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

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.

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

C. Information to be used in the evaluation

Evaluation

(c) Evaluation.

(c) Evaluation

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

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.

UNIFEM and UNDP

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.

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

In his introductory remarks, the Director of the Evaluation Office stressed that the uniqueness and strength of evaluation in UNICEF was its decentralized system, and that mid term reviews (MTRs) and major evaluations reflected regional realities and diversities.

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.

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.

The evaluation process is supported by independent domain experts.

An Evaluation Framework and Methodology Report, which sets out the evaluation questions to be addressed and methodologies, was completed in March of 2005.

(i) If features of tenders other than price have been used in the initial evaluation, the results of the initial evaluation of the invitee's own tender

(iii) Evaluations coordination and management of the evaluation of programmes and projects, including the preparation of the annual evaluation report, subprogramme evaluations and project evaluations.

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

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.

In addition, a self evaluation had been undertaken by the Evaluation Office, using as benchmarks the new Norms and Standards for Evaluation in the United Nations System.

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

The evaluation will begin in 2005 and I will submit my recommendations, based on the findings and recommendations of the evaluation, to the General Assembly at its resumed session in June 2006.

The Secretariat should therefore sharpen the focus of the Evaluation Group, refine the assessment criteria for the selection of programmes and enhance reporting and follow up procedures.

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