Methodology of Impact Assessment of the Implementation of the Economic and Social Development Program of the Region through the Regional Identity Index

The purpose of the material is to present a new approach of assessing the impacts of regional policy document (Economic and Social Development Program of the Region - ESDPR) through the composite index - the Regional Identity Index (RII). RII is included in the ESDPR as an impact indicator. The difference between output and outcome indicators and impact indicators is that in the case of impact indicators, a longer time span is observed in assessing the benefits of implemented measures. Impact indicators are legally presented as indicators relating to longer-term effects. The key impact of the ESDP is the increase of regional identity among the inhabitants of the region, which should serve as one of the key motivational prerequisites for their higher activation, involvement and participation in endogenous development processes in the region.. In order to evaluate the results of the implementation part of the Economic and Social Development Program of the Region from a certain point of time it is necessary to measure the impact indicators for which the new methodology of creation and evaluation of the composite indicator of the Regional Identity Index (RII) is presented.