The self evaluation exercise looked at strengths and weaknesses and pointed to areas where the Office could be improved.

This self assessment and review process was supplemented by other initiatives to explore a wide range of perspectives on the secretariat's activities.

C. Promoting self evaluation

(b) Self assessment by staff members

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

E. Timing of the evaluation process

Adaptation was also a key element considered in the self evaluation.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

The Working Group concluded that there are current gaps in the organizational learning process and shortcomings in the availability and quality of evaluation and self evaluation findings.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

The evaluation process is supported by independent domain experts.

As a result, they lose their ability over time to evaluate critically their own actions and errors.

The measures being implemented will include improvements in data collection and monitoring systems and strengthening of self evaluation.

Initiatives by the secretariat in the context of the internal review of activities 14 Excerpts from OIOS support for the 2004 UNFCCC self evaluation 15 Synthesis of the submissions from Parties 16

Preparation of documents emerged as a priority area for improvement also in the secretariat's self assessment.

Identify areas for further improvement of the document management system, following the completion of the self evaluation project

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.

The entire process of evaluation until drug release took around an hour to complete.

The self assessment reports were synthesized at programme level and then peer reviewed by other programmes.

Sources UN Habitat self assessment report, OIOS interviews and desk review of relevant documents.

(a) Senior management needs to unequivocally emphasize self evaluation as a priority

One important step in promoting self evaluation has been the incorporation of a specific section on evaluation planning at the subprogramme level, in the programme budget instructions issued in September 2004.

The meta evaluation of the quality of UNICEF supported evaluations revealed the need to take energetic action to strengthen national evaluation at the country level.

This report is organized around the core questions originally posed to the MA

Training in methods of evaluation and self evaluation should be arranged by the Office of Policy and Programme Coordination (paragraph 50) (SP 04 002 012).

(c) Self evaluation should be seen as providing an opportunity for lesson learning and corrective action initiated by programme managers.

Information (although mostly qualitative) was also available from the experts that were present for this evaluation.

His Group supported the evaluation process in its current format, involving representatives of both donor and beneficiary countries in the evaluation team, and underlined the need to provide the necessary support for the evaluators and the secretariat for future evaluations.

His Group supported the evaluation process in its current format, involving representatives of both donor and beneficiary countries in the evaluation team, and underlined the need to provide the necessary support for the evaluators and the secretariat for future evaluations.

The African Group supported the recommendations of the evaluation report in general, and in particular the recommendation to improve financial and budgetary planning, as well as to strengthen the evaluation process.

There is agreement, however, that the major obstacles to self evaluation are an uneven commitment from programme managers shortage of time and resources and a lack of guidance, training and consistent monitoring of self evaluation.

The proposed inward redeployment of a P 5 post in exchange for a P 4 post would strengthen the technical capacity of the Department in self evaluation and performance management, which is at the core of the Organization's reform process and in line with results based management.

While one of the main current ECA commitments was to strengthen evaluation, OIOS observed that evaluation and self evaluation activities at subregional offices remain weak.

Therefore, criteria based assessment shows potential as one alternative, as long as the views of citizens and community groups are incorporated throughout the assessment process, including during the determination of the assessment criteria.

The recommendations in the evaluation provide a good starting point for putting the legalisation process on the right track.

The African Group supported the recommendations of the evaluation report in general, and in particular the recommendation to improve financial and budgetary planning, as well as to strengthen the evaluation process.

Senior managers should ensure that self assessment is used to promote effective programme management (see annex, action items 12 14).

The implementation of the standards is a long term endeavour and is expected to continue throughout the evaluation process and beyond.

(b) Managers should be encouraged to view self evaluation as an integral part of planning and assessing their work and not as an optional extra

Moreover, as a result of the peace process initiated by the Government, the self defence groups had declared a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities.

The evaluation process would however give a fair warning when a minority group would be significantly discriminated against by a certain policy.

Outreach and strategic engagement activities will culminate in a GEO Forum a major intergovernmental and multi stakeholder event organized to consider the GEO 4 assessment findings and broaden its audience.

It was also noted that the next thematic evaluation should result in a report with actionable conclusions and recommendations.

On the latter point, we are pleased that the start up phase of the Global Marine Assessment (GMA) has now been agreed.