The Independent Evaluation Section (IES) delivers products and services in line with its three strategic pillars of mandated work.
Pillar 3: Knowledge Products, Communication, Partnerships and Innovation: IES synthesizes and aggregates key evaluation results and lessons learned of independent evaluations into innovative knowledge products, such as meta-syntheses. This also includes joint system-wide meta-syntheses developed together with partners of other UN organizations.
In line with UNODC Strategy 2021-2025: "UNODC will conduct evaluations in UNODC's mandated areas of work, as well as utilize evaluation and oversight results to provide information at an aggregate level, for example, through meta-syntheses."
See below IES evaluation-based meta-syntheses of UNODC evaluation reports, thematic evaluation-based analyses, as well as meta-syntheses jointly undertaken with other UN organizations.
For more information, see also the 2-pager IES Year in Review with achievements in relation to evaluation knowledge products and systems.
META-SYNTHESIS: 2017-2018 UNODC EVALUATIONS
This is the third meta-synthesis by IES, with an objective to increase knowledge and awareness of recurring recommendations and lessons learned and increase the utility of evaluation results relating to substantive recommendations in UNODC's mandated area of work. In addition, to contribute to evidence-based decision making at all levels. The analysis covered 31 evaluation reports representing more than USD 300 million of UNODC's budget.
See the full Meta-synthesis Report and the 2-page Infographic sheet.
JOINT SYSTEM-WIDE META-SYNTHESIS: UN GLOBAL COUNTER TERRORISM STRATEGY
IES has led the first ever joint system-wide meta-synthesis of work under the UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy, in coordination with UNODC Terrorism Prevention Branch (TPB) and in cooperation with the UN Office of Counter Terrorism (UNOCT) and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). The exercise responds to UN reforms, which call for aggregate evaluation results to inform policy formulation, as well as requirements for evaluative evidence across individual entities.
The exercise also forms part of a larger strategy to enhance cooperation with other UN organizations on evaluation in the context of preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism.
See the full Meta-Synthesis Report and the 2-page Brief.
UNODC CRIME PREVENTION META-SYNTHESIS
The importance of evaluation to inform policy-making and decision-taking has increased over the past years, driven by United Nations reform initiatives and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this context, IES developed an evaluation-based meta-synthesis of UNODC evaluation results on crime prevention, as well as related evaluation methods and best practices identified in these evaluations to prevent crime.
The innovative product further has a dedicated chapter on preventing violent extremism - one of the themes of the Fourteenth Crime Congress and a UNODC mandated area of work.
See the full Meta-synthesis Report and the 2-page Brief
Meta-synthesis Report of 2015-2016 UNODC evaluations
Meta-analysis Report of 2011-2014 UNODC evaluations
Analysis Report of good practices in UNODC's approach to capacity building (evaluations 2011-2016)
