Evaluation

The Evaluation Office is responsible for establishing an effective evaluation system throughout UNESCO to inform evidence-based policies and programmes and for greater accountability and organizational learning. A network of Evaluation Focal Points strengthens the decentralized evaluation system across the Organization.

Check out our UNESCO Evaluation Policy, UNESCO Evaluation Guidelines and the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) Guidance Documents.

A Professional Peer Review of the evaluation function of UNESCO was carried out in autumn 2019 by the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) and the full report is available here.

Evaluation of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN)

Full evaluation report

March 2024

Summary paper for Executive Board

219 EX/12

Full evaluation report (in Spanish)
Evaluation Brief

Number 52

Evaluation Brief (in Spanish)

Number 52

Evaluation of UNESCO’s Periodic Reporting on the Culture Sector’s Conventions and Recommendations

Full evaluation report

March 2024

Summary paper for Executive Board

219 EX/13

Evaluation of the PREAT (Project to Strengthen Education and Literacy in Chad) and PUREAT (Emergency Project to Strengthen Education and Literacy in Chad) projects

Full evaluation report (in French)

December 2023

Evaluation of the Implementation of the renewed mandate of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)

Full evaluation report

September 2023

Summary paper for Executive Board

217 EX/27

Evaluation brief

Number 51

Evaluation of UNESCO's work on teacher development

Full evaluation report

April 2023

Summary paper for Executive Board

216 EX/6

Evaluation brief

Number 49

Evaluation of the knowledge products of the Social and Human Sciences Sector

Full evaluation report

March 2023

Summary paper for Executive Board

216 EX/10

Evaluation brief

Number 48

Evaluation of UNESCO's response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Full evaluation report

March 2023

Summary paper for Executive Board

216 EX/14

Evaluation brief

Number 47

This video presents some of the main findings drawn from the IOS evaluation as well as some of the key recommendations issued as regards the programmes the Organisation developed and the support it provided to Member States during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This video is also available in French and Spanish.

Evaluation of the UNESCO Human Resources Management Strategy, 2017-2022

Full evaluation report

March 2023

Summary paper for Executive Board

216 EX/13

See other evaluations for 2022 and previous years

Syntheses of UNESCO Evaluations

2023 Synthesis of UNESCO Evaluations

Syntheses from previous years