VIII.A: Monitoring and Reporting

Provide for monitoring and reporting

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151. Outcomes must be nationally owned, and, as such, the first line of accountability rests with national authorities. UNDP is to make contributions to these outcomes, and its chief accountability must therefore be for its contributions to development impact. UNDP on-the-ground performance should be assessed first at the country level as part of a joint process with governments and other partners, and second at the corporate level by senior management and the Executive Board, based on monitoring and evaluation data. UNDP is directly accountable for the corporate services and global and regional programmes that support country programmes. 152. Annual performance data will inform the ongoing management review of performance to ensure that the organization remains on track regarding objectives. A sub-set of this data will be used for reporting to the Executive Board on a biennial basis. All UNDP country programmes will be required to hold at least one joint portfolio review annually with governments and other stakeholders at the national and local levels. 153. Reporting to the Executive Board will centre on the strategic development priorities and key coordination and management initiatives for the cycle. UNDP commitment to providing more strategic, results-oriented information in future reports to the Board is facilitated in part by the decision to align the evaluation plan more closely with the strategic plan, and, on a rotational basis, to conduct thematic or strategic evaluations in areas where UNDP is considered to have a leadership or significant role in influencing development results at the global and country levels. It is also facilitated by the wide array of internal monitoring tools that are currently in place, including the ‘balanced scorecard’, Atlas, and the partners survey, among others. As described in the management section of this strategic plan, these tools will be improved to meet the requirements of the plan and the wider management needs of the organization. Risk management indicators are also being incorporated into the overall system. 154. UNDP will provide the Board, at its annual session 2010, with a comprehensive and analytical results-based mid-term review of the strategic plan. This review will not only report on management, coordination and development outputs but will analytically assess achievements in terms of development outcomes, verified with survey and evaluation data, and identify lessons learned and best practices. In addition to this report on performance, the Executive Board will have access to: (a) Annual reports by the Administrator, which include performance data; (b) Evaluations undertaken for country programmes nearing the end of their cycle and before the development of new programmes; (c) Annual assessments of development results done by the UNDP Evaluation Office, and other independent strategic and country-level evaluations; and (d) The donor tracking website, which will facilitate monitoring of donor contributions to UNDP. 155. All evaluation in UNDP is conducted in accordance with rules defined in the evaluation policy. The policy was developed and approved by the UNDP Executive Board at the 2006 annual session, and is consistent with General Assembly resolution 59/250 and the norms and standards for evaluation set by UNEG of April 2005.

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