2. International Association for Impact Assessment . 7

IAIA apos s goals are

8. Evaluation of the Meeting.

15.13 The monitoring and evaluation functions of UN Habitat are managed and coordinated by the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit.

IAIA worked closely to advance another CSTD initiative which resulted in the formation in 1995 of the International Association of Technology Assessment and Forecasting Institutions.

G. Assessment of international initiatives 68 71 15

20. An evaluation officer was recruited in 1996 to coordinate all evaluation activities of the Centre.

Although demographic impact assessment is a topic of considerable relevance, the attempt to secure IAIA participation at the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development was unsuccessful.

All regional programmes will be evaluated upon their completion the issues to be addressed through the evaluations as well as their timing will be determined by PMOC, in consultation with regional bureaux and the Evaluation Office. IV. EXECUTIVE BOARD ACTION

13. Follow up of evaluation recommendations Evaluation follow up has been greatly facilitated by the completion of the IES database mentioned above.

The Committee for Programme and Coordination endorsed the recommendations and recommended to the General Assembly that OIOS continue to conduct thematic evaluations.

The Office will also conduct and support evaluations concerning results, value for money and management accountability of tsunami recovery programmes support country programme evaluations conduct and support real time evaluations that take place during the response to humanitarian crises, as opposed to waiting until the crisis has passed support donor led evaluations and joint evaluations of UNICEF related activities and strengthen evaluation networks and associations.

Training in methods of evaluation and self evaluation should be arranged by the Office of Policy and Programme Coordination (paragraph 50) (SP 04 002 012).

In paragraph 709, the Board recommends that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs systematically assess the performance of members of United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination teams and use that assessment as a basis for sending response teams to a disaster zone.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

At the end of subparagraph 16.45 (b) (iii), add development and publication of rule of law assessment tools and checklists to assist in the conducting of assessment missions by United Nations staff development and dissemination of assessment tools and checklists for the conducting of assessments in the area of court reform management development and dissemination of assessment tools and checklists for the conducting of assessments in the area of penal reform

220. The Committee recommended that the General Assembly approve the addition of the following two programmes to the schedule of in depth evaluations policy coordination and sustainable development and population reports on those evaluations were to be submitted to the Committee at its forty first session.

220. The Committee recommended that the General Assembly approve the addition of the following two programmes to the schedule of in depth evaluations reports on those evaluations were to be submitted to the Committee at its forty first session policy coordination and sustainable development and population.

Monitoring, review and appraisal, coordination and dissemination of population information

Two UNDAC teams were deployed to strengthen the field coordination capacity.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

The evaluation recommended that UNDCP should examine the possibility of replicating the coordination mechanism in other regions.

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

One of the purposes of coordinated evaluations would be simplification of the evaluation of national development programmes, harmonization of approaches both within and beyond the United Nations system, and enhanced national ownership of both the process and the results of such evaluations.

The results of the meeting are being evaluated and will be presented to the Meeting of COBSEA to be held in November 1998.

In this context, the Evaluation Office has been requested to report on the findings and recommendations to the Executive Board.

They urged UNDP to step up HDI monitoring, evaluation and coordination efforts.

Conduct project evaluation and thematic evaluation

IAIA representatives contributed to the preparation for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and participated in the conference.

Recommendation 13 Capacity of the Evaluation and Monitoring Unit

(a) The delays in the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the establishment of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission

(b) To continue to move forward with the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, including the establishment of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission

Evaluates administrative arrangements for the secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals and its co located agreement secretariats.

The evaluation recommended the establishment of a focal point within UNDCP to coordinate technical assistance in the field of drug control.

We are surprised to learn that there is a proposed independent external evaluation of the OIOS, separate from that requested in paragraph 164 (b) of resolution 60 1.

Evaluation of technical cooperation activities In depth evaluation of the training courses on key issues on the international economic agenda

The two main features of the in depth evaluation exercise in UNCTAD were the independence of the external evaluation team, which had complete freedom on the substantive content of the evaluation and its recommendations, and the participatory approach, whereby in addition to a professional evaluator, two evaluators, one from a beneficiary and one from a donor country, participated in their personal capacity.

He expressed appreciation to the evaluation team and the secretariat for the evaluation report, and underscored that evaluation was an important tool to help UNCTAD to do its work properly and effectively.

24. ACC members, recognizing that evaluation is an issue of central concern, generally support the thrust of recommendation 5 (a) on the proviso that due attention is paid to the financial cost of evaluation exercises.

The social evaluative judgments increase, the fear of those social evaluative judgments.

Based on the findings of the evaluation, the recommendations set out below are presented for consideration.

Government auditors can use them to help evaluate those structures.

(b) United Nations information, monitoring and evaluation (coordinated by UNICEF)

The staff unions and associations had long been advocates of assessing both the short and long term needs of the Organization and sharing that assessment with the international civil service.