Evaluation of UNCTAD activities

The Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget

1. Commends the subprogramme 4 independent evaluation team for a useful and insightful report;
    
2. Looks forward to the implementation of the subprogramme 4 evaluation recommendations by the secretariat and the subsequent presentation of the evaluation follow-up during its seventy-seventh session in September 2018;
    
3. Reaffirms the importance of evaluations as a powerful tool for accountability and organizational learning and for further improving the results-based management function;
    
4. Requests the secretariat to conduct consultations with member States starting immediately after the sixty-fourth session of the Trade and Development Board, in order to present a draft evaluation plan for 2019–2021 prior to the sixty-sixth executive session of the Trade and Development Board.