2020 Annual Report on evaluation and evaluation of UNFPA support to gender equality and women ’s empowerment presented to the Executive Board

2020 Annual Report on evaluation and evaluation of UNFPA support to gender equality and women ’s empowerment presented to the Executive BoardkarkaraMon, 06/14/2021 - 10:51 On 10 June 2021, at the Executive Board Annual Session 2021,UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Kanem, commended the Evaluation Office for its nimbleness in adapting evaluation to the COVID-19 pandemic, which generated evidence for an informed recovery and the new Strategic Plan 2022-2025. She further emphasized that when policies and programmes are informed by credible evaluative evidence there is a powerful multiplier effect on sustainable development.Marco Segone, Director, UNFPA Evaluation Office presented the2020 Annual Report on the evaluation function at UNFPA. The annual report captures the performance, key achievements and areas of growth for the evaluation function at centralized and decentralized levels. The report particularly details UNFPA efforts and initiatives to adapt evaluation in a dynamic and real-time basis to the COVID-19 crisis, to inform the global response to the pandemic and to inform evidence-based decision making at UNFPA, particularly in the context of the Strategic Plan 2022-2025.The report also captures the contribution of UNFPA to the UN coherence in evaluation, including through joint and system-wide evaluations and system-wide initiatives to the COVID-19 response. It provides details on UNFPA efforts to strengthen multi-stakeholder partnerships for national evaluation ...
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