Case Studies   The Danish Neighbourhood Regeneration Programme. Kvarterløft in Copenhagen

The need for local monitoring and evaluation

On this background it has been difficult to find locally useful indicators and monitor them. And it might not be the main purpose for this kind of governmental evaluation. But that doesn't change the fact that the local project needs monitoring and evaluation to register the direction of the development.

One of the things that the project workers are working on is to decide on a series of indicators that the project workers can review each year to monitor the process and progress of the local work (also after the end of the programme). There will be indicators on:

• Employment

• Traffic (pollution and numbers)

• Housing (moving patterns etc)

• Social profile (changing income levels etc)

These figures are interesting, but they are not operative. We need to analyse correlations and causal relations to be able to take action. In Kongens Enghave it would for example be very helpful to know more about the causal relations between unemployment, removals and housing structure. These kinds of analyses are needed, but there are no resources for them in the project or for the evaluators to make this kind of work.

On order to gain this kind of analyses the secretariat is working on establishing a partnership between a number of universities and local neighbourhoods in the Kvarterløft programme. The University will be able to provide the project with analyses and facts that we can't get today. An application has been made and the partnership will hopefully be established in 2003.

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