Evaluation serves three main purposes. It strengthens accountability, evidence-based decision making and learning. It is governed by the evaluation policy, approved by the Executive Board. The Evaluation Office reports directly to the Executive Board, including through the Annual Report on Evaluation.
UNFPA conducts centralized evaluations to assess organization wide issues, and decentralized evaluations of country and regional programmes. All UNFPA evaluations are publicly available together with their management response. A quadrennial budgeted evaluation plan, approved by the Executive Board, provides a basis for monitoring and reporting on the evaluation function.
The Evaluation Office prioritizes enhancing the use of evaluations to contribute to evidence-based decision making; intensifying coherence with other UN entities; and strengthening national evaluation capacities through multi-stakeholder partnerships, including with young and emerging evaluators. To propel the global evaluation community toward the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the Evaluation Office co-leads the Decade of EVALUATION for Action, also known as the Eval4Action campaign.
News on Evaluation
Now available! Mid-term evaluation of the Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Phase III 2018-2022
New evaluation released
Now available! Guidance on integrating the principles of leaving no one behind and reaching the furthest behind in UNFPA evaluations
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2021 Annual Report on evaluation presented to the Executive Board
Adaptive evaluation for an adaptive organization
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Key documents
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Guidance on integrating the principles of leaving no one behind and reaching the furthest behind in UNFPA evaluations
This guidance provides key considerations for integrating the principles of leaving no one behind and…
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Annual Report on the evaluation function 2021
Learn about the performance of the evaluation function at UNFPA in 2021, including in the context of the…
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UNFPA quadrennial budgeted evaluation plan, 2022-2025
A framework to guide the commissioning, management and use of evaluations at UNFPA
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Evaluation Office reports
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Joint Independent Common Country Programme Evaluation: Republic of Cabo Verde
The Republic of Cabo Verde is a lower middle-income country with a stable democracy. It faces some structural…
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Mid-term evaluation of the Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Phase III 2018-2022
The Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund (MHTF) is a key contributor to the UNFPA presence and…
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Joint evaluation of the UN Joint Programme on AIDS’s work on efficient and sustainable financing
The Evaluation Offices of UNAIDS and UNFPA, in collaboration with WFP, have jointly managed an independent…
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Guidance on disability inclusion in UNFPA evaluations
Integrating disability inclusion dimensions in UNFPA evaluation methodology and Evaluation Quality Assurance…
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Evaluation Quality Assurance and Assessment: Tools and Guidance
Templates, tools and guidance for quality assurance of the evaluation process and quality assessment of the…