Set of methods to assess SI implications at different levels: instructions for WPs 5 and 6. Deliverable D4.2, Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas Project (SIMRA), Demonstrator to the European Commission.

The report (Deliverable 4.2 of SIMRA project) presents a preliminary set of integrated methods for measuring social innovation and its impacts on the components of territorial capital for use in Work Package 5 (case studies), and evaluating the policy implications of social innovation at different levels for use in Work Package 6 (policy analysis). It provides the framework to guide evaluation of social innovation in the case studies, explaining the various elements and components of social innovation in marginalised rural areas; it provides an overview of the approach to evaluation, in terms of scale of application, focus of the analysis, criteria of evaluation, methods and tools; it provides the list of questions to be used in structured and semi-structured interviews and other data collection tools; and, finally, it provides instructions for testing the use of the proposed methods and tools in a few, selected pioneer case studies and policy analysis (i.e. it provides guidance to SIMRA Work Packages 5 and 6).