Overview
Mandated by the seventy-eighth session of the Working Party on the Strategic Framework and Programme Budget, the evaluation covers he UNCTAD subprogramme 3, managed by the UNCTAD Division on International Trade and Commodities (DITC). For this purpose, UNCTAD selected an independent evaluation team that conducted the evaluation from March to June 2024, covering the work programme of subprogramme 3 for the period 2020–2023. DITC are organized into five branches of work: (a) commodities; (b) competition and consumer policies; (c) trade analysis; (d) trade, environment, climate change and sustainable development; and (e) trading systems, services and creative economy. It also has a separate programme dedicated to trade, gender and development. DITC implement SP3 through the three UNCTAD pillars of research and analysis, technical cooperation/capacity-building and intergovernmental consensus-building.