Monitoring and Evaluation of Pillar 2: A non-paper from the United Kingdom

Please find under the link below a pdf-version of a non-paper from the UK, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), on the topic of "Monitoring and Evaluation of Pillar 2" for free download.

Monitoring and evaluation underpins the future design of Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy. Often considered after preliminary conclusions have already been reached on the design of future programmes, monitoring and evaluation should instead directly inform programming proposals from the beginning. For the post 2013 CAP, this is all the more important as monitoring may need to apply consistently across the two Pillars, following the proposed greening of Pillar 1. It may also need to apply, or at the very least integrate effectively, across the different EU funds covered by the Common Strategic Framework.

This paper is an informal contribution from the UK to the debate on the monitoring and evaluation element of post-2013 design of rural development arrangements under the CAP.