CORPORATE EVALUATION OF THE REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE UN WOMEN

STRENGTHENING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR DELIVERING GENDER EQUALITY RESULTS Corporate evaluation of the Regional Architecture of UN Women

Independent Evaluation Office ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report, and the overall evaluation process, was and Central Africa; Mohammad Naciri, Regional Director, informed and enriched by the participation of more than Regional Office for Arab States; Roberta Clarke, former 300 stakeholders, staff and partners, many of whom actively Regional Director, Regional Office for Asia Pacific; Belen contributed to the development of evaluation findings by Sanz, Country Representative, Colombia; Awa Ndiaye Seck, serving as reference group members, attending focus group Country Representative, Liberia; Leila Rhiwi, Multi-Country discussions and workshops, and completing comprehensive Office Representative, Morocco; Elaine M. Conkievich, surveys. Without the support and active participation of all Multi-Country Office Representative Kazakhstan) who these women and men involved in the consultation process, provided thoughtful comments and insights, and invested this report would not have been possible. significant time and effort during the inception phase to The evaluation was conducted by an external evaluation ensure that the evaluation would be of maximum value company with a large team and led by Tessie Tzavaras and use to the organization. Catsambas from Encompass. The UN Women Indepen- We also extend our thanks to the Senior Management dent Evaluation Office team included Marco Segone, Inga Team of UN Women for their feedback contribution to Sniukaite and Florencia Tateossian. the evaluation, particularly Yannick Glemarec, Assistant We would like to thank Evaluation Advisor (Charles Lusthaus, Secretary-General/Deputy Executive Director of Policy and Programme; Maria Noel Vaeza, Director, Programme expert in management, organizational theory, and insti- tutional evaluation and change, co-founder and senior Division; Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary General/Deputy consultant at Universalia) and the Internal Evaluation Director of UN System Coordination, Intergovernmental Reference Group (Prasun Chakraborty, Human Resources Support and Strategic Partnerships; Khetsiwe Dlamini, Chief Specialist, Human Resources Division; Themba Kalua, of Staff; Moez Doraid, Director, Division of Management Strategic Planning and Coordination Specialist, Regional and Administration; Fiona Bourdin-Farrell, Director, Human Office for Eastern and Southern Africa; Alia El-Yassir, Resources Division; Kristin Hetle, former Director, Strategic Deputy Director, Regional Office for Europe and Central Partnerships Division and Julien Pellaux, Strategic Planning Asia; Moni Pizani, former Country Representative, Ecuador; and Operations Adviser. Sabine Machl, Country Representative, Palestine; Michele The evaluation also benefited from active involvement Ribotta, Coordination Advisor, Coordination Division; and buy-in from five country office visited. We thank the Julie Ballington, Political Participation Advisor, Policy country representatives and staff of these offices for all the Division; Jean-Luc Bories, Secretary of the Executive Board; dedicated time they invested in supporting the evaluation Daniel Seymour, Deputy Director, Programme Division; process and in facilitating the engagement and inclusion Donna Grimwade, Chief of Accounts, Finance Section; of a wide range partners, stakeholders and beneficiaries of Axel de Ville, Deputy Director, Regional Office for West their work.

EVALUATION TEAM: EVALUATION MANAGEMENT: Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas, Team Leader UN Women Independent Evaluation Office Katherine Bourne, Senior Evaluation Expert Director: Leslie Fox, Senior Organizational Assessment Expert Marco Segone Fred Carden, Governance and Decentralization Expert Evaluation Task Managers: Kelsey Simmons, Evaluation Associate Inga Sniukaite, Senior Evaluation Task Manager Florencia Tateossian, Evaluation Task