1. Debrief of the workshop on indicators
Jeannette Monier
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Evaluation and Impact Assessment Unit
ESF Evaluation Partnership meeting, 13 June 2018, Athens

2. General feedback
Programming
Reporting
Definitions
Administrative registers
Informed estimations
Material deprivation

3. General feedback
Agreement with the principles of stability and simplification
Welcome
Impact evaluation at programme level
Reservations/Criticism
All evaluation criteria for each evaluation, in particular EU added value, coherence

4. Programming
Welcome
Flexibility: principle of use common indicators for target setting, but programme specific indicators can also be used
Flexibility: combined indicators in target setting
Reservations/Criticism
Break-down by category of region: not suited for system support and national operations

5. Programming Additional points
In the negotiation of the programmes, the reference values will need to take into account the new definitions of indicators.
SFC needs to be upgraded to accommodate combined indicators for target setting.

6. Reporting Welcome Reduction in the number of common indicators
Elimination of composite common indicators
Reservations/Criticism
Frequency of electronic data transmission
Missing template for data transmission of ESF+ data

7. Reporting
Proposals
"When possible" to be extended to common output indicators
Replace "when possible" to "where relevant"

8. Definitions Welcome Simplified definitions Reservations/Criticism
CPR definition of participant not compatible with ESF practice

9. Administrative registers
Reservations/Criticism
Compatibility with GDPR
Not commented
Enabling provision for MAs to use registers or equivalent sources

10. Informed estimations Reservations/Criticism Prone to prejudice
Additional points
Surveys can be continued for 1(b)
Need for examples
National methodology or method left to the beneficiary?
Suitability to "foreign background" and "from rural area"?

11. Material deprivation Welcome Less indicators, flexibility
Reservations/Criticism
Beneficiary instead of partner organisation
Gender split needed
Collecting data on financial value per category for food (children, homeless and other)
Difficulty to estimate some indicators