In this issue, you will find
- Draft guidelines for the ex ante evaluation of Rural Development Programmes 2014 - 2020.
- The "customer satisfaction"method in Italy that actively involved stakeholders in the evaluation of the National Rural Network Programme.
- Ongoing evaluation system in the Flanders region (BE).
- News in brief about the outcomes of the fourth good practice workshop "From ongoing evaluation towards the evaluation plan" (Vienna 14 May 2012), a meeting of National Rural Networks (Ähtäri, Finland 7-9 May 2012) that reflected on networking as a rural development policy tool, including the evaluation of networks and 11th meeting of the Evaluation Expert Committee (Brussels, 12 June 2012).