Services

Euréval provides assistance to public organisations that wish to set up or improve their own evaluation system.

The aim is to enhance the overall quality of evaluation reports, to guarantee the relevance of the evaluation topics chosen, and to ensure that conclusions and recommendations are taken into account and used by decision-makers.

The mission

Euréval provides assistance for the manager of an evaluation unit or in cases of an audit commissioned by a higher authority. The options are as follows :

• Assistance in the design of an evaluation system
  The mission consists in helping a public authority to create its evaluation system by deciding on the function and size of the evaluation unit, by specifying the articulation of monitoring and evaluation functions, by starting to schedule the first evaluations, and by setting up mechanisms for use of the evaluation. This option can be associated with the training of key persons in the evaluation system.

• Coaching the evaluation manager
  We offer the evaluation manager a constant resource for interaction concerning choices and decisions to make.
  This option involves flexible interaction over a long period, within the frame of a set number of hours.

• Examining the evaluation system
  This consists in reviewing the functioning of the evaluation system over a given period, with a view to proposing possible improvements.
  It involves the auditing, evaluation and comparison of national and international best practice. At this stage, the aim is to enhance the quality of evaluation mandates, steering committee meetings, reports and diffusion.
  The study also has a meta-evaluation dimension. It is important at this stage to understand and judge the real usefulness of evaluations and to make proposals to enhance the system’s contribution to public management and/or democratic debate.

They trusted us

European Commission - DG Budget : Etude sur l’utilisation de l’analyse coût-efficacité en évaluation à la Commission
Cette étude visait à identifier dans quel contexte l’analyse coût-efficacité s’avère pertinente en évaluation de programme et politique et à repérer les types d’évaluations (ou plutôt de questions évaluatives) qui ne peuvent être traitées par cet outil.

Luxembourg - The European Court of Auditors : Expert contribution to the audit of the evaluation policy framework of the E.C.
This expert report was prepared by J.Toulemonde as a contribution to an audit of the evaluation policy framework of the Commission. The report covers all EC policies and all categories of evaluative activities including impact assessment. The main issues addressed are: (1) use of evaluation by activity managers, (2) use of evaluation for setting of policy priorities, (3) use of evaluation for accountability and feeding democratic debates, and (4) use of evaluation for a result oriented budgeting process in connection with the Activity Based Management system (ABM).

France - Région Limousin : five-year review of evaluations in the region
This review, undertaken in 2001, covered eleven evaluations in the region by regional and national authorities.
The mission included assessments of the quality of reports and evaluation processes, as well as an in-depth analysis of the utility of four evaluations. This utility proved to be excellent in two of the cases studied and this success is partly owing to the quality of the system established by the Region. Our conclusions and recommendations helped to consolidate and improve the system. They were validated by a monitoring committee and presented to the President of the Region at the group’s last meeting. Several changes were immediately decided on.