicators, in particular employment effects Orientations from the Commission : working paper n° 2 - Core indicators Bottom-up approach : axis indicators consolidated from measures/projects indicators

Ministry of Walloon Region - Economic Policy Department 3 Structure of the indicators system Measures / projects level : Output indicators Results indicators Consolidation at the axis level of the most pertinent indicators Program level : Context indicators - To be linked with global objectives Global effects on employment (gross direct effects) Environmental indicators

Ministry of Walloon Region - Economic Policy Department 4 Output indicators Number of beneficiaries (enterprises, research centers) Number of projects (R&D projects, formation centers, infrastructures projects, rehabilitation projects, urban development projects,…)

Ministry of Walloon Region - Economic Policy Department 5 Results indicators Number of new enterprises and extended enterprises Direct gross employment effects, of which researchers Investment / R&D investment New products, processes, or patents Superficies rehabilitated and reallocated

Ministry of Walloon Region - Economic Policy Department 6 Collection of indicators By the functional administration from the operators or directly from the functional administration Semi-annual basis Via the central database managed by the coordination administration automatically consolidated at the measures and axis levels

Ministry of Walloon Region - Economic Policy Department 7 Development work Harmonisation of the definition used with the administrations Explanation of the definitions to the operators, and if necessary review of their quantification (project level) Point of attention : Avoiding double counting for employment effects and creation of new enterprises

Ministry of Walloon Region - Economic Policy Department 8 Monitoring process By the coordination administration on a semi-annual basis By the monitoring committees of projects/groups of projects (annual) By the monitoring committees of programs Annual reports Link with evaluation (article 48§3)

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