The Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) provides a single framework for monitoring and evaluation of all rural development interventions for the programming period 2007-2013. The CMEF establishes means for improving programme performance, ensuring the accountability of programmes and allowing an assessment on the achievement of established objectives. The CMEF is laid down in a set of documents drawn up by the Commission and agreed with Member States. These documents were put together in a handbook which includes a series of evaluation guidelines and guidance fiches on the common indicators for monitoring and evaluation. The indicators are also included in annex VIII of Commission Regulation 1974/2006 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation 1698/2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). Guidance document:

document_en.pdf

Annex 1 - general guidance

A_Choice_and_use_of_indicators.pdf

B_Evaluation_guidelines.pdf

C_Ex-ante_evaluation_guidelines_incl._Strategic_Environmental_Assessment.pdf

Annex 2 - Programming and measure guidance

D_Hierarchy_of_objectives.pdf

E_Measure_Fiches.pdf

Annex 3 - Indicator guidance

F_Common_indicator_list.pdf

G_Baseline_indictaor_fiches.pdf

H_Output_indicator_fiches.pdf

I_Result_indicator_fiches.pdf

I_update_Result_indicator_fiches.pdf

J_Impact_indicator_fiches.pdf

J_update_gva-Impact_indicator_fiches.pdf

K_Examples_of_additional_indicators.pdf

Annex 4 - Other guidance

L_FAQ.pdf

M_Rural_Development_Evaluation_network.pdf

N_Glossary_of_terms.pdf

O_Useful_reading.pdf

Additional guidance

wp-leader_en.pdf

wp-questions_en.pdf

wp-networks_en.pdf

guidance_document_application_HNV_impact_indicator.pdf

guidelines_mid-term_evaluation_of_RDP.pdf

wp_CMEF_gross_value_added_indicators.pdf

guidance_document_application_HNV_impact_indicator.pdf

guidance_document_application_HNV_impact_indicator_annex.pdf

wp_approaches_for_assessing_the_impacts_of_the_RDPs_in_the_context_of_multiple_intervening_factors.pdf