The aim of this article is to assess critically institutional and policy arrangements
for evaluation within Lithuanian public administration in order to manage the support
of the European Structural Funds and the use of evaluation requirements of EU
structural funds as a limited cased study. What has been changed in the administrative
arrangements of EU Structural funds support during the two programming periods
2004-2006 and 2007-2013? A key research question is to assess administrative
arrangements for evaluation within Lithuanian public administration in order
to manage the support of the European Structural Funds and use of evaluation
requirements of the EU structural funds as a limited case study to map how these
arrangements are or are not developed, and isolating the key explanatory factors.
Methodologically, we used semi-structured qualitative interviews and quantitative
online surveys of officials, academics and evaluators. The research results show that
isomorphism and donor-oriented evaluation dominates in the evaluation system
of the EU Structural and Cohesion funds. Lithuania transfers the elements necessary
for support evaluation to the public administration systems. From the intervention
approach, supporting many programmes and projects, there is a change to the
approach based on long-term planning, programming and consulting with the
stakeholders. The current paper covers three significant topics (a) the evaluation of the
EU Structural support to Lithuania; (b) the institutional and policy arrangements for
evaluation within Lithuanian national government; (c) evaluation capacity for public
policy evaluation within Lithuania. The research itself contributes to the spread
of evaluation theory and practice in the new EU member states. State officials will
be able to learn and compare the implementation of evaluation in other member
states, what aims were reached, what the scope and significance of evaluation
is dependent on evaluation coordination and system centralization-decentralization
and what the influence of cultural aspects on evaluation implementation is. The
evaluation community could learn about the differences of evaluation systems,
possibilities and restrictions, the applied evaluation methods and means of evaluation
quality management in order to work in a certain market.
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