European Disability Strategy (2010-2020) – evaluation
Date: 2018-09-28
Institutions: Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission
Subjects: EU employment policy, European social policy



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EVALUATION ROADMAP  (v.05)






Roadmaps aim to inform citizens and stakeholders about the Commission's work to allow them to provide feedback and to participate effectively in future consultation activities. Citizens and stakeholders are in particular invited to provide views on the Commission's understanding of the problem and possible solutions and to share any relevant information that they may have.






Title of the evaluation




Evaluation of the European Disability Strategy (2010-2020)






Lead DG – responsible unit 




EMPL C3






Indicative Planning 


(planned start date and completion date)




Q3 2018 – Q1 2020






Additional Information




http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1137&langId=en 






The Roadmap is provided for information purposes only. It does not prejudge the final decision of the Commission on whether this initiative will be pursued or on its final content. All elements of the initiative described by the document, including its timing, are subject to change.









A. Context, purpose and scope of the evaluation






Context 






The European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (hereafter the Strategy) is a comprehensive multiannual framework which describes a set of objectives and actions for the implementation of the disability policy at EU level. The Strategy aims at promoting a barrier-free Europe and at empowering people with disabilities so that they can enjoy their rights and participate fully in society and economy. The Strategy identifies eight thematic main areas for action (Accessibility; Participation; Equality; Employment; Education and training; Social protection; Health; External action) which mostly contribute to the objective of a barrier-free Europe. Their implementation is supported and accompanied by four general implementation instruments (Awareness raising; Financial support; Statistics, data collection and monitoring; Mechanisms required by the UN Convention).


The Strategy is also the tool for the implementation at EU level of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) which was ratified by the European Union on December 2010.


In February 2017 the European Commission presented a progress report on the implementation of the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020. The progress report took stock of the achievements of the first five years of the Strategy and concluded that its objectives would remain relevant also for the second part of the Strategy.


The evaluation of the Strategy is part of the European Commission's work programme for 2018 for the implementation of the "Rights, Equality and Citizenship" Programme. It is carried also to respect the “evaluate first” principle of the European Commission's "Better Regulation" as Strategy comes to an end by 2020, and with the purpose of supporting possible future actions in this area.






Purpose and scope






The purpose of evaluation is to review the implementation of the Strategy and to assess to which extent the Strategy translated into accurate and/or new policies and planned changes, as well as the way it influenced implementation of the UNCRPD at EU level. Drawing on the available evidence, the results will be used as reference base for possible future policy development.


The evaluation will assess the effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, coherence, and EU added value of the Strategy and will cover all the eight areas for action identified by the Strategy and the Strategy's general instruments.


The evaluation will cover the period from 2010 to mid-2019. The geographical scope of the evaluation is the European Union in its present composition of 28 Member States.






B. Better regulation






Consultation of citizens and stakeholders [max 10 lines]






All consultation activities shall focus on the eight main areas of the European Disability Strategy and on its general instruments. The aim of these consultations is to gather information and feedback/views from key stakeholders.


The preliminary list of stakeholders includes: organizations representing persons with disabilities, Commission services, EU Parliament Committees, disability experts, service providers, organisations of elderly people, representatives of national and regional governments.


-An open online public consultation will be conducted during the first half of 2019. It will run for 12 weeks and will be available in all EU languages. In order to achieve inclusion and participation of all relevant stakeholders, and in particular of persons with disabilities, the online consultation will be conducted in accordance with web-accessibility requirements and standards.


-Targeted consultations will be undertaken and shall include interviews, meetings and questionnaires addressed to a range of selected key stakeholders. To the extent possible and when relevant official existing representative stakeholders' fora will be targeted. Such consultations will mainly be held in English or French.


The qualitative and quantitative data gathered will be used to form conclusions about the evaluation questions for each evaluation criterion (relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, and EU added value). 


A summary of all consultation activities' results will be included in the synopsis report which will be published on the consultation page once all consultation activities are closed.






Data collection and methodology






Existing official legal and policy documents, statistics, studies and surveys in the public domain, including report  on the implementation of the European Disability Strategy and of the UNCRPD at EU level will be used:


-Commission staff Working Document accompanying the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (November 2010)


-Progress report on the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (February 2017)


-Report by the eighth Disability High Level Group Report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (September 2016)


-Concluding observations on the initial report of the European Union (October 2015)


-Report by the seventh Disability High Level Group Report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (July 2015)


-Report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) by the European Union (June 2014)


-Eurostat data sources


-ANED reports


Further evidence will be sought in relation to the most recent policy developments and implementation and by integrating all available information into a single overall evaluation. This work will be carried out by an external contractor during 2019. 


The methodology for the evaluation will be based on both desk research and fieldwork, for the collection, analysis and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data from a broad set of sources.