Annex: Methodology 1 STRATEGY - MADR

Updating of Mid-Term Evaluation of SAPARD in Romania for the period 2000-2005the landscape • Information obtained from localsources relating to qualitativeparameters of the environment(quantitative information on species).Data relating to the processing ofagricultural/fishery/forestry products:- hygienic conditions,- work safety,- qualitative characteristics of theproduct,- impact on the environment.Data relating to the characteristics ofthe airData relating to the impacts producedby the programme on the main socioeconomicparameters, such as:work, incomes, environment, other.Data relating to the effects of theprogramme on implementation of theacquis communitaire.• Monitoring Committee;• Investigations conducted inprocessing plants (interviews,sampling, single case studies);• National and regional statisticsrelating to the agro-industrial sector;• Monitoring Committee;• Investigations conducted outside offarms (interviews, sampling)• Monitoring Committee;• FADN ;• National and regional accountingstatistics• EUROSTAT.Chapter AChapter CChapter AChapter B:Cross – cuttingThe problem of sources is central for the reliability of the data; below is the range of instruments ofinvestigation used.Some typologies of investigations, such as the questionnaire for farms adhering to the measures,provide a complex of information that is all the more substantial, the more articulate thequestionnaire. This instrument lends itself to collecting both qualitative and quantitative dataforming samples that are substantial enough to guarantee that they well represent the populationunder examination.Interviews, single or group, are a useful instrument for collecting data from the beneficiaries onmanagement aspects of the programme, duly integrating the information obtained by monitoringsystems.Case studies have been used above all for analysing impacts and providing perspectives to thequantitative analysis.1.4 Project ActivitiesThe completed and remaining project activities are summarized in the table below.ActivitiesActivity 1: Mobilisation of key experts & establishmentof project officeActivity 2: Introductory meeting to construe andinterpret the evaluation demandActivity 3: Reconstruction of the Logical Framework ofthe ProgrammeIndicators ofAchievement‣ Arrival of ProjectTeam Leader‣ Adequate logisticarrangements set up‣ Introductory meetingorganised‣ Evaluation demandconstrued andinterpreted‣ Logical Framework ofthe Programmeprepared14