This evaluation is still pending.

A. Project evaluations 119 21 B. Thematic evaluations 120 121 21

Conduct project evaluation and thematic evaluation

The data sets were currently being statistically assessed.

Proposals have been received and the technical and cost evaluations are ongoing.

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Objectives of the evaluation

A. Project evaluations 121 127 21

7.1. The objective of evaluation is

A review of the Evaluation Unit's work plan to date also shows that its actual focus was more limited than stated by the policy.

A pilot on self evaluation is currently under way with the assistance of OIOS.

(b) The number of project evaluations led by the Unit during 2006 2007

Project monitoring and evaluation

149. There is an ongoing process of capacity building in the field of evaluation at the country level.

2. Evaluation of technical cooperation projects

In 2004, UNIFEM finalized three programme evaluations and three project evaluations.

(e) It is difficult to make a definitive assessment of the current status of international space law.

His Group supported the evaluation process in its current format, involving representatives of both donor and beneficiary countries in the evaluation team, and underlined the need to provide the necessary support for the evaluators and the secretariat for future evaluations.

Programme questions evaluation (item 4 (c))

IAIA apos s goals are

The work should thus contribute to setting standards for such methodologies in such areas as pre project situation assessment and project monitoring and evaluation.

Emphasis has been on thematic evaluations, which will continue to be conducted, while stakeholders also recognize the value of closer participation by the Unit in project evaluations.

31. Several major reviews, which form the Inspection and Evaluation Service apos s initial 1997 evaluation work programme, are currently in progress and include the following subjects

Five minutes to assess progress and evaluate obstacles on the path to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals is very little time.

While one of the main current ECA commitments was to strengthen evaluation, OIOS observed that evaluation and self evaluation activities at subregional offices remain weak.

Item 5. Criteria for the evaluation of Millennium Development Goal 8

The Working Group concluded that there are current gaps in the organizational learning process and shortcomings in the availability and quality of evaluation and self evaluation findings.

C. Millennium Development Goal 8 criteria for evaluation

6. The 1996 Office of Evaluation and Strategic Planning (OESP) evaluation, entitled Global, Interregional and Regional Programmes An Evaluation of Impact, included the evaluation of four RBEC regional projects, namely

During 1996, 24 projects were evaluated compared to 19 in 1995 and 16 in 1994.

(a) A diagnostic phase that determines the project cycle currently being followed and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of existing guidelines on programme project conceptualization and formulation, financing, implementation modalities and the current monitoring and evaluation systems.

In addition, the present methods for evaluating the MDGs hide the growing disparities within disadvantaged populations.

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Project evaluations are carried out by the parties to technical cooperation projects.

Criteria for the evaluation of Millennium Development Goal 8

(d) Backstopping 50 project evaluations (25 per year)

These projects deserve a most positive assessment.

Two multisectoral projects were evaluated.

An independent evaluation of the project is scheduled to take place in 1997.

An independent evaluation of the project took place in December.

Definition of a valuation methodology for insurance purposes

19. The Office agrees with the need to review the evaluation form.

As part of the project evaluation process, UNDCP has started asking evaluators to complete a questionnaire assessing projects on a number of standard dimensions.

The evaluation exercise was overseen by the Evaluation Office with the close involvement of the headquarters of the Regional Bureau for Arab States and was conducted applying a mix of direct and meta evaluation techniques utilizing the findings of in depth outcome evaluations of individual programmes conducted in advance of the exercise.

It is worth recalling that, in addition to the evaluations undertaken within individual projects, the Working Party decides which thematic programmes will be evaluated.