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United Nations: Progress To Strengthen U.N. Internal Evaluation Systems Has Been Slow

NSIAD-87-54 Published: Jan 14, 1987. Publicly Released: Jan 14, 1987.
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GAO provided information on: (1) the United Nations (UN) headquarters' progress in strengthening internal evaluation; and (2) U.S. efforts to monitor and promote the evaluation and to assess UN development programs.

Recommendations

Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of State The Secretary of State should direct U.S. representatives to UN to pursue implementation of the 1981 and 1983 General Assembly resolutions by requesting the UN Secretary General to: (1) provide the necessary staff resources to establish or strengthen evaluation units for all UN headquarters organizations; (2) review the CEU staffing requirements to ensure that it is adequately staffed to carry out its central evaluation activities; (3) establish time frames and milestones for completing initial evaluation training, providing central evaluation information services, and integrating evaluation into the program planning and budgeting cycle; and (4) provide annual reports on the status of evaluation systems' implementation.
Closed – Implemented
State has made a final effort to push this recommendation through the formal U.N. channels. Detailed instructions have been prepared for UN representatives. State will submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees once the results in the UN General Assembly are known.

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Evaluation methodsInternal controlsProgram evaluationProgram managementAgency evaluationsInternational organizationsProfessional staffBudgetingRefugeesInternational trade