Evaluation of UNCTAD activities

The Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget

1. Reaffirms the importance of evaluations as a powerful tool for accountability and organizational learning and for further improving results-based management at UNCTAD in line with United Nations guidelines;
    
2. Commends the subprogramme 5 independent evaluation team for a useful and insightful report;
    
3. Looks forward to the implementation of the subprogramme 5 evaluation recommendations by the secretariat and the subsequent presentation of the evaluation follow-up at its seventy-eighth session in September 2019;
    
4. Appreciates the efforts made by the secretariat in implementing the recommendations of subprogramme 4;
    
5. Requests the secretariat, by way of stocktaking, to present, during its seventy-eighth session, a review of the evaluation findings from the five subprogramme evaluations conducted to date and an update on the status of implementation of the recommendations from the five evaluations;
    
6. Requests the secretariat to continue its subprogramme evaluation approach after the fifteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and to focus on streamlining costs and fundraising extrabudgetary resources for this purpose, taking into account the outcome of the review of the evaluation findings in 2019.