Capacity Development and SDGs

The Independent Evaluation Section (IES) delivers products and services in line with its three strategic pillars of mandated work, with Pillar 1 focusing on: Evaluation Capacity Development and SDGs. IES supports UNODC staff in strengthening its capacity for planning, implementing and using evaluations. In addition, IES supports National Evaluation Capacity (NEC). Under this pillar, IES also develops Evaluation Guidelines, Templates and Tools (Unite Evaluations).

Read more below on Evaluation Capacity Development at UNODC. Click further below for more information about National Evaluation Capacity (NEC) and Evaluation and the SDGs. For more information, see also the 2-pager IES Year in Review with achievements in relation to evaluation capacity development.

EVALUATION CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AT UNODC

IES focuses on supporting UNODC staff in Vienna and field offices through enhanced Evaluation Capacity Development to strengthen the use of evaluation results. This includes on-the-job training and daily guidance, with IES seeking the most efficient methods of sharing information, including tailored and targeted webinars for UNODC project managers and evaluation focal points on evaluation processes.

IES also engages with the Strategic Planning and Interagency Affairs Unit (SPIA) on joint trainings on monitoring and evaluation to UNODC staff.

An innovative pilot evaluation capacity development training was carried out in 2022 in close collaboration and cooperation between IES and UNODC's Liaison and Partnership Office in Mexico (LPOMEX).

As part of this collaboration, IES developed and delivered evaluation capacity training sessions to LPOMEX staff. Read more in: Evaluation Capacity Development: Innovative Pilot Activity in Mexico (English); (Spanish). The training was later scaled up and delivered to UNODC staff in Latin America.

IES develops evaluation guidelines, templates and tools for evaluation management, including Unite Evaluations (see the related User Manual).

See IES' website Evaluation Step by Step and Templates & Guidelines, including new guidance on inclusive, gender-responsive and human rights sensitive evaluations, as well as the revised UNODC Evaluation Policy.

Evaluations are undertaken in line with the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards. See UNEG and other UN Resources.

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Capacity Development and SDGs

EVALUATION CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AT UNODC

National Evaluation Capacity

Evaluation and the SDGs