For the period 2023-2029, Ecologic Institute joined the Core Team of 20 senior experts supporting the European Evaluation Helpdesk for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

As part of the EU CAP Network, the Evaluation Helpdesk’s mission is to ensure the effectiveness of CAP evaluations by specifically assisting managing authorities, national CAP networks, paying agencies, evaluators and the European Commission. The Helpdesk conducts ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of the CAP strategic plan to assessing specific objectives and types of interventions. It also analyses the implementation of CAP interventions by EU Member States and disseminates useful monitoring and evaluation practices among the EU CAP Network.

Ecologic Institute joined the Core Team of the Helpdesk to contribute on assist evaluation of the performance of the CAP with regard to environmental topics, in particular water, soils and climate.