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.

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.

Further efforts must be made to hone this function and re create the required capacity, as both the need for policy analysis and the acknowledgement that UNHCR currently lacks this capacity are widely recognized both inside and outside the organization.

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.

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

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

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

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.

In the long run, such arrangements could have the potential to build a self sufficient regional economic network.

P. South South network of Global Environment Outlook collaborating centres for integrated environmental assessment and reporting

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.

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.

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.

(e) Establishment of an interregional virtual community of experts and practitioners of IEA in developing countries on the Internet to identify, document, review and exchange good and innovative practices in environmental assessment and reporting.

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

(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

Proposals were also made in respect of web based and self assessment tools to analyse the needs and priorities of developing countries.

Excerpts from OIOS support for the 2004 UNFCCC self evaluation

However setting up a Teredo relay on a scale beyond that of a single network requires the ability to export BGP IPv6 routes to the other autonomous systems (AS's).

The Economic Commission for Europe will prepare such a strategy in the light of the self evaluation on fund raising activities to be carried out in 2006 2007 and in close coordination with its Executive Committee.

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.

Furthermore, adequate training must be made available and managers held accountable for conducting self evaluation to allow a more effective management culture to take hold in the Organization.

The June 2005 review evaluated positively the transparency achieved by the United Nations Procurement Service website.

The Working Group agreed that promoting more extensive and uniform use of self evaluation requires both top down and bottom up measures.

In addition, the authors of the Joint Inspection Unit report on managing for results stressed that self evaluation should constitute the backbone of any effective evaluation system .

Self Measurement and Self Manipulation

Based on the outcome of the assessment, and in consultation with UNDP, UNIDO would either expand the network of UNIDO Desks, modify the approach and arrangements or extend the duration of the pilot phase.

Many States have engaged in a series of self evaluation exercises, and mutual evaluations , undertaken through regional bodies for countering money laundering that are similar to FATF.

PROPOSALS ON SELF DESTRUCTION, SELF NEUTRALIZAION AND SELF DEACTIVATION

4. Requests the Department of Public Information to continue its efforts to update web based information on the assistance programmes available to the Non Self Governing Territories

Transforming Assessment has a rage of examples of e assessment in web 2.0 and virtual world learning environments (Based at the University of Adelaide, Australia) e assessment section at JISC, UK.

The decision to conduct an annual programme impact review was especially useful, since it introduced self evaluation into the day to day work of all programme managers as a means of institutionalizing performance management.

One speaker suggested that the use of the self assessment tools prepared by OIA be encouraged to help reduce the number of unsatisfactory ratings in country offices.