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Promoting Country-led Development Evaluation. Finbar O’Brien UNICEF Evaluation Office June 2009. The Policy Context. Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action Resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations
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Promoting Country-led Development Evaluation Finbar O’Brien UNICEF Evaluation Office June 2009
The Policy Context • Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action • Resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations • Both bilateral and multilateral agencies have a strong policy basis for moving towards country-led evaluation
Capacity Development • A multilayered approach is desirable • Supporting an environment of domestic accountability • Working on institutional and governance issues • Addressing both the demand and supply side • Coordination globally and within national contexts
Influencing our organizations • We need to influence other parts of our organizations : • Our governing bodies • Divisions that deal with governance and broader institutional and capacity development issues • Our country offices.
Other barriers • There are barriers on the side of the bilateral and multilateral agencies • Very centralized, headquarter driven, evaluation planning and management often leave little space for country leadership • We need to create decentralized forms of planning that allow our agencies to respond to country leadership
Barriers related to prioritization • Accountability to own governing bodies is often prioritized and narrowly interpreted • Learning within agencies is often prioritized over broader learning within partnerships. • We need to recognize the legitimacy of different accountability requirements • More evaluations should address country accountability and learning needs
Evaluation Functions • We need to plan and manage evaluations differently. • In evaluation management we have to rethink the governance arrangements for evaluations • We have to carry out evaluations in a way that builds capacity
Some positive developments • An increasing number of joint evaluations with degrees of country involvement and leadership • South Africa country-led evaluation of the UN system in South Africa – supported by the United Nations Evaluation Group • www.uneval.org