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UNEG Guidance on the Integration of Humanitarian Principles in the Evaluation of Humanitarian Action

Aug 2024

This guide has been written to provide practical guidance and tools to evaluators and evaluation managers, to integrate humanitarian principles (HPs) into standard evaluations of humanitarian action, and thus to strengthen the attention paid to HPs in evaluations ...

Tag: Guidance

Guidance on Integrating Disability Inclusion in Evaluations and Reporting on the UNDIS Entity Accountability Framework Evaluation Indicator

Mar 2022

The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) provides the foundation for sustainable and transformative progress on disability inclusion through all pillars of the work of the United Nations. The Strategy consists of a system-wide policy and an account...

Tag: Approaches and Methods Gender Equality Guidance Human Rights

Guidelines for the Evaluation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework

Sep 2021

The United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (CF) forms the centre piece of UN reform and represents the collective response of the UN to help countries address national priorities and challenges in achieving the 2030 Agenda. It sees a shift of...

Tag: Guidance UN Reform

Stock-Taking Exercise on Policies and Guidance of UN Agencies in Support of Evaluation of Social and Environmental Considerations (Main Report and Annex)

Feb 2021

This stock-taking exercise is the first step towards developing UNEG system-wide guidance on incorporating environmental and social considerations into all evaluations.  It looks at the extent to which UN agencies reflect environmental and social consideratio...

Tag: Guidance Policy

UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation

Jun 2020

The UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation were first published in 2008. This document is a revision of the original document and was approved at the UNEG AGM 2020. These revised guidelines are con...

Tag: Guidance

Mapping & Review of Evaluation Ethics

Oct 2019

This report was prepared by the UNEG Task Force on Ethics and Code of Conduct and approved for publication at the UNEG AGM 2019. It summarizes the findings of research designed to inform the revision of the UNEG Ethics Guidelines and Code of Conduct. It aims to co...

Tag: Approaches and Methods Guidance Harmonisation Norms and Standards Professionalisation

Guidance on Evaluating Institutional Gender Mainstreaming

Aug 2018

This is is a practical guide designed for UNEG members, policy and programme evaluators and others who advocate for a common approach to assessing progress of institutional gender mainstreaming (GM) in the United Nations system. 

Tag: Gender Equality Guidance Human Rights

Norms and Standards for Evaluation (2016)

Jun 2016

The United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards for Evaluation, adopted in 2005, has served as a landmark document for the United Nations and beyond. For the last ten years, it has been used successfully to strengthen and harmonize evaluati...

Tag: Guidance Norms and Standards UNEG Foundation Documents

Resource Pack on Joint Evaluations

Apr 2014

The Resource Pack is comprised of The Joint Evaluations Guidance Document and The Joint Evaluations Toolkit. These two guidance notes work in tandem to present an interactive overview of the processes and procedures for consideration when undertaking a joint evaluati...

Tag: Guidance Joint

Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluations

Aug 2014

This report was produced by UNEG as an in-depth guidance handbook to serve as a field guide to improve human rights and gender equality responsive evaluation throughout the UN system.

Tag: Gender Equality Guidance Human Rights

UNEG Handbook for Conducting Evaluations of Normative Work in the UN System

Feb 2014

The purpose of this handbook is to guide UN organizations in conducting evaluations of normative work.

Tag: Guidance Normative

Impact Evaluation Guidance Document

Aug 2013

This Guidance Note, used in conjunction with many other recent resources on impact evaluation, provides a sound starting point for UN evaluation bodies wishing to commence conducting impact evaluations.

Tag: Guidance Impact

UNEG Guidance on Preparing Management Responses to UNDAF Evaluations

Nov 2012

Tag: Guidance Joint UNDAF/CF

Practical tips on how to strengthen National Evaluation Systems

Nov 2012

The report was produced by a UNEG Task Force on National Evaluation Capacity Development. It draws from the NECD experiences of the last twenty-plus years, many, though not all of which, have been appropriately documented.

Tag: Capacity development Guidance

Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluation - Towards UNEG Guidance

Mar 2011

The UNEG Norms and Standards highlight the need for people centred evaluation and for evaluators to consider human rights and gender equality in their work but there has continued to be a gap in tools and frameworks for evaluation that fully reflect these considerati...

Tag: Gender Equality Guidance Human Rights Normative

Frequently Asked Questions for UNDAF Evaluations

Sep 2011

These Frequently Asked Questions for UNDAF Evaluations were published in September 2011. They were prepared by the UNEG Joint Evaluation TF in collaboration with UNDOCO. The objective of these FAQ's is to provide answers to questions regarding various aspects of UNDA...

Tag: Capacity development Evaluation function Guidance UNDAF/CF

UNEG Good Practice Guidelines for Follow up to Evaluations

Jun 2010

Endorsed at the UNEG AGM 2010, these Good Practice Guidelines are expected to contribute to better use of evaluation and to improve accountability and organizational learning.

Tag: Articles and papers Guidance UNEG Secretariat

UNEG Quality Checklist for Evaluation Terms of Reference and Inception Reports

Jun 2010

Approved at the UNEG AGM 2010, this quality checklist for evaluation Terms of Reference and Inception Reports serves as a guideline for UNEG members in the design and conduct of evaluations.

Tag: Approaches and Methods Guidance UNEG Secretariat

UNEG Quality Checklist for Evaluation Reports

Jun 2010

Approved at the UNEG AGM 2010, this quality checklist for evaluation reports serves as a guideline for UNEG members in the preparation and assessment of an evaluation report.

Tag: Approaches and Methods Guidance UNEG Secretariat

UNEG Code of Conduct for Evaluation in the UN system

Jun 2008

Tag: Approaches and Methods Capacity development Guidance Professionalisation UNEG Secretariat