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Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

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Background:
Evaluation is a fundamental pillar of UNICEF’s commitment to accountability, learning, and evidence-based decision-making. As outlined in the Revised Evaluation Policy of UNICEF, evaluations help ensure that programmes and policies effectively contribute to advancing children’s rights and well-being.

UNICEF upholds the principles of independence, credibility, and utility in evaluation, ensuring that findings are impartial, high-quality, and used to inform strategic decisions. The organization emphasizes country-led evaluation and capacity development while fostering a culture of evidence use at all levels.

Specifically, the evaluation function at UNICEF serves several critical purposes:

• Accountability: Demonstrating how programmes align with UNICEF’s mandate and contribute to measurable results for children.
• Learning and Improvement: Identifying lessons learned and best practices to refine strategies and interventions.
• Evidence-Based Decision-Making: Providing reliable data to inform policies, programmes design, and resource allocation.
• Transparency and Stakeholder Engagement: Strengthening partnerships with governments, donors, and civil society through accessible evaluation findings.

Over the past few years, UNICEF West and Central Africa (WCA) Regional and Country Offices conducted various types of evaluations, including strategic evaluations of major initiatives, policies, country programmes, programme components, projects or thematic areas, tailored to specific contexts, with support for evaluation national systems.

In the coming years, more than ever, the WCA Regional Office is committed to enhancing evaluation function, by conducting high-quality evaluations, strengthening the use of evaluation findings as well as the capacity of national evaluation systems across the region, and ensuring that countries can generate and apply evidence to improve outcomes for children.

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