Effect Examinations Rigsrevisionen

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Effect ExaminationsRigsrevisionens
Report on the Effect of the Effort Directed
Towards Newly Arrived Immigrants

• Presentation, Druskininkai 4 September, by Vivi
  Krogh Rasmussen

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Agenda

• Background for Rigsrevisionens focus on effect.
• The immigration process in Denmark.
• Subject of examination.
• Summary of results.
• Challenges and experiences.

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Background

• Why focus on effect?
• Peer review.
• Generally increased focus on effect requirement
  for focus on whether the effort works rather
  than on compliance with regulations.
• Purpose of pilot project?
• Gain experience within effect examinations and
  build up competence.
• Clarification of what Rigsrevisionen requires
  from the ministries in this area.
• Develop a manual on effect examinations in
  cooperation with AKF.

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The immigration process in Denmark

• The Ministry of Refugees, Immigrants and
  Integration has the overall responsibility for
  the
• immigration initiatives legislation, tools,
  activities.
• The local councils are in charge of the daily
  effort directed towards newly arrived immigrants
  (government refunds, subsidies) and they set
  up/enter the immigrant integration contracts with
  the immigrants.
• The activities directed towards immigrants
  originate in the Integration Act which stipulates
  three key objectives for the immigration process
• Participation
• Values and Norms
• Self-support

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Introduction programme

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• What is the result of the examination?
• The examination was meant to answer two
  questions
• Are newly arrived immigrants employed after
  completion of the introductory programme?
• Does the Ministry follow-up on the fulfilment of
  the key objectives of the Integration Act?

v / Fifty-fifty employment
v Self-support Values and Norms Participation
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What is the result of the introduction programme?
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Summary of results

• Half of the newly arrived immigrants, who
  completed the introduction programme in 2003 -
  2006, are employed in ordinary jobs.
• Most frequently employed are males, young
  persons and immigrants who have been reunified
  with families that are not refugees.
• The Ministry follows up on the objective of
  Self-support, but not on the objectives of
  Participation, and Values and Norms. Efforts are
  being made to make these objectives concrete
  but progress is slow.
• The Ministry should encourage the local councils
  to uncover and evaluate the immigrants
  competences.
• The Ministry should turn to account the results
  of benchmarking analyses.

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Challenges and experiences

• Compared to Rigsrevisionens examination
• Quality of data is vital data are often
  outdated or have not been collected
  systematically.
• Rigsrevisionen had to conduct its own data
  collection from the local councils and the
  Danish tax authorities tax assessment system.
• Difficult to evaluate the result of our effect
  examination, because the Ministry had not set
  targets for the rate of employment.
• General comments
• External assistance may improve the quality of
  effect examinations in particular if
  consultants are acting as sounding board. Time
  consuming.
• Quality and topicality of data ownership of
  data (e.g. Denmarks Statistics)