1. Workshop on Strategic Programming, Monitoring and evaluation Focusing on Performance and REsults Madrid, 22 February Ines Hartwig DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

2. Performance orientation
Link to Europe 2020 is essential
Intervention logic to address challenges identified in country specific recommendations and NRP
Drafting the strategy shall not start from a blank sheet of paper but shall be based on previous analytical work in the context of Europe 2020

3. Indicators They are key to monitoring
Financial, output and result – no impact indicators
Indicators need a definition
The Regulation establishes a legal obligation on the Member State to process micro data

4. Common ESF indicators
Capture outputs, immediate and longer-term results
OPs shall always report against all common indicators

5. Common ESF output indicators
People
Entities
- unemployed, incl. LTU*
- LTU*
- inactive*
- inactive, not in education/training*
- employed, incl. self-employed*
number of projects fully or partially implemented by social partners or non-governmental organisations
- below 25 years*
- above 54 years*
number of projects targeting publ. administrations or publ. services
- with ISCED 1 or ISCED 2*
- with ISCED 3 or ISCED 4*
- with ISCED 5 to 8*
number of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises supported
- migrants, people with a foreign background, minorities (incl. marginalised communities such as Roma)**
- disabled**
- other disadvantaged**

6. Common ESF result indicators
Immediate
Longer-term
Inactive newly engaged in job searching upon leaving
In employment 6 months after leaving
In education/training upon leaving
In self-employment 6 months after leaving
Gaining a qualification upon leaving
With an improved labour market situation 6 months after leaving
In employment upon leaving
Only for a sample of participants.
Only reported in 2019 and 2023

7. Programme-specific indicators
In addition to common indicators
Result indicators linked to the supported participant or entity
YES: participants aged 20 or younger starting an apprenticeship
NO: share of young people aged 20 or younger in apprenticeship

8. Baseline and targets Baselines for result indicators
Cumulative target values for 2022
Targets are quantified for common indicators (in absolute numbers or shares/rates) and quantified or qualitative for programme-specific result indicators

9. Example for baselines, indicators, targets for early school leaving
national/regional early school leaving rate, or:
Early school leaving rate at the X% or X worst performing schools in the region/MS
Indicators:
Output: no of schools supported
Result: no. of early school leavers at supported schools
Result Target:
early school leaving rate at supported schools, or:
Reduction of early school leaving rate at supported schools by X% (in comparison to before support)

10. ESF Result indicators PS RI with quantitative target
Meas urem ent Unit
Comm on output indicat or
Basel ine Value
Meas. Unit for Baseline & Target
Basel ine Year
Target Value (2022)
Source of Data
Freque ncy of reporti ng
PS RI with quantitative target
e.g. Participants aged in education or training upon leaving
No. NA
60% %
2014
80%
Monito ring
1/year
PS RI without target
e.g. Participants aged starting an apprenticeship
CRI with target
e.g. Participants in employment upon leaving
Below years
50%
55%

11. Annual Implementation reports (AIR)
The first AIR in 2016, covering 2014 and 2015
Simplified reports in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
Reports of a more strategic nature in 2017, 2019 & 2023
All data needs to be provided in order for a report to be admissible

12. Guidance documents ESF Guidance on monitoring and evaluation
ERDF/CF Guidance on monitoring and evaluation
Guidance on ex ante evaluation (ERDF, ESF, CF)
Guidance on counterfactual impact evaluations – to be published in December 2012
Technical paper on ESF programme-specific indicators

13. Performance framework

14. Performance Framework (1)
Set at priority axis level, per fund and per category of region, but consistency of the performance framework across programmes and funds
Uses key implementation steps, financial, output and – where appropriate - result indicators
Milestones for 2018, targets for 2022
Milestones & Targets use a subset of the indicators (except for implementation steps)
Indicators must be representative of the priority axis

15. Performance Framework (2)
Milestones:
For 2016 and 2018 for indicators which are a subset of those in the OP
Targets for 2022
Milestones and Targets:
financial indicators (2016, 2018, 2022)
key implementation steps (2016)
output indicators (2016, 2018, 2022)
result indicators (2018, 2022)
Milestones and targets report actual achievements but can be changed if justified

16. Performance Reserve and Review
5% of resources not allocated to programmes
No competition between MS – reserve per Fund, Member State and category of region
Allocated following the review in 2019
Allocation to priority axes where milestones have been achieved – based on Member State proposal

17. MFF Agreement Performance Framework
All Member States shall establish a national performance reserve for the Investment for growth and jobs goal of cohesion policy, as well as for EAFRD and EMFF, consisting of 7% of their total allocation