1. 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

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

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

4. Summary – Physical implementation
Over 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

5. 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%)

6. 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

7. 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)

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

12. Thank you