A good intervention logic starts with identifying the needs, their corresponding objectives and how the available budget can be allocated to the various objectives/actions. Once the budgeting has been done, the available budget can be used in calculating the targets.
No, for either result or output indicators, targets and baselines (where applicable) may be presented broken down by gender in the OP, but this is not a requirement and they can also be expressed only as a total. Note however, that data on all common indicators for participants have to be reported broken down by gender in the AIR (in addition to the total value). Programme-specific indicators data may also be reported broken down by gender, but this is not a formal requirement.
If an intervention has a target group that is multidimensional (and so are the corresponding target values for the result indicators), appropriate programme-specific result indicators should be set. In this case, the column “common output indicator used as basis for target setting” would indeed remain empty (N/a) and the basis should be specified in the name of the indicator.
The SFC has a drop-down menu that filters automatically the common output indicators to be used as basis. The general rules for the drop-down menu are as follows:
i) Only common output indicators which are relevant to the common result indicator are displayed. For example, this excludes:
No. Target values for result indicators do not need to be set in reference to all output indicators, only to the relevant ones depending on the main target group. The output indicators used as reference should reflect the main target group in the investment priority concerned. Note that some restrictions apply regarding to which common output indicators can be selected for each result indicator.
Targets for common result indicators shall be set in function of the data reported for common output indicators. In accordance with the EC Guidance document on Monitoring and Evaluation based on the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 288/2014 which includes the model for operational programmes (see table 4), it is not possible to set a target for a common result indicator without choosing a common output indicator as reference (this in SFC means that the field is mandatory).
For the performance framework, milestones and targets should be set at the level of priority axis based on indicators which are a subset of already selected programme indicators (see Guidance fiche performance framework review and reserve in 2014-2020, p. 6).
No. Baseline values are not to be included into the target value.
Indeed, each indicator and each target shall be broken down by category of region (with the exception of YEI indicators). Hence the data sets submitted for each indicator cover only one single category of region (i.e. common indicators must be reported broken down by category of region).
Following a learning seminar organised in 2013 by the EC, two background papers present methodologies for setting and adjusting quantified cumulative targets related to employment and social inclusion (“ESF performance target setting and adjusting in social inclusion” and “Setting and adjusting targets for ESF Operational Programmes”), available at: http://ec.europa.eu/esf/main.jsp?catId=67&langId=en&newsId=8174
