Examples of using Evaluation units in English and their translations into Arabic
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Observations were made on annex I of the report concerning the capacity within departments to undertake evaluation and the fact that some large programmes did not appear to have evaluation units. It was noted that OIOS itself had four Professional evaluators.
The 2009 annual report on evaluation assesses the progress made by the Evaluation Office and the Evaluation Units of the associated funds and programmes in fulfilling the evaluation function outlined in the UNDP Evaluation Policy.
A reference group was established comprising representatives from the Joint Inspection Unit, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the United Nations Evaluation Group, as well as the evaluation units of the Office of Internal Oversight Services and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
(f) Similarly, thematic evaluations in such areas as gender equality, poverty alleviation or aid coordination are most often scheduled and managed by headquarters evaluation units in response to demands from either executive management or the organization ' s governing body.
The report of the Evaluation Units of WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA, which contains the findings and recommendations of the joint review of the WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA Coordinating Committee on Health, is contained in WHO document EBPDC10/5(Annex), which is being made available in all official languages to the Executive Board.
Progress on those issues has been gradual, although the United Nations Evaluation Group, with voluntary membership of 43 evaluation units, is particularly active, producing key guidance documents, including the Handbook on Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluations-- Towards United Nations Evaluation Group Guidance.
The Evaluation Office has also forged strong partnerships with the evaluation units of the British Department for International Development(of the Government of the United KingdomDFID), and Danish, Dutch and German government agencies, and mobilized financial support to refine corporate methodological tools as well as and strengthen evaluation capacity in programme countries.
(v) Considerable efforts are being made by headquarters evaluation units to develop and update manuals, guidelines, tools and instruments, and to produce generic terms of reference, as a means of ensuring the quality of the evaluation process, although the added value of these efforts has not yet been assessed;
referral for mediation may be made by the management evaluation units, the United Nations Dispute Tribunal,
In September 2009, the General Assembly, in its resolution 63/311 on system-wide coherence, surprised us with a discreetly prepared paragraph 8, which puts the Joint Inspection Unit on an equal footing with a group of professional practitioners working in the evaluation units of many organizations of the system.
The Panel also believes that it is important for there to be a single independent external audit function. If, as has been proposed, there is a second external agency also reporting to the General Assembly covering the work now undertaken by the Internal Audit Division and other central evaluation units, there would be a number of problems.
best international evaluation standards, while appointments at this level are unlikely to be viable in the evaluation units of small associated funds and programmes.
Evaluation units in the 43 United Nations system agencies and entities have been working together in the United Nations Evaluation Group(UNEG) to establish common norms and standards for evaluation in the United Nations system, strengthen the evaluation capacity in the United Nations system, promote joint initiatives among the organizations, and facilitate support to Member States in building their evaluation capacity.
The priorities of the Evaluation Office and the evaluation units of the associated funds and programmes during the reporting period included: to improve the quality of independent evaluations;
Based on the varying capacity for evaluations of United Nations system organizations, any entity designed or constituted to perform a system-wide evaluation function, as per General Assembly resolution 63/311, will likely be more effective if designed or constituted with flexibility, in order to maximize participation and collaboration among the evaluation units of various organizations.
The review notes that the evaluation units of the associated funds and programmes have developed in quite different ways, and recommends that the policy should incorporate new and flexible approaches as follows: evaluation units should be required to either submit their independent evaluations to the Independent Evaluation Office for quality assurance(to ensure comparable" best international evaluation standards");
From data and recent studies of the United Nations Evaluation Group, including from the Office of Internal Oversight Services(OIOS)(see A/66/71), it is evident that evaluation units possess limited staff capacity, and only few agencies, for example, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS), UNICEF, UNDP and UN-Women, have decentralized the evaluation function.
Review recommendation 4. The review notes that the evaluation units of the associated funds and programmes have developed in quite different ways and recommends that the policy incorporate new and flexible approaches, as follows: evaluation units should be required either toevaluation standards"); or to collaborate directly with IEO to manage and report on their independent evaluations. .">
The multilateral development banks also have highly centralized, headquarter-based evaluation units.