Institutional effectiveness evaluations
Enhancing UNICEF’s organizational performance, efficiency, and impact for children.
Improving performance
UNICEF conducts institutional effectiveness evaluations to thoroughly assess the organization's performance, efficiency, and impact in achieving its intended outcomes for children. Institutional effectiveness evaluations focus on organization-wide functions and elements that are critical for achieving UNICEF's mission. These evaluations examine various aspects of UNICEF’s operations, policies, programmes, and resources or focus on change strategies and enablers that are critical to achieving the goals of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan and positioning the organization and its partners for success.
Using adaptive and innovative methodologies, institutional effectiveness evaluations identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges. They inform decision-making, planning and change management processes to improve organizational performance and accountability and ensure continuous learning, improvement and adaptation in the organization.
Planned evaluations in 2024 seek to assess the implementation of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, the UNICEF Gender Policy and the integration of gender into programming, innovation, internal communication and staff engagement, and human resources management.
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Explore our comprehensive range of publications, tailored to address various organizational needs and drive continuous improvement.
- Are We Getting There? A synthesis of UN system evaluations of SDG 5
- Evaluation of UNICEF’s Reasonable Accommodation Fund
- Joint Evaluation of the Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Collective Service
- Evaluation of UNICEF’s investment towards institutional strengthening for social and behaviour change
- Baseline Assessment of UNICEF's Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) Implementation
- Evaluation of UNICEF’s Approaches to Advocacy
- Evaluability Assessment and Formative Evaluation of UNICEF’s Positioning to Achieve the Goals of the Strategic Plan (2022-2025)
- Evaluation of UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018-2021
- Readiness Assessment: Climate and Environment
- Readiness Assessment: Business for Results
- Evaluation of the UNICEF Gender Action Plan
- UNICEF Review of Development Effectiveness, 2012-2015
- UNICEF's Development Effectiveness Review, 2016-2019
- Evaluability Assessment of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2014 - 2017
- UNICEF Strategic Review of Human Resources Management
- Evaluation of Innovation in UNICEF Work - Synthesis report
- Independent Panel Review of the UNICEF Response to PSEA
Evaluation of UNICEF's positioning for the Strategic Plan
Evaluation of UNICEF's positioning for the Strategic Plan
