Strengthening Evaluation Use Learning together with UN Women, UN Agencies and national partners
ACHIEVED Evaluation Office Approach Elevation of evaluation use to a strategic pillar of work in the Global Evaluation Strategy 2018-2021 Establishment of an IES communications strategy, e.g. Communications packages for corporate and decentralized evaluations Formal and informal participatory evaluation processes, e.g. survey good practices
Systems Global Accountability and Tracking of Evaluation Use (GATE) system for tracking plans, reports & responses: new recommendations search feature & help desk Global Evaluation Reports Assessment and Analysis System (GERAAS) for assessing quality of evaluation reports Gender Evaluation Consultant Database (GECD) as a repository of vetted evaluators Gender Equality Evaluation Portal with over 500 evaluations
Programmatic Cycle Mandatory evaluation use question included in the Results Management System (RMS) since 2014: “How were evaluations used in your office to generate lessons for programming? Please distinguish between corporate thematic evaluations and others.” Monitoring Evaluation and Research Plans (MERPs): Regional Evaluation Specialist review at the regional level Programme Review Committee (PRC): IES attending at HQ level
UPCOMING 2018 Revamp of evaluation intranet website and public website as a "knowledge hub"
2018
Modification of the GERAAS to include assessment of evaluation use Merging of the RMS and GATE to close the learning loop and systematically record use of evaluative evidence