Corporate Evaluation Plan Joint informal Executive Board Meeting May 2014 New York, NY Marco Segone Director, UN Women independent Evaluation Office

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) Background

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

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 Intentionality and process

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

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 Corporate Evaluation Plan

corporate evaluations Total: 4Evaluations planned in 2014 Evaluation TypeCommitments/requi rements Major Thematic Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment (Impact Area 2) ThematicEvaluation Policy requirement to evaluate each thematic area during the cycle of SP Joint systemic review of gender equality in development Systemic review to be led by UNW, jointly with other key stakeholders Evaluation Policy commitment to UN system wide coherence on evaluation of gender equality and women empowerment External Assessment of UN Women Evaluation Policy Organizational performance, carried out by JIU Evaluation Policy requirement Peer Review of the UN Women Evaluation Function Organizational performance, carried out by UNEG Evaluation Policy requirement Meta-analysis of decentralized evaluations Meta-analysis and Meta-evaluationRequested by the Executive Board

corporate evaluations Total: 4Evaluations planned in 2015Evaluation TypeCommitments/requi rements MajorEvaluation of UN Women contribution to global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and women’s empowerment (impact area 6) Normative Support Evaluation Evaluation policy requirement to conduct at least one normative support evaluation in the cycle of SP MajorEvaluation of UN Women contribution to the United Nations system coordination (OEEF output cluster 1) Organizational performance Evaluation Policy requirement to conduct at least one organization performance evaluation during the SP cycle Meta-analysis of decentralized evaluations Meta-analysis and Meta-evaluation Requested by the Executive Board

corporate evaluations Total: 4Evaluations planned in 2016Evaluation TypeCompliance with commitments/requi rements MajorThematic Evaluation of UN Women contribution to Governance and National planning (Impact Area 5) ThematicEvaluation Policy requirement to evaluate each thematic area during the cycle of SP MajorThematic evaluation of Women’s Political Participation and Leadership (Impact Area 1) Thematic Evaluation Policy requirement to evaluate each thematic area during the cycle of SP Evaluation of UN System Wide Action Plan (UN-SWAP) on gender equality and women's empowerment System-wide evaluation led by JIU. UN Women to be part of the Evaluation management Group/reference group System-wide evaluation policy Meta-analysis of decentralized evaluationsMeta-analysis and Meta- evaluation Requested by the Executive Board

corporate evaluations Total: 3Evaluations planned in 2017 MajorEvaluation of UN Women strategic partnerships on gender equality and women’s empowerment (OEEF output cluster 1) Organizational performance Evaluation Policy requirement to conduct at least one organization performance evaluation during the SP cycle MajorEvaluation of Organizational Effectiveness at country and regional levels (OEEF output cluster 2) Organizational performance Evaluation Policy requirement to conduct at least one organization performance evaluation during the SP cycle Meta-analysis of decentralized evaluations Meta-analysis and Meta- evaluation Requested by the Executive Board An additional evaluation to be identified in 2016

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 Risk framework and implementation