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Evaluative Exercises Reports

2023

  • 29 Jun 2023

    The 2022 edition of DPPA’s Evaluative Exercises report contains summaries and key findings from a range of lessons learned and other evaluative exercises conducted over the past year. The majority of these studies were funded by DPPA’s Multi-Year Appeal, highlighting the importance of the fund in supporting departmental learning and accountability exercises.

2022

  • 6 Jul 2022

    To strengthen the Department’s accountability and organizational learning, DPPA commissions several evaluative exercises every year. The attached report contains summary findings and recommendations drawn from three lessons-learned studies and two self-evaluations undertaken in 2021 on a wide range of themes and countries such as Cyprus, Lebanon, Sudan/South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The exercises are confidential and cannot be shared in their entirety, but DPPA is committed to widely disseminate the executive summaries. These studies are largely funded by DPPA’s Multi-Year Appeal thanks to the support of our donors.

2021

  • 25 Mar 2021

    The report contains summary findings and recommendations drawn from four lessons-learned studies and two evaluations on a wide range of themes such as boundary dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon; UN support to local mediation; UN transition in mission settings; Value-for-Money assessment of the MYA etc.

    To strengthen the Department’s accountability and organizational learning, DPPA commissions several evaluative exercises every year. Such exercises are confidential and cannot be shared in their entirety, but DPPA is committed to widely disseminate the executive summaries.

2020

  • 14 Aug 2020

    This is the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affair’s (DPPA) second summary report of its evaluative exercises. As a learning organization, the Department commissions several evaluative exercises—lessons learned studies and evaluations—every year. This report provides key findings and recommendations of evaluative exercises commissioned by the Department in 2019, on the experience of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, CICIG; DPPA Liaison Presences; UN engagement in Kenya; the United Nations Mission in Colombia; DPA's 2016-2019 Strategic Plan and the UN’s preventive diplomacy in Gabon and the Gambia. 

2019

  • 19 Aug 2019

    A summary of evaluations and lessons-learned studies related to the work of the Department carried out in 2017 and 2018. In the spirit of transparency, the Department has decided to systematically disseminate summaries of all its self-evaluations and lessons-learned studies, if sharing of full reports is not feasible.