PADM 5345 - Evaluation of International Programs and Projects

4. Assessing the quality of international evaluations

12 and 14 February 2024

International organizations are increasingly using new procedures to ensure the quality of the evaluations that they undertake. Organizations like UNICEF, UNFPA and UNODC have all established systems to have external reviews for evaluation quality assessment (EQA).

Questions covered	Was the evaluation designed to measure what the programme really intended? Was an evaluation matrix used? Were the data acquired reliably? Were the findings based on the data? Were the conclusions consistent with the findings? Were the recommendations based on the conclusions?
Lectures	Lecture in Canvas
Required readings	· WFP, Evaluation Matrix, Technical Note o UNICEF, Revised Evaluation Policy of UNICEF (2018) o UNICEF, Global Evaluation Reports Oversight System, Guidance Handbook June 2020 o UNFPA, Explanatory Notes for UNFPA Evaluation Quality Assessment Grid
Individual Exercise	Read the UNICEF Summative Evaluation of the Impact of Using Drones on Population Health and Other Outcomes in Malawi in the Canvas Using the UNICEF GEROS template in the Canvas, code the Evaluation (only code the "Assessment Level" and the questions (Y,N,P) for each criterion; do not make comments. Send your completed template to your GA by Sunday, 11 February. In class, we will compare the class's EQA's with the official EQA
Simulation	During this period, the logframes for each project should be completed and we will discuss them in the light of EQA methods.
On-line session recording	Monday, Wednesday, 12, 14 February 2024 will be in the course Canvas

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Revised: February 3, 2024 .