This seminar was organised by the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development and focused on disseminating information and tools for best practice evaluation approaches. The event was part of the activities of the Evaluation Unit at the OECD LEED Trento Centre which aims to foster and develop a culture of evaluation of local development strategies that promote entrepreneurship, local cohesion and good governance.
One of the main barriers in reaching a much stronger and better quality of local development evaluation is having an insufficient capacity amongst local development professionals to understand the objectives and methodologies of evaluation. Without this capacity we cannot expect a demand for good quality evaluation to emerge and thus drive forward better evaluation practice. This was also one of the key findings of a major international conference on evaluation held by LEED in Vienna in 2002.
This one day seminar focused on discussing these and related issues with a special concentration on the current situation in evaluating local development strategies implemented recently in the Czech Republic.
The seminar sought to:
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To enhance and strengthen the exchange of experiences and good practices in local development evaluations, the OECD LEED Programme, as a principle, asks for no fees. In addition, the programme does not cover travel costs for participants.
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