But to make ratings work, the raters need to be rated.

Evaluation

The evaluation of gender mainstreaming in UNDP was undertaken to identify gaps and further strengthen the UNDP approach to gender mainstreaming.

UNCTAD's work should be supportive of development goals, taking into account commitments undertaken by member States.

(b) Self assessment by staff members

Rating agencies have been and should remain an important aspect of modern capital markets. But to make ratings work, the raters need to be rated.

Evaluation

(c) Evaluation.

(c) Evaluation

(d) The number of field led evaluations

The evaluation exercise was overseen by the Evaluation Office with the close involvement of the headquarters of the Regional Bureau for Arab States and was conducted applying a mix of direct and meta evaluation techniques utilizing the findings of in depth outcome evaluations of individual programmes conducted in advance of the exercise.

Because of this, citizen assessment and governmental transparency are increasingly considered primary components of effective assessment activities.

E. Management evaluation

Rating the Raters

Strengthening evaluation

Programme questions evaluation

(i) Thematic evaluation

(ii) In depth evaluation

E. Evaluation activities

Evaluation cCriteria

Engage civil society and the NGO community in UN reform activities.

Sources for assessment

Independent Evaluation Unit

General assessment of investigation

Independent evaluation

The new global Evaluation Committee adopted a plan of action to strengthen the evaluation function throughout UNICEF.

A review of the Evaluation Unit's work plan to date also shows that its actual focus was more limited than stated by the policy.

OEDE provided guidance and support to the regional bureaux and country offices to build up evaluation capacity for effective conduct of decentralized evaluations.

Encourages the Evaluation Office to pay more attention to concrete development results that have been achieved and follow up on the recommendations of previous evaluations

Step one choosing the target of the assessment

The main thrust for the biennium will be that of expanding the culture of evaluation throughout UNODC, both through training as well as more direct involvement of the Unit in individual project level evaluations.

Governments also agreed to pursue evaluation studies based on the evaluation framework where appropriate.

The present report provides a summary of the findings of the independent evaluation carried out by the Evaluation Office from March to May 2005.

This can be done by making raters profits depend not on satisfying the issuers that select them, but on performing well for investors.

E. Timing of the evaluation process

Continuing assessment processes

C. Evaluation and policy analysis

Introduction (Directors of Evaluation and Programme)

Environmental assessment and early warning

(f) Revising the evaluation system

C. Strengthening the culture of evaluation

These norms and standards are now being applied in self assessments of each agency's evaluation activities.

C. Millennium Development Goal 8 criteria for evaluation

International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development

Lessons from criteria based assessment activity