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src="/web/20180629210237im_/http://www.who.int/about/evaluation/website_eb143_2.jpg" alt="" width="463" height="282"> </div> <p> <span> <font color="#000000"> The Evaluation Office contributes to establishing a culture of evaluation at all levels of the Organization, so that evaluation plays a critical role in WHO in improving performance, increasing accountability for results, and promoting organizational learning.</font> <br> <p><font color="#000000"> Strengthening evaluation and organizational learning has been identified as one of the critical components of the ongoing WHO reform process. As a first step, on 1 August 2014 the evaluation function was moved from within the Office of Internal Oversight Services (where it had been located and integrated with other functions) to become a separate Evaluation Office to support independent evaluation. A review of the evaluation function in WHO and of best practices and models in other entities has led to the development and ongoing implementation of a framework for strengthening evaluation and organizational learning in WHO, with six key action areas: <p><br></font> <p><p style="line-height: 20px; font-size: 10pt"> <font color="#000000"> ● establishing an enabling environment and governance;<br> ● evaluation capacity resources;<br> ● evaluation work plan, scope and modalities;<br> ● evaluation recommendations and management response;<br> ● organizational learning; and<br> ● communicating evaluation work. <p> </br></font></span> </p> <ul class="list"> </ul> <div class="clear"> </div> </div>    <div class="module"> <h4 class="section_head2">The UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) defines evaluation as follows:</h4> <p>“….an assessment, as systematic and impartial as possible of an activity, project, programme, strategy, policy, theme, sector, operational area or institutional performance. It focuses on expected and achieved accomplishments examining the results chain, processes, contextual factors and causality, in order to understand achievements or the lack thereof. It aims at determining the relevance, impact, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of the interventions and contributions of the organizations of the UN system.”</p> <p>In simpler terms, evaluation is intended to provide accountability for achieving results from the use of resources, and to facilitate learning from experience in ways that can be put into practical use. Furthermore, evaluation should influence policy and operational decisions.</p> </div>  <div class="module"> <h4 class="section_head2">The WHO Evaluation Office</h4> <p>The WHO Evaluation Office is headed by Dr Elil Renganathan, Director-General’s Representative for Evaluation and Organizational Learning.</p> <ul class="list"> <li> <a href="/web/20180629210237/http://www.who.int/about/evaluation/about/en/">How the Evaluation Office Works</a> </li> </ul> <p><font color="#000000">contact us: </font><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180629210237/mailto:evaluation@who.int">evaluation@who.int</a></p> </div>  <div class="module"> <h4 class="section_head2"><font color="#468499">Highlights<font></font></font></h4> <ul class="list"> <li> <a href="/web/20180629210237/http://www.who.int/about/evaluation/election/en/">Evaluation of the election of the Director-General of the World Health Organization </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="columns"> <div class="col_2-1_1">  <div 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