Internal Oversight Service
UNESCO’s Decentralized Evaluation System
Evaluation Office
Internal Oversight Service
UNESCO
Evaluation System in
UNESCO
Internal Oversight Service
IOS EO
conducted
strategic
evaluations
submitted
to
Executive
Board
Systemwide, joint
UN, JIU,
partners
CORPORATE
(cross-cutting,
programme, thematic,
impact)
DECENTRALIZED EVALUATIONS
(programme / sub-regional or regional)
DECENTRALIZED EVALUATIONS
(project level / national)
Sector
conducted
evaluations
submitted to
donor
Diagnostic of current state
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Context: UNESCO currently revising its Evaluation Policy provides
unique opportunity
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System of decentralized evaluations recognized as weak (c.f. IEE
and JIU findings)
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Limited inter-linkage between corporate/decentralized
Lack of a corporate knowledge bank for evaluations
Mixed performance for decentralized evaluations
Poor resourcing for DE despite XB guidelines of 1% +
Support requested on ad-hoc basis from IOS Evaluation Office
Weak implementation of existing guidance
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Diagnostic of current state
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Use mostly for donor reporting but not for learning, organizationwide knowledge management or to influence design of new policies
and programmes
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Mostly commissioned by those who designed the programme
(independence issue)
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Absence of quality control mechanism affects credibility and
utilization
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Lack of a consistent management response mechanism, follow-up
and accountability on DE
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IOS EO annual report provides limited synthetic insight into
evaluation results & use of DE
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Proposed new approach
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EO will develop DE plan with the Programme sectors; DE Plan is rolling,
subject to change
Programme sectors responsible for its implementation
To strengthen Quality Assurance, the EO:
- provides common framework (methodology and criteria)
- provides guidance notes & training
- releases funds for evaluation upon its approval of ToR
- creates network of M&E focal points
To strengthen use, EO:
- conducts annual meta-evaluation of DE reports & annual synthesis
reviews of completed DE
- MR and action plans are mandatory & all DE reports publically
available
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