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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

Compendium of Evaluation Methods Reviewed (Volume 1)

Dec 2020

Choosing appropriate approaches and methods are pre-requisites for credible, independent and useful evaluation exercises in the United Nations. The Compendium of Evaluation Methods Reviewed is a guidance document resulting from discussions among members ...

Tag: Approaches and Methods Programme of Work

Evaluation Use in Practice

Jan 2020

This paper constitutes the continued effort of UNEG to promote the use of evaluation. Four dimensions serve for the analysis of practices about the use of evaluation in UN agencies. The dimensions are as follows: i) in the first place, ways to maximise the relevan...

Tag: Approaches and Methods Programme of Work

Lessons Learned Paper #1 - Quality assurance of decentralized evaluations

Aug 2020

In 2020, the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Interest Group on Decentralized Evaluations started documenting key lessons on specific topics drawing from its webinars with the view to facilitate the dissemination of key lessons among UNEG members and the wid...

Tag: Decentralised Evaluation

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

Third Professional Peer Review of the Independent Evaluation Function of the Global Environment Facility 2019

Apr 2020

Introduction
Executive Summary
1. The evaluation function in the Global Environment Facility (GEF) helps the GEF to become more effective in its pursuit of Global Environmental Benefits (GEBs) and has two overarching objectives:
a. Promot...

Tag: Peer Reviews

Final draft report of the external peer review of the evaluation function at IFAD

Sep 2019

This report presents the findings of an independent External Peer Review (EPR) of the evaluation function of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), initiated by the Independent Office of Evaluation (IOE) and authorised by the Executi...

Tag: Peer Reviews

Professional Peer Review of the ICAO Evaluation Function

Jun 2020

This Professional Peer Review of the evaluation function of ICAO was carried out under the provisions contained in the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Framework for Professional Peer Reviews of the Evaluation Function of UN organizations.Peer Reviews

Implications of COVID-19 on evaluations in ILO

Apr 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused us to re-think how we conduct our work as an evaluation function in order to maintain activities to the extent possible without taking unnecessary risks. In this effort, the Evaluation Office released an operating procedure on 20 M...

Tag: COVID

WFP technical note on planning and conducting evaluations during COVID-19

Apr 2020

Tag: COVID

UNEG Programme of Work 2019-2020

Feb 2020

This document presents UNEG’s Programme of Work for 2019-2020. Agreed deliverables will be presented at the UNEG AGM 2020 (Paris, France, June 2020). 

It reflects the leadership of the UNEG Executive Steering Committee and, more important...

Tag: Programme of Work

Professional Peer Review of the UNESCO Evaluation Function

Jan 2020

This Professional Peer Review of the evaluation function of UNESCO was carried out under the provisions contained in the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Framework for Professional Peer Reviews of the Evaluation Function of UN organizations. It is the first ...

Tag: Norms and Standards Peer Reviews Professionalisation

Shaping Sustainability. The 2030 Agenda in Development Cooperation

Nov 2019

This report was published by the German Institute for Development Evaluation with an article entitle "A new era for evaluations" by Susanne Frueh UNEG Chair 2019-2021 

Tag: Articles and papers Evaluation function

UNEG Strategy 2020-2024

Oct 2019

This UNEG Strategy outlines UNEG's self-defined role, vision and mission, and Strategic Objectives for 2020-2024. It was prepared by an internal Working Group and underwent extensive consultation with the UNEG membership. The new Strategy reflects the current ...

Tag: Capacity development Programme of Work

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

UNEG Principles of Working Together (2019)

Sep 2019

This document represents the fifth iteration of the UNEG Principles of Working Together (PWT).
The PWT were first adopted at the UNEG Annual General Meeting in Geneva, April 2007 and subsequently revised at the AGMs in Nairobi (March 2009), Paris (April 201...

Tag: UNEG Foundation Documents

UNAIDS Evaluation Policy (2019)

Jun 2019

This document presents the UNAIDS' evaluation policy, which draws on inputs and feedback from UNAIDS Cosponsors, Member States, civil society and other partners. It sets out the purpose and use of evaluation; provides definitions, principles and norms; and out...

Tag: Policy