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Structural evaluation of the final beneficiaries of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived

During the programming period of 2014-2020, the support from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) was one of the European Commission's (EC) initiatives to contribute to improving the quality of life of the most deprived and reducing social exclusion in the Member States. FEAD provides material support and social inclusion measures to the target groups defined at national level and complements actions that are funded under the ESF as social inclusion activities.

The main objective of the Structural evaluation of the final beneficiaries of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived was to conduct strucutural surveys of partner organisations (N=60, including municipalities, 'Food bank' and the Red Cross) and final beneficiaries (N=1068) of FEAD assistance and evaluate relevance, efficiency and added value of FEAD’s assistance in Lithuania in terms of needs and expectations of the target group.The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) supports national schemes which provide non-financial assistance to address food deprivation and reduce extreme forms of poverty by supplementing the EU Structural Fund and other EU and national policy interventions designated to reduce various forms of poverty and to promote social inclusion of those most deprived. Completed evaluation revealed that FEAD’s food assistance is relevant to the need of the group it targets in Lithuania and had a positive impact on beneficiary households. However, in order to adequately address the poverty problem, distribution of food aid must be accompanied by additional measures aimed at increasing beneficiaries' employment, social inclusion, and access to health and social services.