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Management Response
to Global Evaluation
Advisory Committee
(GEAC) report
GEAC appreciation
• High level expert advice from the GEAC is
appreciated by UN Women
• Profile of the GEAC members is very rich,
including perspective from Governments,
Evaluation Associations, Academia, Private
Foundations, Multilateral banks and UN entities
Overall Management Response
• UN Women welcomes the report of
the GEAC.
• Very pleased with the overall
finding that UN Women has a
strong evaluation function.
• UN Women has placed importance
on ensuring a strong evaluation
function.
• Evaluation is central to UN
Women’s mission as a means for
achieving gender equality and
women’s empowerment.
• All recommendations were
accepted.
Recommendations
& Management
Response
Recommendation #1: Evaluation
integral to the mission of UN Women
Management Response
• Agreed
• UN Women Senior Management sees evaluation
as a core part of the organization’s mission and a
means through which gender equality and
women’s empowerment can be achieved.
Recommendation #2: Protect
and strengthen IEO
Management response
• Agreed
• In 2014, the IEO was strengthened to ensure it
can fulfill its mandate.
• UN Women will continue to maintain a priority
focus on improving and consolidating the profile
and quality of its evaluation function, both
central and decentralized.
Recommendation #3:
Incentivize Evidence-based Work
Management Response
• Agreed
• UN Women senior managers will continue to place great
importance on the use of evaluative evidence to advance
gender equality and women’s empowerment, including by
using it in UN system wide processes as well as
intergovernmental mechanisms .
• IEO is dedicated to identifying means for enhancing use of
evaluation by better communicating evaluation results and
supporting the tracking of management response.
Recommendation #4:
Strengthen independence
Management response
•
Agreed
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Incorporate a separate budget line for evaluation
activities in the Integrated Budget 2016-2017
with the aim of achieving the target of 3% of
programme budget.
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Propose a solution to protect the tenure of
evaluation staff consistent with the entity HR
policies and standard practice in UN system
agencies.
Recommendation #5:
Review of Evaluation Policy
Management response
• Agreed
• Under the guidance of the GEAC, EDO & IEO will
lead the internal review of the Evaluation Policy
in 2016 taking into account the external
assessments completed by UNEG, JIU and
MOPAN; GEAC recommendations; and policy
recommendations emanating from the SDGs,
QCPR, GA resolution on evaluation and any other
relevant policy recommendations.
• Recommendation re: revision of Evaluation Policy
in 2017.
Recommendation #6:
Delay further peer reviews
Management response
• Agreed
• As in 2014 UN Women evaluation function went through
three external independent assessments, the review of the
Evaluation Policy should be informed by these three
assessments.
Recommendations based on GEAC report
conclusions: UN Systemic Role
Key actions
• Agreed
• UN Women will continue to place great
importance on supporting efforts to:
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fulfill its UN System coordination mandate on gender
responsive evaluation
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Facilitate the provision of gender responsive evaluative
evidence to UN system entities to address emerging
challenges, as well as in informing intergovernmental
normative processes.
Recommendations based on GEAC report conclusions:
National evaluation capacity development
Key actions
• Agreed
• UN Women will continue its work in
strengthening national gender responsive
evaluation capacity, including through global
partnership.
• UN Women will explore opportunities to connect
decentralized evaluations with national genderresponsive evaluation capacity development.