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Finland’s development policy 2012 =

HRBA & gender

Training for staff and consultant =

Knowledge, skills, will

New evaluation manual 2013 = HRBA & gender

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Shared framework for NECD

•UNEG Chair and UNEG NECD TF Co-chair• WB VP and DG IEG• OECD/DAC EvalNet NECD TF chair• IOCE President

Human rights and gender equality in development evaluation – What capacity is needed within the UN?

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Enabling environmentSYSTEM-WIDE Policy:

CEB System-Wide Policy on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2006)

Accountability system: UN System Wide Action Plan on Gender and UN Women’s Coordination Role (2012), including UN

SWAP Evaluation Performance Indicator

Annual reportingOpportunities to raise senior management attention:

Joint evaluation of Joint Gender Programmes (UNW, UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, MDG-F, Spain, Norway) Joint meta-analysis of gender mainstreaming, results and evaluation systems (interested?)

AGENCY-SPECIFIC:Board demand for HR&GR (Finland)Gender-responsive Evaluation Policy (UNW)Meta-evaluation system, including HR&GE (UNW)Annual report on evaluation function – including HR&GE - to Board

Institutional capacity

SYSTEM-WIDE (Norms & Standards, operationalized by guidance and systems)UNEG Norms & Standards, including HR&GE

HR&GE as the 6th evaluation criteria

UNEG TF on HR&GE UNEG guidance on HR&GE Manages UN SWAP Evaluation Performance Indicator reporting system, including

guidance and training 2014 piloting and revision/finalization

AGENCY-SPECIFIC:Meta-evaluation system, including HR&GE (UNW)

Individual capacity

SYSTEM-WIDE E-learning on HR&GE in partnership with EvalPartners (and EvalNet?)

AGENCY-SPECIFIC:•Internal training

Human rights and gender equality in development evaluation – What capacity is needed with partners countries?

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An international collaborative initiative with 34 key partners and others still joining

Centrality of HR&GE in Chiang Mai Declaration

Enabling environmentGLOBAL (HR&GE central)EvalPartners Advocacy Strategy2015 declared as International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear)

International NEC Conference, Brazil UNEG

UN SG speech at 2013 UN Evaluation weekUN Resolution (process with regional groups – including WEOG - more important) Global EvalYear event in 2015

LOCAL (HR&GE central) Regional and national EvalYear declarations (by VOPEs):

Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Kenya, Israel, Malaysia, Morocco, Philippines, Romenia, Slovenia, Thailand

Afrea, EvalMena, CoE, ReLAC, etc

South Asia Parliamentarian Forum Public Hearing at the European Parliament (Led by EES)

Institutional capacityGLOBALAdvocacy for evaluation toolkit Mapping of National Evaluation Policies Guide on engendering National Evaluation Policies and systems

LOCAL:Technical assistance to engendering National Evaluation Polices and systems in Latin America and Caribbean and South Asia Peer to Peer mutual support programme (25 projects with 30 national & 6 regional VOPEs)

Innovation Challenge (5 selected)

Peer to Peer mutual support programmeInnovation Challenge

Individual capacity

GLOBAL E-learning on advocacy for evaluation MyM&E, Knowledge management system which include electronic resource center on HR&GE (2 million hits)

LOCAL:F2F training on advocacy for evaluation

In conclusion:

1. Policy, accountability framework, training, reporting2. Strengthen policy makers attention

– Creating opportunities for engagement

3. Join forces creating synergies based on the specific comparative advantage of each stakeholders:

– EvalPartners (EvalNet, Finland, USA, Spain, Switzerland) – UNEG Strategic Objective 4 on partnership (with EvalNet, ECG, EvalPartners)