Structure of the EU-CEM Handbook

The EU-CEM Handbook provides guidelines for three different phases of a project:

1. When writing the project proposal: Chapter 2 provides guidelines for laying the ground for successful evaluation in the proposal preparation phase. It includes guidelines written for the partners responsible for the evaluation in the project (referred to as ‘the evaluation team’ in this handbook), coordinators, and proposal evaluators.
2. When the project starts: Chapter 3 provides guidelines for setting an evaluation plan that is feasible to execute, regardless of the evaluation areas in focus (technical evaluation, user evaluation, impact assessment). Chapter 4 describes evaluation-area-specific guidelines to support this planning. Chapters 3 and 4 are intended for the evaluation team.
3. When the project ends: Chapter 5 provides guidelines for reporting evaluation outcomes, and for providing lessons learned, new best practices and feedback for future EU-CEM updates. Chapter 5 is intended for the evaluation team.

The role of each chapter and their outputs are described in the next figure. The outputs include the project plan (Description of Action), an agreement on what data to collect and how, the evaluation plan, and feedback for future EU-CEM updates.

Role of different chapter of the EU-CEM Handbook (light green) and their outputs (dark green).