Monitoring and evaluation of the social economy

Abstract

Efficient monitoring and evaluation of the social economy from Romania represent a challenge for the beneficiary and involved institutions. Some hold backs identified are the institutional invisibility of the social economy sector, the structure of the national accounts and the lack of methods of monitoring and evaluation accepted at an international level. In this article there are suggested a few fundamental principles that would be taken into consideration in order to help the summarizing of approaches of monitoring and evaluation. The impartiality and independence of the evaluation process, the credibility of the evaluation, the participation of actors and the utility of the observations and results of evaluation are fundamental principles that are at the base of doing an efficient evaluation. The research made in the project “Proactive –from marginal to inclusive” have identified more risks and challenges regarding the status of the social economy sector in target-zones of the domain , like the low capacity of local communities of establishing companies of social economy, the lack of financing , the low number of socio-economical entities etc. These results can contribute to the identification of interest domains that must be monitored.