Universalia has been awarded the contract to conduct the corporate thematic evaluation of UN-WOMEN’s contribution to United Nations-system coordination on gender equality and women’s empowerment. This is the first corporate evaluation that UN-Women requests of its coordination mandate. The evaluation will take place between January and December 2015. The findings will be used for strategic decision making, organizational learning and accountability as well as for the generation of knowledge on what works and what doesn’t work in UN interagency coordination work to advance gender equality at global, regional and country level. The evaluation is also expected to feed into UN Women’s efforts to promote the gender equality goal in the post-2015 development framework and inform Beijing +20 discussions and implementation and the next Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR). In addition, findings from this evaluation will inform the mid-term review of UN Women Strategic Plan.
The targeted users of the evaluation are the UN Women Executive Board, CEB, UNRCs and UNCTs, as well as UN Women senior management and staff and key stakeholders in the area of Coordination.
The Universalia core team includes Katrina Rojas as Team Leader, Elisabetta Micaro as Senior Evaluation Expert, Marie-Helene Adrien as Senior Methodological Expert, and Marie-Laure Talbot as Evaluation Consultant. The core team will work in close collaboration with senior coordination experts at global and country levels.