Corporate Evaluation of UN Women's Contribution to Humanitarian Action
The Independent Evaluation and Audit Services conducted an evaluation of UN Women's work in humanitarian action from 2014-2018, assessing its relevance, effectiveness, and sustainability. The evaluation emphasized the need for stronger links between UN Women's global normative work and humanitarian coordination mechanisms to ensure gender equality remains central to humanitarian action. It also highlighted the importance of partnerships and learning from results to drive transformative change and improve programming approaches globally.
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Independent Evaluation and Audit Services (IEAS) Independent Evaluation Service (IES) CORPORATE EVALUATION OF UN WOMEN S CONTRIBUTION TO HUMANITARIAN ACTION August 2019
WHAT WAS EVALUATED The evaluation focused on UN Women s work in humanitarian action from2014-2018. The evaluation assessed the relevance, appropriateness, effectiveness, efficiency, connectedness and sustainability of UN Women s approach to humanitarian action at global, regional and countrylevel. The annual budget for UN Women s humanitarian work grew from USD3.4 million in 2011 in 4 countries to USD 27.2 million in 2017 in 43 countries. 95% of the funding under scope of this evaluation was noncore.
HOW THE EVALUATION WAS CONDUCTED 5 country visits (Cameroon, Bangladesh, Colombia, South Sudan and Jordan) + New York & Geneva Formative evaluation 461 semi-structured interviews 23 Focus Group Discussions Self-assessment questionnaire (6 regional humanitarian advisors) Extensive portfolio review (39 countries) Utilization-focused evaluation Survey with 221 responses (33% response rate) Over 550 documents reviewed
POSITIONING AND PRIORITIZATION C O N C LUSION 2 C O N C LUSION 1 Stronger links are needed between UNWomen s global normative work and humanitarian coordination mechanisms where needs and priorities are determined. UN Women helps toensure that gender equalityand the empowerment of women remains centralto humanitarian action.
FOCUS AND PARTNERSHIPS C O N C LUSION 3 C O N C LUSION 4 UN-Women should continue to build onits development work while increasing its focus on the humanitarian side of the nexus. Working in partnership can ensure that UN-Women makes contributions at sufficient scalewhile increasing opportunities for funding.
LEARNING FROM RESULTS C O N C LUSION 5 C O N C LUSION 6 Lessons from UN-Women s country levelwork should serve to improve programming approaches globally and serve as a catalyst for longer-term transformative change. There is significant evidence that UN-Women has been highly effective in its global normative work.
HUMAN AND FINANCIAL SYSTEMS/GENDER EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS C O N C LUSION 8 C O N C LUSION 7 UN-Women s reliance on non-core resources tends to make it more reactive and less strategic, andthus less efficient overall. UN-Women s capacity and expertise in humanitarian action vary across offices, risking UN-Women s ability to deliver consistently. CO N C LUSION 9 UN-Women s work exemplifies gender equality and human rights approaches.
RECOMMENDATIONS Develop a response- level strategy to complement UN Women s global humanitarian strategy. Increase effectiveness and impact in humanitarian action by better linking UN Women s work to system-wide responses. Identify necessary leadership, minimum levels of staffing and office structures for a response-level strategy in humanitarian settings. Develop global partnership frameworks with OCHA,UNHCR and UNFPA building on experience in partnerships in different contexts.
Independent Evaluation and Audit Services (IEAS) Independent Evaluation Service (IES) THANKYOU Find all corporate evaluations at: http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/accountability/evaluation/corporate-evaluations COR P OR A T E THEMATIC EVALUATION OF UN WOMEN S CONTRIBUTION TO C O R P O R A T E THEMATIC EVALUATION GOVE R N A N CE A N D NATIONAL PLANNING O F UN WOMEN S C O N T RIBUTION T O Final R eport CORPORATE THEMATIC EVALUATION OF UN WOMEN S CONTRIBUTION TO GOVERNANCE AND NATIONAL PLANNING G O V E R N A N C E A N D N A T IONAL P L A NNING CORPORATE THEMATIC EVALUATION O F UN WOMEN S CONTRIBUTION TO Final Report FinalReport GOVERNANCE AND NATIONAL PLANNING Final Report Find us on Twitter @unwomenEval
