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Developing a methodology to evaluate multilateral effectiveness
Efforts such as multidonor evaluations of multilaterals, the work of MOPAN, and peer reviews of multilaterals’ evaluation functions have contributed information on the organisational effectiveness of multilaterals. As a number of DAC members spend a large portion of their aid budgets via multilateral institutions, there is however a growing demand for further information on the development effectiveness of these institutions.
To overcome the perceived information gap an approach is currently being developed to try to evaluate multilateral effectiveness. This approach will build on the work by MOPAN and where possible also the peer reviews of evaluation functions. Building on existing information would avoid duplication of work, evaluation fatigue and lessen the burden placed on multilaterals for information.
Peer reviews of multilateral evaluation systems
The DAC Evaluation Network and the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) have joined forces to conduct peer reviews of the evaluation functions of UN organisations. These peer reviews are conducted using a framework developed by a collaborative task team of the two groups.
Since 2004 UNDP, UNICEF, World Food Programme, the Global Environmental Fund, the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the United Nations (OIOS) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have, on a voluntary basis, been peer reviewed. See reports below.
The approach has several purposes: building greater knowledge, confidence and use of evaluation systems by management, governing bodies and others; providing a suitable way of “evaluating the evaluators”; sharing good practice, experience and mutual learning.
A peer review of the evaluation functions of an organisation is not in itself an assessment of the effectiveness of that organisation. However, it can contribute to the basis for assessing the effectiveness of the organisation, by testing the capacity and quality of the organisation’s own evaluations of effectiveness, and thus the confidence that can be placed in them.
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