The Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) identified the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for evaluation based on a risk assessment carried out in 2008. The Committee for Programme and Coordination selected the programme evaluation of UNHCR for consideration at its fifty-third session in June 2013 (see A/66/16, para. 61). The General Assembly endorsed the selection in its resolution 66/8 (see para. 6). Following consultations and discussions with UNHCR senior management and building from recent findings emanating from the Board of Auditors and external reviews, it was agreed that it would be more timely and useful at this juncture to conduct a review of the evaluation capacity of UNHCR before undertaking an evaluation of the programme.
The purpose of this review was to:
- Assess the current evaluation capacity in UNHCR; and
- Determine how it could be improved to better contribute to organizational results, learning and accountability.
