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The Welsh Economy and Labour Market Evaluation and Research Centre (WELMERC) is a part of the School of Business and Economics of Swansea University. It was established as a result of funding from the European Social Fund, with the aim of providing evidence-based economic policy advice. Among other objectives, one is to undertake evaluation analysis of Objective One spending on terms of impacts on labour market activity and value for money.

De Evaluatiegroep Overheid en Bedrijf, voert beleidsevaluaties uit voor Rijk, provincies en gemeenten en voor bedrijven. Daarnaast is zij gespecialiseerd in het monitoren van beleid-in-uitvoering. Ook geeft de Evaluatiegroep adviezen over hoe nog uit te voeren beleidsprogramma’s achteraf het beste geëvalueerd kunnen worden. ***** The Evaluatiegroep Overheid en Bedrijf (Evaluation Group for Government and Business) performs policy evaluations for the Dutch central government, provinces, municipalities and NGO´s and for companies as well. It also specialises in monitoring policy implementation, as well as providing advice on the best way to evaluate policy programmes that still have to be implemented.

Interface Politikstudien Forschung Beratung ist eine private Beratungsfirma mit Sitz in Luzern, Schweiz.
Ein zentraler Aspekt der Unternehmensphilosophie ist es, wissenschaftliche Expertise für die Praxis zu nutzen. Daher ist der Firmenname Interface Programm: Wissenschaft in den Dienst der sozialen und politischen Praxis zu stellen.
Interface ist unter anderem spezialisiert in der Evaluierung öffentlicher Politik, in der Durchführung summativer und formativer, Ex-ante-, Ex-post und Meta-Evaluationen, in der Entwicklung von Evaluationskonzepten für Politikprogramme sowie in der Unterstützung bei Selbst-Evaluationen.
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Interface Institute of Political Studies is a private consulting firm located in Lucerne, Switzerland.
A key aspect of its company policy is to present scientific expertise in such a way that it can be put to practical use. Hence the company name Interface constitutes the agenda: Putting science in the service of social and political practice.
Interface specialises, among others, in evaluation and assessment of public policy, conducting summative and formative evaluations, ex-ante, ex-post and meta evaluations, developing evaluation concepts for policy programs and measures and providing support with self-evaluations.