Overview
Under the new UN PBF Evaluation Policy 2022-2024, projects with budgets of $1.5 million or less (mainly GYPI projects) are exempt from independent, end-of-project evaluations. Instead, UN PBF committed to conducting an annual Cohort Evaluation of those projects. This evaluation report is the first UN PBF Cohort Evaluation. The evaluation covers the themes of the 2020 GYPI Call and assessed strategic aspects of the GYPI such as the support to local CSOs and partnerships. However, this evaluation is not a thematic evaluation; other UN PBF dedicated reviews have covered these themes and strategic area in greater depth. Findings on these GYPI 2020 themes and strategic areas are integrated in this report alongside findings on the evaluation criteria.