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
Top five, best UNFPA country programme evaluations in 2019
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Now available! Developmental evaluation of results-based management at UNFPA
New evaluation released
New! Getting to zero: Good practices from synthesis of UNFPA country programme evaluations
Just in time for the Nairobi Summit, marking 25th anniversary of the ICPD
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The Maternal Health Thematic Fund contribution to UNFPA Support to Maternal Health
This is an independent evaluation of the Maternal Health Thematic Fund (MHTF) contribution to UNFPA support…
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Cameroon Country Programme Evaluation
The Evaluation Report presents an independent programme-level evaluation of the UNFPA support to Cameroon…
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Bolivia Country Programme Evaluation
The Evaluation Report presents an independent programme-level evaluation of the UNFPA support to Bolivia…
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