OIOS
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RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Peacekeeping evaluations of the
Inspection and Evaluation Division,
UN Office of Internal Oversight Services
(OIOS-IED)
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•One of three divisions in OIOS (est. 1994)
•Responsible for the evaluation function at the UNSecretariat
•Covers the work programme of the entire UN Secretariat:peace and security, sustainable development, humanrights and humanitarian work, management and supportservices
•Focuses on assessing relevance, efficiency, effectivenessand impact
About OIOS-IED
OIOS
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•Objective:
… to determine as systematically and objectively as possible therelevance, efficiency, effectiveness and impact of theOrganization’s activities in relation to their objectives;
… to enable the Secretariat and Member States to engage insystematic reflection, with a view to increasing theeffectiveness of the main programmes of the Organization…
(PPBME Regulation 7.1)
•Standards: UNEG norms and standards
OIOS-IED evaluations
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•Resources: 1 Chief, 2 Evaluation Officers
•Topics: risk assessment, request or mandate
•Focus: mandate achievement
•Criteria: relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and impact
•Work plan: annual (1 July to 30 June), 3 evaluations peryear
•Consultation: DPKO Evaluation Section
•Reports: submitted to GA and/or programme managers
The Peacekeeping Evaluation Section
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•Mission-specific evaluations
–Our major focus in recent years
–5 General Assembly reports
•UNOCI, UNMIL, UNMIS, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO
•Thematic evaluations
–An early focus, now re-emerging
–2 recent General Assembly reports
•Regional cooperation, POC reporting
–2 evaluations in progress
•Sexual exploitation and abuse, protection of civilians
•Other work
–Inspections, programme managers’ reports
Our evaluations
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•Supporting peace processes and peacebuilding
•Complex mandates and environments
•Integration of a gender perspective
Mission evaluations:
common elements (1)
“critical enabling role” (MONUSCO)
“tremendous resilience” (MINUSTAH)
“essential support” (UNMIL)
“effective contribution to implementation of ceasefire agreement” (UNMIS)
“particular attention paid” (MONUSCO)
“attention paid” (UNMIS)
“some success in mainstreaming…” (UNMIL)
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•Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration
•The longer-term objectives of security sector reform and rule of law
•Cooperation and coordination with partners
Mission evaluations:
common elements (2)
“multiple setbacks” (MINUSTAH)
“slow progress” (MONUSCO)
“overarching strategic framework lacking for coordination of SSR” (UNOCI, UNMIL)
“serious challenges” (UNMIL)
“objectives…not attained” (MINUSTAH)
“challenges faced” (UNMIL, UNOCI)
“remains a challenge” (MINUSTAH)
“needs strengthening” (UNOCI)
“lack of coordination and cooperation” (UNMIS)
“effective strategic partnership [with UNCT]” (UNMIL)
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•Integrated planning
•Protection of civilians
•Reporting
•External environment
Mission evaluations: differences
“needs to be strengthened” (UNOCI)
“facilitates coherent action [with UNCT]” (UNMIL)
“Indicators of Achievement have limitations” (MINUSTAH)
“clear, specific benchmarks” (UNMIL)
“reporting on human rights abuses could be improved” (UNMIS)
“[no] guidance for performance reporting [on POC]” (thematic)
“effective for the most part” (UNMIL)
“challenges have affected credibility and legitimacy” (MINUSTAH)
“apparent inconsistencies in the number of deaths reported” (thematic)
“crucial prerequisite— genuine partnership between the UN and the Government, includingmutual accountability for activities and achievements — is not yet present” (MONUSCO)
“consolidation, drawdown and withdrawal benchmarks have continued to build on localownership… on the basis of the Government’s four-pillar strategy” (UNMIL)
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•Recommendations address identified challenges
•Moving away from prescriptive activity-basedrecommendations towards more outcome-orientedrecommendations
•SMART recommendations (trackable)
•Classification (critical, important, opportunities forimprovement)
•Less is more
Recommendations
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•Recommendations
–implementation is required; action plans are prepared byevaluands for approval by OIOS-IED
–implementation is tracked for 3 years
•Annual report
–OIOS submits to GA a report on the implementation ofrecommendations resulting from all its reports, includingpeacekeeping evaluations
Evaluation Follow Up
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•Challenges
–data availability and reliability (especially further down the resultschain)
–role of political factors in peacekeeping policy and practice
•Strengths
–cumulative lesson-learning from multiple peace operations
–initiatives to improve efficiency of common tasks in peacekeeping
Challenges and Strengths
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•Our distinguishing features
–internal, independent, strong mandate, access to information
–visible output (only evaluation unit within the Secretariat reportingto governing bodies, public reports)
–binding recommendations
–familiar with environment in which decisions are made
•Our changing focus
–external review (2012) recommended increased focus on results,rather than outputs and processes
–this drives our approaches (risk assessment, scoping, reporting)
–consistent with governing bodies’ request for greater focus onresults
–also consistent with RBM and organizational definition ofaccountability
Impact of our evaluations
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Contact:
Rahul Sur, Chief, Peacekeeping Evaluation
sur@un.org
Jan Muir, Project Leader
muirj@un.org
Emily Hampton-Manley, Project Leader
hampton-manley@un.org
Questions?