IOM Guiding Documents

The Evaluation Annual Report for the year 2023 presents a comprehensive overview of the Division's activities, achievements, and initiatives throughout the year, highlighting its commitment to promoting accountability, performance assessment, innovation, institutional learning, organizational leadership, and evidence-based decision-making.

The Central Evaluation Division (CED) continues to strengthen its capacity and independence in the conduct of its mandate through the implementation of the Evaluation Strategy 2024-2028. This ongoing effort is in response to the positive assessment and recommendations of the MOPAN 2023 review. In line with the IOM Strategic Plan 2024-2028 and the Strategic Results Framework 2024, the main objective of the Evaluation Strategy 2024-2028 is to strengthen IOM’s independent oversight and evaluation culture, thereby contributing to accountability, performance assessment, innovation, learning, and evidence-based decision-making.

The Peer Review of IOM’s evaluation function was conducted under the provisions contained in the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Framework for Professional Peer Reviews of the Evaluation Function of UN organizations and the OECD DAC. It is the first Peer Review of IOM’s evaluation function and it was conducted at the request of IOM. This Peer Review also builds on the findings of the Multilateral Organization Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) review of 2019. The review covers the entire evaluation system comprising both the central and decentralized evaluation functions.

The IOM Biennial Evaluation Plan for 2023-2024 outlines a selection of central evaluations to be conducted by the IOM Central Evaluation Division during 2023-2024.

Evaluation is a core function of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which is tasked to promote it, set the relevant policies and guidelines for the entire organization and conduct corporate evaluations.

The Evaluation Annual Report for the year 2022 presents a comprehensive summary of the evaluation activities undertaken during the year, along with the implementation of changes in the IOM Central Evaluation Division (CED). The report highlights the efforts to align with global evaluation norms and standards, enhance the independence of the evaluation function, and improve the quality of evaluations. The report provides an update on the Evaluation Policy and the newly developed Central Evaluation Division Charter, and offers an overview of the Biennial Evaluation Plans and the decentralized evaluations.