The Evaluation Assistant is an internal UNFPA AI platform that extracts and synthesizes evidence from around 300 UNFPA evaluations, to drive timely decision-making and stronger programming.
Launched on 21 May 2026, the Evaluation Assistant is a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to rapidly extract and synthesize evidence from nearly 14 years of UNFPA’s evaluative data and insights. By centralizing around 300 evaluations at global, regional and country level, and 1,400 related documents—including management responses—it provides real-time access to insights on what works, what doesn't, for whom, and why. The platform empowers UNFPA personnel to instantly ground their strategies, programme design, and decision-making in an extensive evidence base.
The Evaluation Assistant features three core capabilities designed to transform how UNFPA utilizes evaluative evidence.
Multi-level synthesis integrates evidence across country, regional, global, and thematic levels, tailoring insights for specific audiences.
Document comparison allows users to upload drafts—such as country programme documents, policies, strategies or research papers—to compare them against the entire evaluation database, providing an immediate assessment of how well a new proposal aligns with evaluative evidence.
Advanced visualization complements these text-based insights by generating dynamic charts, tables, and evidence maps that highlight emerging trends and evidence coverage and gap analyses.
Guided by the IEO’s strategy for the responsible and ethical use of generative AI in evaluation, the platform maintains human verification at its core. Every citation is interactive; a single click opens the source document, allowing users to verify the evidence at its source. To ensure transparency, each reference includes an evaluation quality assessment (EQA) rating for the underlying evaluation report and a relevance score measuring how precisely the retrieved evidence aligns with the user’s query.
By automating the labor-intensive tasks of evidence discovery and synthesis, the Evaluation Assistant empowers evaluators and programme teams to focus on high-level strategic analysis. The Evaluation Assistant is one of two specialized tools within the UNFPA Knowledge Portal operating alongside the Knowledge Agent—a tool designed for natural-language searches across the organization’s broader knowledge resources. Together, these applications represent a significant leap forward in making UNFPA’s institutional knowledge easier to discover, connect, and apply.
This article was written with AI support with human authors in the lead.
