评估政策（2025）：概述

1•Executive Board Decision EB155(1), and Independ-ent Expert Oversight Advisory Committee andWHO governing body recommendations.•Good/best practices of evaluation functions acrossselected UN entities documented in the 2024WHO-commissioned comparative study.•International evaluation norms and standards.•Alignment with the 14thGeneral Programme ofWork (GPW14).•Lessons learned from internal reforms, global de-velopments. evaluations, 2023 MOPAN assess-ment and pandemic-related challenges.•The Policy Increases the focus on decentralizedevaluation capacity and learning.P U R P O S E A N D U S E O F E V A L U A -T I O N SThe policy aims to foster a strong evaluation culture at WHOand ensure that evaluation findings are timely, credible,useful and effectively utilized to guide strategic and opera-tional decisions across the entire Organization increasingoperational effectiveness. Evaluation enables WHO to con-tinuously adapt and improve its performance, contributingto stronger health outcomes for all. 2and programmes should be informed by a robust body ofrelevant evaluations. These requirements cover corporate,country programme, decentralized, and joint and humani-tarian evaluations, at country, regional, and headquarterslevels. Respective responsibilities for evaluation manage-ment and indicative funding sources are included. Whileminimum standards apply, entities across WHO retain flexi-bility to prioritize evaluation topics and timing based on theirspecific policy cycles and stakeholder needs.A C C O U N T A B I L I T I E SWithin WHO’s accountability framework, authority and re-sponsibility are clearly defined, including for the evaluationfunction as a third line defence / assurance. The EvaluationPolicy outlines specific roles of key actors and establishesmechanisms to monitor its implementation across all levelsof the Organization. The Director-General, Regional Direc-tors, senior management, and heads of offices are collec-tively accountable for fostering a culture of evaluation, en-suring the policy is effectively implemented, adequately re-sourced and aligned with the United Nations EvaluationGroup’s norms and standards, with particular emphasis onsafeguarding the independence of evaluations.R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E SThe Evaluation Office serves as the custodian of the evalua-tion function at WHO, reporting directly to the Director-General and annually to the Executive Board. It is responsi-ble for ensuring the independence and impartiality of eval-uations in line with United Nations Evaluation Group normsand standards. The Office leads the development of a bien-nial Organization-wide evaluation workplan and advisessenior management on evaluation matters of strategic rele-vance. It plays a key role in promoting the use of evaluationfindings and lessons learned to inform strategic decision-making, programme planning and organizational learning.Additionally, it coordinates the implementation of the eval-uation framework across WHO’s three levels, headquarters,regional, and country offices, and works collaboratively withother oversight bodies, such as audit and ethics functions,to ensure coherence while maintaining independence.D E F I N I T I O N O F E V A L U A T I O NAn evaluation is an assessment, conducted as system-atically and impartially as possible, of an activity, pro-ject, programme, strategy, policy, topic, theme, sector,operational area or institutional performance. It anal-yses the level of achievement of both expected and un-expected results by examining the results chain, pro-cesses, contextual factors and causality using such cri-teria as relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, co-herence and sustainability.Norms for Evaluation in theUnited Nations System, UNEG, 2016 W H A T I S N E W I N T H E P O L I C YP R I N C I P L E S / N O R M S /S T A N D A R D SWHO evaluations must apply core principles of impartiality,independence, credibility, and use, alongside standards forquality, transparency and ethics. These interrelated princi-ples ensure that evaluations are robust, trustworthy andcontribute to learning and accountability across the Organ-ization.WHO evaluations and practices must adhere to the UnitedNations Evaluation Group Norms and Standards (2016) (seetable below), that are inter-linked and mutually reinforcing.These include utility, credibility, independence, impartiality,ethics, transparency, human rights and gender equality, na-tional evaluation capacities, and professionalism.C O V E R A G E N O R M SMinimum evaluation coverage norms have been introducedto meet learning and accountability needs across the Organ-ization and for Member States and are used as a foundationfor development of the biennial Organization-wide evalua-tion workplan (Executive Board approval) and operationalplanning (see table below).They ensure that evaluations are sufficiently and fairly dis-tributed across WHO’s activities and organizational levels,providing a balanced and evidence-based view o