Synthesis of WHO country programme evaluations (2021)

Overview

In 2021, the WHO Evaluation Office commissioned a synthesis of the WHO country programme evaluations (CPEs) completed between 2017 and 2020. Introduced in 2017, CPEs seek to identify key achievements, challenges and areas for improvement, and to document best practices and innovations of WHO’s work in a given country. They also generate evidence that sheds light on systemic issues that require attention at the corporate level with a view to contributing to organizational learning.

In the specific case of CPEs, the focus on organizational learning has acquired heightened emphasis in light of the Organization’s explicit commitment to achieving impact at country level – and to harnessing evidence both to help achieve and demonstrate such impact – in the Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13).