The Government aims to carry out a second evaluation in 2005, which will specifically examine progress made in resolving the obstacles noted in the first evaluation.

The substantive office reported to the Independent Evaluation Unit every six months on progress made.

47. Notes the progress made by the United Nations operational system in developing and using the common country assessment, and stresses that the formulation of the assessment is meant to be short, light and flexible

Considering the apparent progress made by democracy in the region since the 1990 s, this assessment may seem a little harsh.

The Committee hoped that the Government would adopt measures to promote such evaluation and asked it to keep the Committee informed of the progress achieved.

Prepared by the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Kosovo, 24 January 2005

Pursuant to the request of the Governing Council, the Panel, with technical assistance from the Post Conflict Assessment Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ), has tracked the progress of activities related to the funded projects.

Collaboration at the regional and the country level was further developed through high level and technical joint assessment missions, as well as strategic planning, technical support and partnership mobilization.

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

Institutional scorecards' will help measure progress and account for results through the multi year funding framework (MYFF) as well as track investments through the Atlas system.

It was to be hoped that the simplification and harmonization process would be speeded up by general utilization of CCAs and UNDAFs, joint programming, and the involvement of the specialized agencies in the process.

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.

The task force will examine the kind of criteria that are relevant for assessing progress towards this goal from the perspective of the right to development and the scope for considering additional indicators to supplement the existing list of indicators for periodic evaluation of Goal 8,.

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

Recent methodological advances have enabled us to assess better what contributes to citizens sense of well being, and to gather the data needed to make such assessments on a regular basis.

Evaluation

(c) Evaluation.

(c) Evaluation

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

Moreover, the secretariat submitted the names of experts from the roster to serve as reviewers for the MA reports, and information on the progress of the MA has been sent to the focal points as appropriate.

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.

2.7 Define clearly the goals and objectives of ICT and enhance evaluation, assistance and monitoring and follow up processes in all countries, so as to provide access to progress in the use of ICT as a contribution towards fulfilment of the Millennium Declaration and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Mr. Sunaga (Japan) said that his delegation welcomed the progress made in several areas improved field level coordination as a result of CCAs and UNDAFs a strengthened resident coordinator system and more UN Houses.

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.