2014-2017 Corporate Evaluation Plan

1. 2014-2017 Corporate Evaluation Plan Joint informal Executive Board MeetingMay 2014 New York, NY Marco Segone Director, UN Women independent Evaluation Office

2. Background The Evaluation Policy: • Provides the definition of corporate evaluation, evaluation types, targets and the selection criteria • Requests the corporate evaluation plan to be approved by the Executive Director • Requests the Executive Board to be informed on the Corporate Evaluation Plan (CEP)

3. Purpose and scope • Purpose: Provide a coherent framework to assess the UN Women Strategic Plan 2014-2017 (SP) • Scope: 2014-2017 • Six impact areas of SP • Organizational effectiveness and efficiency output clusters of SP

4. Intentionality and process • Intentionality: decisions, learning and accountability • Midterm-review of Strategic Plan • Post-2015 development framework • Beijing +20 discussions • Process : Evaluation Office, other UN entities, Senior Management, Global Evaluation Committee, and approved by the USG/Executive Director • Flexible and responsive • Update of the Plan in 2016

5. Selection approach • Overall principles: • Alignment with the principles of Evaluation Policy • Focus on gender equality and empowerment of women • UN coherence and joint evaluation

6. Corporate Evaluation Plan • 16 corporate evaluations in 4 years : 7 major evaluations, 5 evaluations that are narrower in scope and 4 meta-analysis of decentralized evaluations • Funding requirement: USD 3,350,000 over 4 years

7. 2014-2015 corporate evaluations

8. 2014-2015 corporate evaluations

9. 2016-2017 corporate evaluations

10. 2016-2017 corporate evaluations

11. Risk framework and implementation • Risk framework • Mobilization of funding • Changes in UN Women Strategic Plan • Implementation and Reporting • Annual work plan for consideration of Global Evaluation Committee and approval of ED