Ocena efektywności wybranych aspektów programu pomocowego PAOW w Małopolsce

Evaluation of Effectiveness of Some Aspects of Rural Areas Promotion Programmes in Malopolska

The paper presents general aspects of Rural Areas Promotion Programmes in Malopolska. It outlines the basic concept of introducing different kinds of social and economic aids and methods of their evaluation. Evaluation seems to be the essential tool for decision making.  Effectiveness in public policies is not a goal itself, but the way to reach it. All activities that are meant to approach the goal make effectiveness a measurable category. Implementation of public policy aims not to estimate the result as it is measured by economic parameters, but to measure its effect in social area.  Rural areas in Malopolska are very demanding. Due to many unfavourable factors they are left behind in many areas of social and economic development. Public intervention seems to be the only way to make up the distance. Rural Areas Promotion Programmes are planned to finance sustainable development of rural areas.  The research carried out in the paper shows the attitude of communes of Malopolska voivodship towards introducing programmes for social aids.