Study on the use of cost-effectiveness analysis in evaluation in the Commission

This study is designed to help delineating the area of relevance of CEA in the real life of policy and programme evaluation, and the categories of evaluations (or preferably of evaluation questions) that are out of the reach of CEA, The Commission aims to highlight and to synthesise the most significant efficiency related conclusions that have arisen from its evaluations over the last years, To carry out this assignement, Eureval proposes a desk analysis of evaluation reports in order to select cost-effectiveness type conclusions, the selection of two samples (strong CEA conclusions on one side and weaker use of CEA analysis on the other side), an in-depth analysis of both samples, and finally identification of good practices in the EC but also in other international contexts.