About the Evaluation Office
Leading independent evaluation at UNICEF
The UNICEF Evaluation Office leads the organization's independent evaluation function, helping ensure that credible evidence informs decisions that improve results for children.
Guided by the UNICEF Evaluation Policy, the Evaluation Office provides strategic leadership for evaluation across UNICEF. It commissions and conducts independent global evaluations, develops evaluation policies, standards and guidance, advances innovative evaluation methods, promotes the use of evidence, and strengthens national evaluation capacity.
The Director of Evaluation leads the Evaluation Office and provides strategic stewardship for UNICEF’s independent evaluation function. Reporting directly to the UNICEF Executive Board on evaluation matters, the Director safeguards the independence, quality and credibility of evaluation.
The Office's work is organized around three complementary evaluation portfolios:
- Development effectiveness and impact – evaluating UNICEF's strategies, programmes, and interventions to understand what works, for whom, and under what circumstances, and to improve outcomes for children.
- Humanitarian effectiveness – assessing UNICEF's preparedness, response, and recovery efforts to strengthen humanitarian action and results for children affected by crises.
- Institutional effectiveness – evaluating UNICEF's organizational performance, governance, systems, policies, and ways of working to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and organizational learning.
The three portfolios work alongside the Director's Office, which supports strategic leadership and coherence across the Evaluation Office and the wider evaluation function. It leads strategic planning and operational coordination while advancing evaluation capacity development, communications, partnerships, and innovation to strengthen the quality, influence, and use of evaluation across UNICEF.
Together, the Director's Office and the three evaluation portfolios work closely with regional and country offices, UNICEF leadership, governments, United Nations partners, and the wider evaluation community to foster accountability, organizational learning, and evidence-informed decision-making across UNICEF and beyond.
