Overview
The Programme reflects UNCTAD’s three pillars of work (research and analysis, consensus-building, and technical cooperation) and synergies between these. Establishing of multistakeholder partnerships reflects an additional element of the Programme to ensure increased coordination and enable enhanced collaboration among actors engaged in e-commerce and the digital economy as well as to prevent overlapping initiatives. The evaluation focuses on documenting results and achievements so far with a view to providing recommendations for improvement of the Programme moving forward. Programme implementation is still at an early stage with several initiatives being in the start-up phase, hence mainly trajectories towards results at outcome level have been possible to assess. This includes an assessment of the suitability of the M&E Framework and established targets and the different implementation modalities applied. The evaluation also considers the extent to which the Programme has managed to mainstream gender equality and apply a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA). The scope of the evaluation includes the entire ECDE Programme in the period 2019-2021 and the extent to which the Programme has managed to operationalise the mandate given at the Nairobi conference.