ARMSTRONG, H. W. and WELLS, P. (2006). Structural funds and the evaluation of community economic development initiatives in the UK: a critical perspective. Regional studies, 40 (2), 259-272.
Full text not available from this repository.Abstract
Since their inception within UK Structural Funds programmes in the 1990s, community economic development (CED) initiatives have experienced a rapid expansion. Evaluation methods have struggled to adapt to what was a radically new type of policy. This paper charts the rise of CED in the UK’s Objective 1 and 2 programmes, and it examines the main problems posed by CED for Structural Funds monitoring and evaluation. Whilst progress in adapting the monitoring and evaluation methods to CED has been good, a number of key challenges remain to be faced by the eventual ex-post evaluations of the 2000–06 programmes and for the 2007–13 programming period. The key challenges are identified and possible ways forward are discussed.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Uncontrolled Keywords: | community economic development, evaluation, structural funds, UK programmes |
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400600600645 |
Page Range: | 259-272 |
Depositing User: | Ann Betterton |
Date Deposited: | 19 May 2009 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 21:31 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/822 |
Actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year