 Review of UNESCO Liaison Offices
The Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of UNESCO called for the role of the New York Office to be enhanced. Subsequently, the Ad-hoc working group of the Executive Board to the follow-up on the IEE requested clarification of the role of liaison offices. In response, a review was undertaken by IOS to determine how best to enhance UNESCO’s liaison offices (Addis Ababa, Brussels, Geneva and New York). More |
 Evaluation of Learning and Development at UNESCO
February 2010- The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the relevance of UNESCO’s learning and development policy in meeting the current and future needs of the Organization and evaluate the effectiveness and key results of its associated activities. More |
 Evaluation of Publication Capacity
January 2009 - UNESCO issued a new Publication and Distribution Policy in June 2008. The development of the new policy was built upon the recommendations made by the External Auditor’s report on UNESCO’s publication activities in 2007, as well as conclusions of an IOS 2005 report, the ongoing review by the Committee on Communication and Public Information (CCIP), and the work by the Working Group on Publications Policy and Guidelines. More |
 Evaluation of 8 Pilot Locations of the Delivering as One UN initiative
January 2009 - The 2005 World Summit in New York gave new impetus to UN reform. At the initiative of the Secretary-General, a High-level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence worked for over six months to consider how the UN system could most effectively respond to the global development, environmental and humanitarian challenges of the 21st century. More |
 Evaluation of UNESCO's Recruitment Policy and Practice
January 2009 - Recruitment within UNESCO is guided by UNESCO’s 2003 Integrated Policy on Recruitment, Rotation and Promotion which articulates a decentralization policy that devolves responsibility for implementation by the sector management. It ensures a competent and efficient workforce, selected, appointed and promoted based on competence and merit, and through a competitive process. More |
 Risk-Based Evaluation of UNESCO’s Capacity to Deliver
January 2009 - The Medium Term Strategy (MTS) for the period 2008 – 2013 (34 C/4) contains a set of five overarching objectives. These are expanded into 14 Strategic Programme Objectives (SPOs), thus covering all the programmes envisaged for the medium term period, and a set of Expected Outcomes (EOs). More |
 Evaluation of the UNESCO Participation Programme
September 2008 - The UNESCO Participation Programme provides direct assistance to initiatives undertaken by Member States in UNESCO’s field of competence, with the aim to promote activities of a national, sub-regional, regional and interregional nature that fall within the framework of actions in UNESCO’s major sector programmes and multidisciplinary activities, and to strengthen UNESCO’s partnership with National Commissions and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). More |
 Evaluation of the UNESCO Coupons Programme
September 2008 – The UNESCO Coupons Programme was created to enable the educational institutions of those Member States which had suffered the disasters of the Second World War to obtain from other Member States the books, publications and educational materials that they needed, but which they themselves could not yet produce, nor buy from abroad due to the shortage of convertible currencies. More |
 Greening UNESCO: Establishing an Environmental Management System
December 2007 - At all levels in organisations such as UNESCO, more and more people are seeking to go about their activities in an environmentally sustainable way. With Climate Change high on the global agenda, UNESCO has an important leadership role to play in the global debates and actions. More |
Evaluation of UNESCO’s Results-Based Management Training Programme
March 2007 - This evaluation assesses the RBM training programme developed and implemented by the Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP) from June 2003 to November 2005. The objectives of the evaluation were to assess the RBM training programme with regards to (i) its policy and management structure; (ii) its quality and effectiveness; and (iii) its impact in the Organization. More |
A Review of UNESCO’s Capacity-Building Function
February 2007 - The purpose of this review is to inform senior management of good practices to be considered in designing capacity-building initiatives and to enable sectors to improve their capacity-building interventions. More |
Evaluation of the Cross Cutting Themes (CCT): Poverty and ICTs
August 2006 - This evaluation was to provide UNESCO with a clear account of the Poverty and Information and Communication Technologies Cross Cutting Themes (CCTs), and information to assist UNESCO in understanding what has worked and what has not worked, so as to guide future planning. More |
Evaluation of UNESCO Anticipation and Foresight Programme
July 2006 - In the area of anticipation and foresight, UNESCO’s aim is to strengthen the Organization’s intellectual, ethical and strategic watch function – foresight activities are an integral part of UNESCO’s function as a “laboratory of ideas”. More |
Evaluation of UNESCO’s Language Policies and Practices
September 2005 - The evaluation was commissioned to assess the official policies pertaining to languages and the actual management of the policies, identify pertinent issues to be addressed, and make proposals for updating the policies and practices of language training, testing and funding. More |
An evaluation of UNESCO's response to HIV-AIDS
April 2004 - UNESCO commissioned an external evaluation of its response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the period 1987 to the end of 2003. The purpose of the evaluation was to analyse results, assess performance, and develop recommendations for future activities. More |
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