Comparative Study of Effective Governance Structures for the Delivery of Employment Outcomes Internationally and in Britain

Client: Department for Work and Pensions
Description: An international literature review of research and evidence relating to effective practice in developing governance structures to deliver employment support, interviews with key policy practitioners, the development of case studies highlighting effective practice in this field, and comparatives analyses between UK and international practice based on the development of a typology of governance structures. 

Practical Handbook on Developing Local employment Strategies in the EU's new Member States

 

Client: European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities

Description: ECOTEC produced a series of Practical Handbooks for those involved in local employment development in the 12 new Member States of the EU.  This Handbook indicates the best approaches for designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating successful local employment development strategies.  Different versions have been produced for each of the twelve countries, customised to national circumstances and translated into the national language. 

The Handbook is available here.

 

Integrated eGovernment and services for socially excluded groups.
Ecorys worked with DG Information Society to identify how multi-channel services could be targeted efficiently for some of the most socially excluded groups across Europe. The contract (www.mcegov.eu) was undertaken in 2008-2009 but looked ahead to many of the underpinnings of a Big Society by showing how electronic services needed to go alongside traditional channels of delivery using skilled and knowledgeable intermediaries.

 

Mid-term Evaluation of PROGRESS
Client: DG Employment
PROGRESS focuses on activities with a strong European dimension in five key policy areas: employment, social protection and inclusion, working conditions, anti discrimination and diversity and gender equality. ECORYS is undertaking the mid-term evaluation of the programme in order to assess: the degree to which PROGRESS is meetings its objectives, and its continuing relevance; the effectiveness of implementation to date; the efficiency of the use of resources; and its European added value. The results of this formative evaluation will be used to guide the second half of implementation of the programme, as well as feeding into the preparations for PROGRESS II.