Quality assessment of UNFPA decentralized country programme evaluations.

As per the UNFPA evaluation policy,
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the Evaluation Branch at DOS is responsible for providing
assurance on the quality of evaluations. This report presents the results of the evaluation quality
assessment (EQA) completed by the Evaluation Branch in 2012, and covering evaluations conducted
in 2010 and 2011.
Following a request from the Executive Board in 2009,2
that UNFPA programmes be evaluated at
least once during their cycle, all programmes due to end in 2010-2011 were subject to an evaluation
prior to their renewal. The country programme evaluation (CPE) coverage thus rose from 14% in
2009 to 80% in 2010,
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and to 100% in 2011. In order to assess whether this significant quantitative
progress was accompanied by a parallel improvement in the quality of CPEs, the Evaluation Branch
decided to fully devote its 2012 EQA exercise to decentralized CPEs.