Independent corporate evaluations
For every child, results.
Independent Corporate Evaluations
Independence forms the bedrock of good evaluation practice as it is fundamental to the credibility and utility of an evaluation. The Evaluation Office commissions Independent Corporate Evaluations based on the office’s Plan for Global Evaluations, 2022-2025 which is informed by the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022–2025 (E/ICEF/2021/25) and developed in consultation with the Global Evaluation Committee, and divisions and offices, at the global, regional and country levels.
Independent Corporate Evaluations generate and synthesize evaluation evidence relevant to priority topics to promote and protect children’s rights, focusing on the five Goal Areas of the UNICEF Strategic Plan. These are:
The Evaluation Office also conducts Institutional Effectiveness evaluations to assess organization-wide functions and elements that support UNICEF’s ability to achieve its intended results for children. These evaluations concentrate on broader institutional aspects of how UNICEF operates and how goal areas and other cross-cutting programmes are implemented. The Institutional Effectiveness Portfolio focus on the change strategies and enablers that support the realization of the Strategic Plan and which are critical to positioning UNICEF and its partners to succeed.
The exercises planned under the Institutional Effectiveness Portfolio in the Plan for Global Evaluations cover the following areas of work: the Strategic Plan, the Gender Action Plan, UNICEF’s approach to risk-informed programming, innovation, advocacy and communication, and human resources management, among others. The Institutional Effectiveness Portfolio uses adaptive and innovative methodologies and approaches to inform change management processes.
Some of the evaluations that have been recently done by goal areas
Some of the evaluations that have been done recently are presented below by goal areas, change strategies, enablers and other evaluations of institutional effectiveness. You can access more evaluations here.
Goal Area 1: Every child survives and thrives
Goal Area 2: Every child learns
- Joint Independent Common Country Programme Evaluation: The Republic of Cabo Verde
- What works to amplify the rights and voices of youth?
- Formative evaluation of UNICEF engagement of young people in peacebuilding
- Early Childhood Development Kit Humanitarian Evaluation
- Impact Evaluation of Play-Based Early Learning and Development Through UNICEF’s Early Childhood Development Kit
- Formative Evaluation of the Out-of-School-Children Initiative (OOSCI)
- Evaluation of UNICEF Girls’ Education Portfolio (2009-2015)
- Evaluation of Early Learning and Development Standards (ELDS) and school-readiness
- UNICEF Upstream Work in Basic Education and Gender Equality 2003-2012 (synthesis report)
- Global Evaluation of Life Skills Education Programmes
Goal Area 3: Every child is protected from violence and exploitation
- What works to amplify the rights and voices of youth?
- Joint evaluation of the UNFPA-UNICEF joint programme on the abandonment of FGM, Phase III: 2018-2021
- Joint Assessment of Adaptations to the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage in light of COVID-19
- Evaluation of UNICEF work in strengthening civil registration and vital statistics systems
- Assessment of Adaptations to the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage in light of COVID-19
- Programme Evaluation: Protecting Children On The Move in the Horn of Africa
- Joint Evaluation of UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage
- Joint Evaluation of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation: Accelerating Change
- Independent Panel Review of the UNICEF Response to PSEA
- Strengthening Child Protection Systems: Evaluation of UNICEF Strategies and Programme Performance
- Protecting Children from Violence (VAC): A Comprehensive Evaluation of UNICEF’s Strategies and Programme Performance
- Evaluation of UNICEF Programmes to Protect Children in Emergencies (CPiE)
- Joint Evaluation of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): Accelerating Change
Goal Area 4: Every child lives in a safe and clean environment
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Evaluation Synthesis of UN System and Development Bank Work Towards SDG 6
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Global evaluation of UNICEF WASH humanitarian action in protracted crises, 2014-2019
