About the Evaluation Office

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 Office's work is organized around three complementary evaluation portfolios:

• Development effectiveness & 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.

These portfolios are supported by the Director's Office, which provides strategic leadership and ensures coherence across the Evaluation Office and the function more widely. 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.

Working closely with regional and country offices, UNICEF leadership, governments, United Nations partners, and the wider evaluation community, the Evaluation Office fosters accountability, organizational learning, and evidence-informed decision-making across UNICEF and beyond.