Evaluation of UNCTAD activities: Overview

The Working Party on the Programme Plan and Programme Performance

1. Reaffirms the importance of evaluation as a management tool to enhance accountability, organizational learning and evidence-based decision-making, in accordance with the UNCTAD evaluation policy and the norms and standards for evaluation of the United Nations Evaluation Group;

Evaluation of UNCTAD activities: Overview

2. Welcomes the content of “Evaluation of UNCTAD activities: Overview” (TD/B/WP/337), as well as of the secretariat’s update to member States on the implementation of relevant recommendations identified in past evaluations;
3. Requests continued action, in line with the guidelines and practices of the United Nations Secretariat, to ensure the relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness (including impact) and sustainability of UNCTAD interventions, facilitate the mainstreaming of United Nations cross-cutting issues and deliver on other evaluation recommendations;

External evaluation of UNCTAD subprogramme 4: Technology and logistics

5. Looks forward to resuming the cycle of subprogramme evaluations, following the sixteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, with subprogramme 4 on technology and logistics, and considering the report at the ninety-first session of the Working Party.