This framework for professional peer reviews of evaluation in multilateral organizations is one contribution to the efforts in the international community to strengthen a shared agenda for improving performance in development and cooperation. Since 2004, the community of evaluators in international cooperation agencies have themselves developed and tested (through pilot peer reviews in UNDP and UNICEF) a new approach to assessing and enhancing multilateral agencies’ own evaluation capacity and performance. Now the DAC Evaluation Network and the UN Evaluation Group have joined forces to establish an internationally recognised form of peer review of the evaluation function. The joint task force will focus on developing a framework for professional peer reviews, based on previous experiences and inter-nationally recognized standards.
