Tool 3. Monitor
CSA performance monitoring too for NRPPs implementation
This tool provides a monitoring and evaluation framework supporting policymakers in measuring the performance and outcomes of CSA-related interventions.
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Purpose
Enables Managing Authorities to assess whether implemented interventions deliver expected outcomes in terms of productivity, resilience, and climate mitigation/adaptation.
Key questions addressed
- How can CSA interventions be effectively monitored?
- Which indicators should be used to assess performance?
- How can monitoring improve future policy design?
Main features
- Supports development of CSA-aligned performance metrics
- Links interventions to monitoring and evaluation frameworks
- Enables results-based policy implementation
- Facilitates adaptive learning and policy improvement
- Identifies monitoring challenges
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Step 1. Define what to measure
Purpose
Identify the CSA transition outcomes and policy objectives that should be monitored, and define the key evaluation questions that will guide the selection of indicators and the assessment of policy performance.
What should be considered?
- CSA adoption
- Environmental and climate performance
- Socio-economic transition
- Behavioural change and advisory uptake
- Governance and system transformation
Outputs
Users should define:
- Evaluation questions
- Expected outputs
- Expected results
- Transition outcomes
- Long-term objectives
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Step 1 Guidance
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CSA practices Monitoring Planning Worksheet
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Evaluation Questions Worksheet
Step 2. Determine whether existing indicators can measure it
Purpose
Assess whether existing Annex I of COM(2025) 545 final indicators adequately capture CSA transition processes.
Key questions
- Are current indicators sufficient
- Which CSA dimensions are already covered?
- Where are the monitoring gaps?
Outputs
Users identify:
- Existing indicators
- Coverage strengths
- Monitoring weaknesses
- Missing dimensions
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Step 2 Guidance
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CSA-Relevant Annex I Indicators Inventory
Explore the EU Proposal for Performance Framework
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a budget expenditure tracking and performance framework and other horizontal rules for the Union programmes and activities – COM/2025/545 final
Step 3. Design complementary CSA indicators
Purpose
Develop additional indicators where existing frameworks do not capture CSA transitions adequately.
Possible areas
- Behavioural change
- Resilience
- Governance quality
- Long-term adoption
- Systemic transformation
Outputs
Users develop:
- Complementary indicators
- Data collection approaches
- Monitoring recommendations