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.

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

The figure below draws on the triple A concept (assessment analysis action) to clarify the strategy's three main implementation approaches, which are described below.

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.

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.

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

To achieve this purpose of assessing governance and public administration capacity, there is an alternative approach, namely, the use of criteria based assessment.

One of the fundamental premises of the key principles is that, in guiding tourism development, self regulation is likely to be more effective than statutory regulation because the industry is more likely to take the responsibility and ownership for self regulatory approaches.

(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

The evaluation concludes that UNDP lacks both the capacity and the institutional framework for a systematic, effective gender mainstreaming approach.

Excerpts from OIOS support for the 2004 UNFCCC self evaluation

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 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

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

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.

Recognizing the need for flexible, practical and innovative approaches towards reviewing the options of self determination for the peoples of Non Self Governing Territories with a view to achieving the goals of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism,

Evaluation

The evaluation of gender mainstreaming in UNDP was undertaken to identify gaps and further strengthen the UNDP approach to gender mainstreaming.

Recognizing the need for flexible, practical and innovative approaches to reviewing the options of self determination for the peoples of Non Self Governing Territories with a view to achieving the goals of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism,

UNCTAD's work should be supportive of development goals, taking into account commitments undertaken by member States.

Develop a set of internationally recognized standards and criteria for annual priority AIDS action plans, and a scorecard style tool that countries can use for self assessments of the plans