Swedish Rural Network

Self assessmentNordic Baltic Rural Network meeting

2015 12 07

82 organisations and authorities have a common Rural Network. 52 of them are actively participating in thematic working groups (TWG)

We are the Swedish Rural Network!

Rural devlopment programEU-commission

The stakeholders – network members

Effects - GoalsNational Rural Network

NRN Self-assessment• Why self-assessment and how to use

the results?• How our ”network members” in TWG

assess their results.• How we assess results on a regularly

basis, using our activity plan as a self-assessment framework.

Common understanding of

needs

Agreement of what to do

Agreement of how to do it

Actions and assessment of

results

Purpose of self-assessment?• To keep a partnership (such as TWG) on track towards

common objectives• To see if it is worth the money and time• To feed in to the yearly planning process of the steering

group• To feed in to the independent evaluation of impacts

(“To what extent has the national rural network contributed to achieving the objectives laid down in the Regulation”)

Members in TWG assess their results

Example from Youth TWG

Increase youth participation in

rural development

More projects planned and

performed by youth within the

RDP

According to the working plan for

the TWGConferences,

Workshops, Report, Trainings, Check of the NSU web site

1) Actions2) Common

assessment of results by comparing statistics of projects and by target group survey

Needs?

What to do/achieve?

How to do it?

Do we need to change?

Activity plan as a self-assessment framework

From our Activity plan 2015-2016:“When the evaluator are studying the activities carried out it is important that the outcomes and results are documented and that it is clear how they are expected to contribute to the overall objectives. Most specific objectives are difficult to measure in quantitative terms. Therefore, most of the results will be followed up by asking target groups how they assess that they have benefited from the efforts and if they can use the knowledge they gained.”

The intervention logic of every focus area is described in the Activity plan:1) Network needs2) Changes we want to achieve meeting the priority needs through network

activities3) Overall objectives which the results will contribute to and how

The activities, the operational objectives and the expected outcomes are described in the TWG activity plans. There are also descriptions of how outcomes and results shall be monitored