Assessment of Development Results: Afghanistan

This evaluation examined UNDP's contributions to national development goals, its relevance and strategic position within the country during the period between 2009 and 2013 in Afghanistan. It provides a set of forward-looking recommendations, with a view to supporting the country office and its partners in the continuous efforts to improve the country programme by learning from the achievements and challenges.

Proceedings from the Third International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities

Lessons and outcomes are summarized in the conference proceedings, which will further contribute to knowledge sharing and South-South cooperation among countries that are strengthening their evaluation-related efforts. This report provides a conceptual framework for the conference theme in order to introduce and support the discussions and experiences shared by papers submitted by participant countries. To increase relevancy for policy makers, this report presents a set of select papers by conference participants and provides country examples that support its analysis.

Assessment of Development Results: Kenya

This evaluation examined UNDP's contributions to national development goals, its relevance and strategic position within the country during the period between 2007 and 2013 (later extended to 2014) in Kenya. It provides a set of forward-looking recommendations, with a view to supporting the country office and its partners in the continuous efforts to improve the country programme by learning from the achievements and challenges.

Evaluating Environment in International Development

Climate change has emerged as a preeminent challenge to both the environment and to development. Evaluating Environment in International Development is a book that provides international perspectives and in-depth knowledge of evaluating development and the environment and applies evaluation knowledge to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The book focuses on the approaches and experiences of leading international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies to illustrate how systematic evaluation is an essential tool for providing evidence for decision-makers. Click here to order your copy!

Evaluation of UNDP Strategic Plan 2008-2013

This evaluation provides an assessment of UNDP performance during the period covered by the Strategic Plan and an organizational assessment of UNDP's use of the Plan. It analyses lessons learned from the body of evaluations undertaken by the Evaluation Office in the last few years and draws on the insights of a variety of stakeholders.

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