Urban food strategies in Central and Eastern Europe: what's specific and what's at stake?

Nemes, Gusztáv and Tisenkopfs, Talis and Balázs, Bálint (2013) Urban food strategies in Central and Eastern Europe: what's specific and what's at stake? In: Rural resilience and vulnerability: the rural as locus of solidarity and conflict in times of crisis : XXVth Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology 29 July-1 August 2013 : eProceedings. Universita degli Studi, Firenze, pp. 75-76. ISBN 978-8-8908-9600-2

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Abstract

Integrating a larger set of instruments into Rural Development Programmes implied an increasing focus on monitoring and evaluation. Against the highly diversified experience with regard to implementation of policy instruments the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework has been set up by the EU Commission as a strategic and streamlined method of evaluating programmes’ impacts. Its indicator-based approach mainly reflects the concept of a linear, measure-based intervention logic that falls short of the true nature of RDP operation and impact capacity on rural changes. Besides the different phases of the policy process, i.e. policy design, delivery and evaluation, the regional context with its specific set of challenges and opportunities seems critical to the understanding and improvement of programme performance. In particular the role of local actors can hardly be grasped by quantitative indicators alone, but has to be addressed by assessing processes of social innovation. This shift in the evaluation focus underpins the need to take account of regional implementation specificities and processes of social innovation as decisive elements for programme performance.1

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