WHO Evaluation Office

The evaluation function empowers WHO’s culture of accountability, learning and decision-making to promote, provide and protect health and well-being for all people, everywhere. 

Role of WHO Evaluation: Evaluation strengthens accountability, promotes learning, and enhances organizational performance. Through impartial, high-quality assessments, the WHO Evaluation Office supports evidence-based decision-making and planning, helping ensure that WHO’s policies, systems, and interventions deliver better health outcomes for all. Evaluation is also a cornerstone of WHO’s results-based management approach. The Evaluation Office is located within the Office of Internal Oversight Services and supports the Organization’s overall evaluation function.

Independence and quality assurance: As a functionally independent entity, the Evaluation Office is dedicated to guaranteeing that evaluation processes are inclusive, impartial, and conducted with scientific rigour. Widely disseminating evaluation findings and recommendations is a key priority, with a strong emphasis on fostering opportunities for collective learning and supporting the implementation of recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness and outcomes.

Collaboration and system-wide learning: WHO Evaluation works with UN entities, global networks, and partners to enhance the quality, credibility, and impact of its evaluations. Through active engagement in UNEG and collaboration on joint and system-wide evaluations, it contributes to coherence and shared learning across the UN system.