UNEG Evaluation Competency Framework

Overview

This document provides revised evaluation competencies for the United Nations system. UNEG originally published the evaluation competencies in 2008 for heads of evaluation departments and evaluators. These revisions reflect the substantial consensus that evaluation competencies are important not only for evaluators and evaluation unit heads, but also for evaluation commissioners and users.

Please note that the URL to download this document is: www.unevaluation.org/2016-Evaluation-Competency-Framework.

A Professionalization of Evaluation Concept Paper is also available.

UNEG Evaluation Competency Framework Pilot Review (June 2018)

As part of its efforts to support the evaluation function across 47 member UN agencies, the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) created an updated Evaluation Competency Framework (ECF) in 2016 to standardize the competencies required of evaluators, evaluation unit heads and evaluation commissioners and managers. UNEG’s Professionalisation of Evaluation working group recognized that theoretical frameworks are often difficult to apply in practice and that it was important to develop a set of lessons and best practices. The working group therefore supported the development of six ECF pilot projects at five UN agencies between fall 2016 and spring 2017.

One year later, the working group engaged EnCompass LLC in March 2018 to conduct a review of the pilot projects. The purpose of the review was to analyse the process of piloting the new framework and to draw lessons on the usefulness of the ECF in the areas that had been piloted. In particular, UNEG hoped to answer fundamental questions about the relevance and process effectiveness of the six pilots, including key lessons learned and recommendations for the way forward.

This is a review of the pilot projects to test potential uses of the UNEG Evaluation Competency Framework (ECF). The review was conducted by EnCompass LLC and led by Tessie Catsambas, who was also involved in the WFP pilot.

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