His delegation was pleased that the Fund's value had increased substantially and that actuarial valuations had shown surpluses since 1997.

Emphasis has been on thematic evaluations, which will continue to be conducted, while stakeholders also recognize the value of closer participation by the Unit in project evaluations.

It also supported further improvement in the quality of the CCA and UNDAF, in whose preparation the Government should continue to play the leading role.

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.

This is because people become concerned about being evaluated by others (evaluation apprehension) when a task is simple and individualistic, in turn increasing productivity through social facilitation.

The Secretary General's report on the comprehensive assessment of the United Nations' response to children affected by armed conflict (A 59 331) provided a good basis for further discussions on how to improve the effectiveness of the UN response to the children affected by armed conflict (CAAC) agenda.

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

The process of establishing a culture of evaluation has significantly increased survey activities, which have more than doubled with the introduction of the annual programme impact review (see figure 1).

This represents an increase over the estimated level applied for the biennium 2004 2005 ( 143,365,453 after revaluation at US 1 0.8103).

It called for greater linkage between the advocacy instruments and other programmes and advisory services of UN Habitat and for increased core funding for the global campaigns.

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.

It was important to indicate that the basic element in the evaluation referred to in the new paragraph 6 should be whether the Cooperation Agreement had actually yielded more technical cooperation and better services.

It was agreed that the Working Group might consider formulating additional guidance on means to enhance transparency and objectivity in the use of other policy goals within evaluation criteria (A CN.9 568, para. 101).

Obama s recalibration has accentuated the realist turn in American foreign policy, according to which the US is now willing to intervene only when its immediate interests are at stake.

UNIFEM and UNDP

46. Encourages bilateral donors and the United Nations system to coordinate their efforts more actively at the field level, under the leadership of recipient Governments, inter alia, by using the common country assessment

(f) Heightened management attention to the evaluation function.

Ms. TOUATI (Algeria), speaking on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, welcomed the work of the Evaluation Group and expressed the hope that it would continue with a view to further improving the effectiveness of UNIDO services.

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.