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.

With the development of the OMS, evaluation is expected to increasingly centre around decentralized self evaluation, complemented by targetted evaluations by Headquarters.

Ensuring thorough follow up on evaluations will be one of IES apos priorities during the coming year.

The data sets were currently being statistically assessed.

The Evaluation Office will focus on enhancing evaluation standards and developing an organizational policy aligned with norms and standards recently approved by the United Nations Evaluation Group.

During the past year, emphasis has also been placed on evaluations in partnership with other agencies.

49. Evaluating officers should be required to give greater attention to the completion of assessment forms and, as a minimum, the consultants strengths and weaknesses should be identified.

His Group agreed with the general thrust of the evaluation report.

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

The main thrust for the biennium will be that of expanding the culture of evaluation throughout UNODC, both through training as well as more direct involvement of the Unit in individual project level evaluations.

The pilot will be evaluated in October 2005. It is expected that the programme will be subsequently extended to other locations.

Future improvements would require careful evaluation feedback and proper follow up to the recommendations made by the Evaluation Group so as to rectify the shortcomings identified.

Conduct project evaluation and thematic evaluation

Weaknesses observed were mainly in the areas of programme monitoring and evaluation.

It highlighted several developments in United Nations evaluation practices the old system of self evaluation at the subprogramme level had been largely superseded by a broader and more useful approach that included thematic and project evaluations and other types of assessments as well as greater intergovernmental participation in the evaluation process.

There are no common criteria for the resident coordinator system to adopt for evaluations of their projects and programmes.

A further emphasis will be on working closely with field offices, especially in the evaluation of country programmes and field led evaluations.

The effectiveness of harmonization from the point of view of its financial consequences needed to be assessed separately.

Countrywide Status of PISCES Sites

The report highlights several developments in United Nations evaluation practices.

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

OIOS will specifically focus on the following (a) strengthening the rigour, coverage and utility of its evaluations (b) its role in supporting monitoring and evaluation in the Secretariat and (c) its role in promoting evaluation policy and practice in the United Nations system through active participation in the United Nations Evaluation Group.

The focus over the next biennium would be the improvement of the quality of evaluations commissioned by country offices, and of evaluation support services provided by regional offices.

Along with the expansion of inspection missions and the continuation of evaluations, a new investigation function was created, with IES designated as its central focal point.

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Evaluation

Opinion

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Market evaluations and assessments

They also noted that many of the existing institutions lack capacity and resources to conduct integrated assessments to evaluate costs and priorities of adaptation measures and strategies.

Evaluation methods shall be adapted to the nature of the programme being evaluated.

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(c) Evaluation.

(c) Evaluation

C. Evaluation

Evaluation

IV. EVALUATION 121 131 21

2. Evaluation

II. EVALUATION 21 25 5

IV. EVALUATION 118 121 21

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(c) Evaluation.

(e) Evaluation.

(b) Evaluation.