1. Sub Group of Peer Reviews
Oscar Garcia (IFAD) and Inga Sniukaite (UN Women) Convener and Deputy-Convener

2. Outline Completed and ongoing 2015 - 2016 peer reviews
Planned peer reviews for
Piloting of peer review guidance
Monitoring of MR (Lessons Learned Study, 2013)
What is the impact of peer reviews?
Draft work programme 2016

3. Completed and ongoing 2015 – 2016 peer reviews
Agency
Panel
Status
UNRWA
UNESCO (chair), UNCDF, Norway
Completed, report and management response;
ITC
IFAD (chair), WFP,
Finland
Ongoing, the draft report shared with ITC for feedback, the expected date for the final report is the end of June;
UNDOC
UNEP (chair), UNWOMEN,
Denmark
Ongoing, the draft report shared with UNODC for feedback, the expected date for the final report is the end of April.

4. Planned peer reviews for 2016-2017 (TBC at AGM)
Agency
Panel
Status
International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)
? (chair), ?, Evalnet tbc
Expressed interest to have the peer reviews in the second half of 2016
World Health Organization (WHO)
? (chair),?, Evalnet tbc
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
United Nations Children Fund  (UNICEF)

5. Piloting of Peer Review Guidance
Feedback from EvalNet and ongoing peer reviews: 1) methodology of peer reviews; 2) peer exchange dimension and learning; and 3) overall peer review format and parameters for small evaluation functions.

6. Monitoring of Management Response (Lessons Learned Study, Davies and Brummer, 2013)
Professionalization of Evaluation Concept Paper
Update of UNEG norms and standards (Standard 5.1 Quality assurance system)
Piloting of Peer Review Guidance

7. Finalization of peer review guidance
Needs to take into account:
UNEG professionalization strategy
Updated norms and standards
Lessons from on going peer reviews
Guidance to be finalized in 2017

8. What is the impact of peer reviews?
Lessons learned study addressed the impact question through survey
Conduct a review of the implementation of management responses for all completed peer reviews
Monitor the implementation of management responses for peer reviews

9. Feedback from AGM on Work plan 2016
Finalize UNODC and ITC peer reviews
Initiate confirmed 4 peer reviews
Finalize peer review guidance
Conduct a review of implementation of management responses

10. Thank you!