Field Office Evaluations - Consolidated Report
November 2004 - The report consolidates the results of evaluations undertaken by the Internal Oversight Service between November 2003 - October 2004.
As part of the reform process in UNESCO, a new field structure was established in mid-2001 consisting of Regional Bureaux, Cluster Offices and National Offices. Some National Offices were closed and stronger multi-sectoral Cluster Offices were established supported by a few mono sectoral Regional Bureaux.
The overall objectives of decentralization were to strengthen the field presence in Member States and to improve efficiency, effectiveness and impact of UNESCO programme delivery to Member States.
The Director-General is committed to report to the Executive Board at the beginning of 2005 on the functioning of this structure and to show in particular how it is helping UNESCO to become more efficient and effective in delivering its programmes.
The Executive Board has also requested a comprehensive evaluation of the activities and results of all decentralized bodies and to see the outcome of evaluating Field Offices using criteria approved by Executive Board.
Against this backdrop, IOS have undertaken field office evaluations with the following objectives:
To assess the effective functioning of the decentralization strategy
To assess the performance of each field office that was evaluated
Download a copy of the evaluation report in portable document format (pdf).
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