Annex II: Achievement of targets for global expected accomplishments and lessons learned over 2014-2017 Introduction Reporting at the end of a programme cycle is a crucial step in the programming framework of UN Human Rights as it enables the Office to critically assess its performance over the past four years. In particular, it provides insights into the progress made over time and the impact of its work. The OHCHR Management Plan (OMP) 2014-2017 defined the results that the Office planned to achieve by the end of 2017. Consequently, this final report focuses on the achievement of those results. The assessment took into account each of the end of year progress reports from the reporting period as well as the end of programme cycle results from the country and subregional levels. This enabled UN Human Rights to present a reliable and evidencebased assessment of the degree to which its planned targets had been achieved in the course of this programming cycle, both at headquarters and in the field. This data has been instrumental in the decisionmaking processes related to the Office’s planning for 2018-2021, including in the definition of new targets. Targets and achievements In the 2014-2017 OMP, UN Human Rights presented global targets that it wanted to achieve over a fouryear period. To do so, it proposed that 37 indicators would be used to measure the achievement of 11 global expected accomplishments. The majority of these targets were specific targets that were formulated at the national level in countries of engagement.7 As this was the Office’s first attempt at setting targets for a four-year programming cycle, it was acknowledged that some targets may have been too ambitious and others may have been too modest. In addition, factors beyond the Office’s control impacted the achievement of the targets, such as the global context and significant sociopolitical changes that took place on the ground. Moreover, as a result of OHCHR’s financial situation at the beginning of the programming cycle, a number of adjustments were made to its programme of work. Several targets were therefore adjusted during the mid-term review in 2015. 7 154 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2017 Countries of engagement are those countries in which the Office has undertaken a set of activities towards a planned result. It is not limited to countries where UN Human Rights has maintained a presence.