Abstract
Effectiveness of Interventions Co-Financed by the Eu Structural Funds in Wielkopolska in the Years 2004-2006 The aim of this article is to analyse the effectiveness of interventions from the EU Structural Funds in Wielkopolska carried out for investments realised in the years 2004-2006, i.e. in the first period of implementing Community regional policy in Poland. The research procedure is composed of two fundamental stages. In the first, projects co-financed from the EU Structural Funds within the framework of the Regional Component of the Integrated Regional Operational Programme were systematised by the criterion of intervention direction within each of the three dimensions of cohesion: economic, social and territorial. In the second stage, selected diagnostic measures for each dimension of cohesion were subjected to effectiveness analysis. The procedure rested on a questions/methods-oriented model applied in line with the theory-driven evaluation approach, a quasiexperimental design and the difference-in-differences technique, as well as methods of econometric analysis. The results made it possible to assess public intervention in Poland in terms of its effectiveness, and to identify challenges that have to be faced very soon.
Highlights
European cohesion policy is a subject of an increasing dispute between its advocates and adversaries
A special role in the dissemination of evaluation practices in Europe was played by the reform of regional policy in 1988.2 The provisions of the Single European Act (1986), confirmed in the Treaty of Maastricht (1992), emphasised very definitely the effectiveness of the new regional policy, a formal obligation to conduct evaluations of structural programmes was imposed on the Member States in the first regulation for the financial perspective 1989-1994 (European Commission 2007)
The evaluation of public intervention cofinanced from the EU Structural Funds carried out in this article is exemplified by the Integrated Regional Operational Programme (IROP), which was the main instrument of regional policy in Poland in the financial perspective 2004-2006
Summary
European cohesion policy is a subject of an increasing dispute between its advocates and adversaries. Supporters present it very often as the greatest experiment in the field of public intervention, an act of solidarity between Member States of the European Union. Their basis is to be an intensification of evaluation of the intervention intended. Considerable inputs of structural funds are frequently associated with an uncertainty as to whether the expensive interventions funded by EU taxpayers are properly targeted and whether they are an important factor improving the cohesion of the Polish regions
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