1. EVALUATION UNIT at the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development

2. CFE/LEED Outreach activities through its Trento Centre
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Trento Centre mission
Contribute to local development capacity building in Central and Eastern Europe and South Eastern Europe with reference to:
Entrepreneurship and job creation
Local governance
Social cohesion
Evaluation
Facilitate the exchange of experience between OECD member and non-member countries
Strengthen the relationship between policy makers, local development practitioners and the scientific community in OECD member and non member countries
Reinforce representative democracy at sub-national level by initiating and supporting a dialogue between national and sub-national legislatures on local development issues

3. Evaluation Unit at the Trento Centre
The Evaluation Unit has been set up in 2005 to promote and assist in improvement of the local development evaluation practice in the Target region
Two expert staff are responsible for the Evaluation Unit programme of work and the activities are largely supported by the Trento Centre as well as LEED technical staff
The first year of activities has been accepted through out the target region with vivid interest and positive response from the local development actors confirming that the objectives of the Evaluation Unit are meeting actual needs and challenges faced in the are of local development in CEE and SEE countries
The Programme of work for 2006 has been positively accepted by the Directing Committee of the LEED Programme at its ?? Session in Prague

4. Objectives of the Evaluation Unit
Promote more and better quality evaluation of local development strategies
Assess the state of local development evaluation in CEE and SEE countries, identify the main obstacles and provide remedies
Promote a culture of evaluation
Identify, and disseminate best practice local development evaluations
Establish and develop a network in the target countries bringing together policy makers, experts and practitioner both among individual target countries as well as between the target regions and other OECD member countries.

5. Activities of the Evaluation Unit
Events, Seminars
Expert Group
Identify the current needs and obstacles faced when aiming at more and better quality evaluation of local development in the Target region.
Networking
Field work, Country visits, Projects’ implementation