Evaluation of initial proposals

Proposals on the strengthening and monitoring of programme performance and evaluation (A 60 73)

More time was needed to complete the evaluation and formulate the proposals.

Those and other proposals, however, still require further critical evaluation, discussion and development.

Office of Internal Oversight Services on proposals on the strengthening and monitoring of programme performance and evaluation

Only six proposals were received and the mission provided only three weeks for technical evaluation of these bids.

Office of Internal Oversight Services on proposals on the strengthening and monitoring of programme performance and evaluation (A 60 73)

In particular, it welcomes the inclusion of specific monitoring and evaluation procedures for new policy proposals submitted to Cabinet.

In Brazil, the evaluation of initial proposals is used solely for the purpose of determining the starting price of the auction.

In particular, it welcomes the inclusion of specific monitoring and evaluation procedures for new policy proposals submitted to the Cabinet.

These include proposals for a comprehensive review of governance arrangements, including an independent external evaluation of the auditing and oversight system, and proposals for an independent audit advisory committee, as summarized below.

Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on proposals on the strengthening and monitoring of programme performance and evaluation (A 60 73)

The report should contain areas of interest, criteria for evaluation of the synergetic content of land degradation and desertification projects and proposals for improving the institutional interlinkages.

Another aspect to be covered in the instructions issued by the host Government concerns the criteria to be applied for the evaluation of tenders or proposals.

The Team Leader, Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming in UNDP, thanked delegations for their comments and emphasized the importance of focusing on practical, feasible proposals to improve gender mainstreaming.

One delegation, speaking on behalf of a large group, observed that the evaluation contained many useful proposals and that it should be implemented at an early date.

My proposals for the conduct of an independent external evaluation of the auditing, oversight and roles and responsibilities of management of the United Nations and the specialized agencies (ibid., para.

A request for proposals is being developed, and the formal evaluation is expected to begin in the fall of 2005 and to be completed by the summer of 2006.

16. Invites the Committee for Programme and Coordination to submit at its forty fourth session proposals on enhancing its role in monitoring and evaluation

The Unit, therefore, concurs with the proposals. Accordingly, it welcomes steps already taken by OIOS to reinforce its role in providing central support and guidance to managers throughout the Secretariat with the issuance of the glossary of common monitoring and evaluation terms and the preparation of the evaluation manual.

In order to allow for an evaluation of the proposals of the Secretary General, quantified information should have been supplied that could have been correlated to the narrative portions of the report.

In addition, no consultant who has been engaged to prepare or review technical specifications or otherwise to assist in the evaluation of bids or proposals should be allowed to recommend any suppliers for the proposed procurement or itself to tender any bids or proposals.

6. The 1996 Office of Evaluation and Strategic Planning (OESP) evaluation, entitled Global, Interregional and Regional Programmes An Evaluation of Impact, included the evaluation of four RBEC regional projects, namely

Based on the findings of a Secretariat wide working group, the report contains proposals for specific actions that need to be taken in order to strengthen monitoring and evaluation.15

Result of evaluation

Evaluation of programmes

The draft outcome document has set out a comprehensive set of proposals, and in that regard the proposals for an independent oversight advisory committee to assist the General Assembly and for an evaluation of the United Nations entire internal control and oversight system acquire special urgency under current circumstances.

The requirement for evaluation of initial proposals is found both in the systems that recognize ERAs as an optional phase and in the systems that recognize ERAs as a distinct method.

Conduct project evaluation and thematic evaluation

211. The view was expressed that the issue of an effective evaluation system was of special importance in the context of ongoing reform and, in particular, the Secretary General s proposals on results based budgeting.

Prior to the adoption of the resolution, the Steering Committee on Reform and Management asked OIOS to take the lead in developing specific proposals for strengthening the Organization's system of monitoring and evaluation.

17. Requests the Secretary General to submit proposals to the General Assembly at its sixty second session to improve the links between monitoring, evaluation, programme planning and budgeting

Objectives of the evaluation

A culture of evaluation

J. Evaluation of programmes

Evaluation of nourishment level

Performance evaluation of suppliers

Evaluation of consultants work

The work programme on the GEF system of monitoring and evaluation, established by the GEF Council, includes independent evaluation, operational, scientific and technical monitoring and evaluation, and evaluation of strategic and cross programme issues.

Evaluation of performance of consultants

We point out that the evaluation criteria for the investment proposals submitted for implementation to the Development Partnerships of Local Action Groups implementing the Programme, provide for additional credits for women candidate investors.

Expansion of evaluation activities will be encouraged, particularly strategic, thematic and independent evaluation of selected programmes.

2. By its decision 10 10, taken at its tenth session, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for Desertification (INCD) invited the Secretariat to solicit proposals to undertake such a survey and evaluation and to arrange for circulation of executive summaries of these proposals in advance of the first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 1).

It therefore made specific proposals to strengthen the role and responsibility of the intergovernmental bodies for reviewing and applying the findings of the programme performance report of the Secretary General and evaluation reports for planning and policymaking.

Proposals and amendments to proposals