Evaluation of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022–2025 - Summary (First regular session 2025)

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UNICEF is embarking on the final year of its current Strategic Plan cycle (2022–2025) and in 2024 began developing its next Strategic Plan (2026–2029). With only six years left to fulfil the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UNICEF is navigating significant global challenges such as resource constraints, climate change, widening gender inequalities and rising humanitarian crises ‒ all of which threaten children’s rights and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

The evaluation of the UNICEF Strategic Plan (2022–2025) represented an accountability and learning commitment made in the UNICEF plan for global evaluations, 2022–2025. It took place against this backdrop of the numerous and significant challenges facing the organization, and aimed to provide a robust assessment of the current Plan and thereby offer insights and actionable recommendations to inform the design of the upcoming Plan. It assessed the Strategic Plan’s fitness for purpose, progress to date and, through forecast modelling, likely achievements by the end of the current Strategic Plan period in 2025.

United Nations Children’s Fund
Executive Board
First regular session 2025
4–7 February 2025