2013 report on the evaluation function of un-women
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2013 Report on the Evaluation Function of UN-Women. Executive Board Meeting June 2014 New York, NY Marco Segone Director, UN Women independent Evaluation Office. I. The Evaluation Function . The Evaluation Policy became effective in 2013 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
2013Report on the
Evaluation Function of UN-Women
Executive Board MeetingJune 2014
New York, NY
Marco SegoneDirector, UN Women independent Evaluation Office
• The Evaluation Policy became effective in 2013 • The strategic goal of the evaluation function is to
strengthen UN-Women’s capability to achieve • Normative, • Operational, and • UN Coordination
I. The Evaluation Function
• The Evaluation Policy outlines the governance system of the evaluation function
• The USG/ED is the main champion of Evaluation within UN-Women
• The Director of the independent Evaluation Office reports directly to the USG/ED, and annually to the Executive Board
• A Global Evaluation Advisory Committee established
Governance of the Evaluation Function
• IEO established the Global Evaluation Oversight System
• A dashboard presenting, in a user-friendly
manner, key performance indicators for the evaluation function
Performance of the Evaluation Function
1.3% of total UN-Women expenditure invested in the evaluation function
KPI 1: Financial resources invested in evaluation
• At HQ: 9 staff members: 5 mid-level professionals, 2 general service staff and 1 consultant
• The post of Evaluation Chief upgraded to Director Post (D1)
• At decentralized level: 4 Regional Evaluation Specialists
• 24% of country offices have M&E officers, 59% M&E Focal Points and 17% no M&E Focal Point
KPI 2: Human resources
• 67% of country offices conducted at least one evaluation (2011 to 2013)
• All impact areas of the UN Women’s Strategic Plan covered
• 1/4 of evaluations were joint evaluations
KPI 3: Coverage and types of evaluations managed
• 82% implementation rate (55% completed and 27% ongoing)
• 18% planned but not implemented (14% not initiated and 4% cancelled)
KPI 4: Implementation rate of planned evaluations
• 100% reports uploaded and made available in the public website (GATE)
KPI 5: Submission rate of completed evaluation reports to the GATE
KPI 6: Quality of evaluation reports
• 85% rated as “satisfactory” and above (26% rated very good)
• 4 reports (15%) rated as “unsatisfactory”
KPI 7: Use of evaluation, including management response
• 85% of completed evaluations with management response developed and uploaded
• 88% of the 407 actions committed in 2012 being implemented (58% completed and 30% ongoing); 4% not initiated and 8% have no specific deadline
• 89% of evaluations managed at the decentralized level
• Systems to enhance decentralized evaluation established and strengthened
• Technical support, oversight and quality assurance delivered by Regional Evaluation Specialists
• Costed evaluation plans aligned with Strategic Notes
• Internal evaluation capacity development
Decentralized Evaluation System
• Gender-responsive evaluations through the United Nations Evaluation Group promoted
UNEG Vice-Chair Co-led the UNEG Task Force on National Evaluation
Capacity Development Active member of other task forces
• System-Wide Action Plan (SWAP) on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: systematizing and harmonizing reporting on evaluation
Led the piloting of the UN-SWAP scorecard Organized training sessions, webinars, and UN-SWAP help-
desk function 58 entities reported against the UN-SWAP indicators
II. System wide coordination on evaluation
• System-wide Evaluation Policy• Contributed to the consultation leading to the development
of the system-wide Evaluation Policy through UNEG• Inclusion on gender equality in the norms and standards for
system-wide evaluation
• Strengthening regional UN evaluation groups• Supporting joint evaluations and UNDAF
evaluations• 1/4 of UN-Women evaluations were joint evaluations• UNDAF evaluations
• The Gender Equality Evaluation Portal: evidence-based knowledge on the internet • 352 reports from 55 different agencies (an increase of 20%
from last year)
II. System wide coordination on evaluation
III. Supporting Gender-Responsive Evaluation Capacities
• An enabling environment for evaluation strengthened• 2015 declared as International Year of Evaluation• Parliamentarian Forums in South Asia and Africa
• Institutional capacities to demand, manage and use evaluations strengthened
III. Supporting Gender-Responsive Evaluation Capacities
• Individual capacities of evaluators strengthened
III. Supporting Gender-Responsive Evaluation Capacities
Total cumulative number of visitors to EvalPartners’ MyM&E platform
Total cumulative number of page downloads of EvalPartners’ MyM&E platform
• UN Women has a strong evaluation function as demonstrated by its Key Performance Indicators. However, improvements are needed in certain areas
• Independent Evaluation Office is strategically contributing to strengthening gender-responsive capacities within the UN system as well as at national level
• To strengthen UNW evaluation function even further, a UNEG peer review, JIU and OIOS external assessments will be carried out in 2014 and reported in 2015
Conclusions