Core Competencies for Evaluators of the UN System

The United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) commissioned in April 2005 its Evaluation Capacities Development Task Force (ECD/TF)1 to prepare a competency profile of evaluators within the UN system.
This effort is part of a series of undertakings by UNEG to professionalize and harmonize the evaluation function within the United Nations. The first milestone reached by UNEG in 2005 was the endorsement of the Norms and Standards for Evaluation in the UN System2. The second milestone consisted of the self-assessment done in 2006 by the evaluation units of the extent to which they comply with the Norms and Standards. The preparation of the competencies profile will be the third milestone when approved by UNEG during the March 2006 meeting in Paris. A fourth milestone will be the development of a core training programme for UN evaluators.