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field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span style="font-size:16px;">IED assesses how well the United Nations is performing through both programmatic and thematic lenses. Mandated to cover all entities under the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/ga/fifth/70/Prop_strat_framework_2018-2019.html"><span>UN Strategic Framework</span></a>, our division evaluates a diverse range of Secretariat programmes, departments, offices, peacekeeping operations, special political missions, as well as some non-Secretariat funds and programmes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px;">Our evaluations focus on assessing the results of UN work in terms of the evaluation criteria of relevance, efficiency and effectiveness, including impact. The quality of our work is assured through our quality assurance checklists applied to our evaluation phases and products. We follow a transparent and rigorous methodological process outlined in our division’s <a href="/sites/oios.un.org/files/images/oios-ied_manual.pdf">evaluation manual</a>, in line with evaluation norms and standards of the UN system (established by the <a href="http://www.uneval.org/">UN Evaluation Group</a>).</span></p> </div></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-separator"></div><div class="panel-pane pane-fieldable-panels-pane pane-vuuid-fe901ff4-e9d4-47e7-8c60-617195099a71 pane-bundle-text" > <h2 class="pane-title"> Products </h2> <div class="pane-content"> <div class="fieldable-panels-pane"> <div class="field field-name-field-basic-text-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span style="font-size:16px;">In carrying out our inspection and evaluation <a href="/content/who-we-are#mandate">mandate</a>, our division delivers several types of evaluative products, including: </span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Programme evaluations</strong> that assess a single UN entity, programme, sub-programme, peacekeeping operation or special political mission</span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Thematic evaluations</strong> that assess a cross-cutting theme across UN entities or programmes (e.g. cumulative effects of multiple programmes sharing common objectives)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Inspections</strong> that are targeted reviews of an organizational unit, issue or practice perceived to be of potential risk</span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Biennial studies on evaluation</strong> that seek to strengthen self-evaluation capacity of subject entities by analysing overall trends, which are accompanied by Evaluation Dashboards for each entity in its scope</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Triennial reviews</strong> that are follow-up exercises assessing the implementation of recommendations made in General Assembly mandated evaluations</span></span></span></li> </ul> </div></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-separator"></div><div class="panel-pane pane-fieldable-panels-pane pane-vuuid-51fcc9a4-ca8e-484f-bd02-32dd78a343f6 pane-bundle-text" > <h2 class="pane-title"> Users </h2> <div class="pane-content"> <div class="fieldable-panels-pane"> <div class="field field-name-field-basic-text-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span style="font-size:16px;">The primary audience and users of IED evaluative products are: </span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:16px;">The Secretary-General, UN programme managers and staff</span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16px;">Member States, primarily the Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) and the Administrative 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