The European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) provides financial support to promote a high levelof quality and sustainable employment, guarantee adequate and decent social protection, combat social exclusion and poverty, and improve working conditions across the EU.

With a view to the regular monitoring of the programme, the EaSI Regulation foresees that ‘the Commission shall draw up an initial qualitative and quantitative monitoring report covering consecutive two-year periods.’ This is the second EaSI Performance Monitoring Report presenting the results achieved by the programme in 2015-2016. It focuses on the products (outputs) delivered by the programme and the benefits they brought in 2015-2016.