UNDP Independent Evaluation Office
gLocal 2026 Eval Week: CD Team Global Crowdsourcing session 060426
In this participatory crowdsourcing session, global evaluation experts came together to help shape the agenda for the upcoming National Evaluation Capacity (NEC) Conference. The session was moderat...
Reflections webinar: Navigating Gender Backlash
This Reflections paper launch, held on 29 April 2026, explored evaluative evidence on how institutions can navigate gender backlash and protect gender equality gains in increasingly polarized and r...
Launch of the Global SDG Synthesis Coalition’s Peace Pillar Synthesis
February 25th 2026
This Reflections paper launch, held on 3 December 2025, presented seven key lessons on green and just transition, showing both achievements and persistent gaps:
1. Underlying values: Transitions w...
This recorded Solutions Session from the Second World Summit for Social Development (6 Nov 2025) explored how AI‑enabled evidence and evaluation synthesis can accelerate progress on social developm...
This COP30 side event and Reflections paper launch presented seven key lessons for making adaptation finance work in the world’s most at-risk settings:
1. Start with local realities. The most ef
This webinar brought together colleagues from UNDP, ILO, and beyond to unpack lessons from digital livelihoods evaluations.
Here’s what stood out:
Ecosystem matters: Bangladesh’s digital centers a...
The Beijing Action Plan for 2030 brings together voices from 106 countries to strengthen evidence-based policymaking for the #2030Agenda.
By embedding country-led evaluation systems into public po...
This session convenes government representatives, United Nations humanitarian, development, and peace agencies, alongside researchers, to share their experiences in conducting nexus evaluations and...
Read the Reflections paper here: http://web.undp.org/evaluation/reflections/pages/s5/masculinities.shtml
This session explores the following questions:
How can we design evaluation processes that facilitate two-way learning, where both evaluators and participants benefit equally from shared knowl...
This session explores the ways in which partners around the world are working to value and shape evaluation and evaluation systems around local priorities, context and knowing.
The key questions t...
There is broad consensus within the development community that gender equality remains one of the most critical development challenges we face today. Policies are widely recognized as the primary m...
The integration of knowledge management (KM) and communication is pivotal in ensuring that evaluative evidence informs policy making effectively. However, this integration often encounters challeng...
The aim of this session is to invite government officials and evaluators around the world to share their experiences on how to use evaluation for governmental coordination, in order to identify bes...
This session explores the role of development organizations, funders, and policymakers in Africa and how they can support a stronger culture of evidence generation and use.
The panel presents dive...
This panel discussion looks at the latest developments in the use of GIS project, Earth Observation Data, and Low Orbit Satellite Technology thematic and programme evaluations. Additionally, the p...
This session aims to enhance the understanding of the importance of incorporating ecological sustainability into evaluations, but above all encourage the evaluation community to implement ecologica...
In an era characterized by rapid change, political instability, and social fragmentation, the need for inclusive dialogue and collaboration has never been more urgent. As policymakers and evaluator...
Moderator:
Richard Jones, UNDP Independent Evaluation Office, Deputy Director
Speakers:
Joerg Faust, DEval
Furong Liu, China International Engineering Consulting Corporation, Deputy General Manage...