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digital space and emerging technologies.
This new roadmap is anchored in the 2030
Sustainable Development Agenda and
has a particular focus on the Agenda’s human rights-based commitment to “Leave
No One Behind”. The OMP also shines a
human rights “spotlight” on women, persons with disabilities and young people.
The OMP leads to a strong results framework with risk management, introduced
in 2018, as an integral component of programme management.
MONITORING
Monitoring of the UN Human Rights performance against the targets set by the
OMP takes place through the Performance
Monitoring System; a tailor-made online
tool that facilitates planning, monitoring and
reporting on a common set of office-wide
results in line with results-based management principles and standards. As the
2018-2021 OMP introduces a new results
framework, the Performance Monitoring
System was also updated. In 2018, key performance indicators reflect the utility of the
Performance Monitoring System:
• More than 570 unique users accessed
the system;
• Over 11,500 sessions by users with editing rights;
• Over 95 per cent of user support requests
addressed within 3 hours;
• Less than 1 per cent downtime throughout 2018.
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EVALUATION
MOPAN ASSESSMENT HIGHLIGHTS SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN
ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
The Multilateral Organization Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN),
composed of 18 governments, assesses the performance of multilateral organizations. Its mission is to support its members in assessing the
effectiveness of multilateral organizations that receive development and humanitarian funding. Together, the members of MOPAN provide 95 per cent
of all Official Development Assistance (ODA) to multilateral organizations.
MOPAN assessed UN Human Rights during 2017-2018. The assessment
proved to be of great value for UN Human Rights, offering recommendations
for strengthening its capacity to provide the best possible support to those
whom it serves.
The report analysed the strengths of UN Human Rights, as well as the
opportunities and challenges it faces in fulfilling the High Commissioner’s
mandate. The assessment concluded that:
“During the period under review, but especially compared with the situation
in 2008, the Office has come a long way, despite the fact that its relatively
limited resources are constantly stretched – across functions, themes and
regions. Today, human rights violations are on the rise, and the fundamental
principles that underpin their universality, indivisibility, interdependency
and interrelations are being contested by UN Member States themselves.
Furthermore, the gap between OHCHR’s mandate and resourcing is increasing, and funding is becoming less predictable. Nonetheless, OHCHR’s
organizational performance has, paradoxically, never been better.” (…)
“The relatively small Office of the High Commissioner is punching above
its weight. This situation was created by the combination of (1) a corporate
culture that sees as its mission to protect rights-holders, to set ambitious
goals and targets for itself and to weather the storm if necessary, and (2) its
dynamic inspirational leadership. However, when the Office’s mandate and
its own ambitions do not keep pace with its financial and human resources,
and partners are unwilling or unable to engage more heavily themselves,
this raises pertinent questions about the Office’s future sustainability.”
Full assessment of OHCHR is available at: http://www.mopanonline.org/
assessments/ohchr2017-18/index.htm
During 2018, the UN Human Rights evaluation unit managed an unprecedented 10
evaluations and evaluative exercises, including thematic evaluations, programme
and project evaluations and reviews at
headquarters and in the field, and management reviews of field presences.
A number of assessments initiated in 2017
were finalized in 2018, including an evaluation of UN Human Rights support for the
conformity of legislation with international
standards; an evaluation of the country
programme in Honduras and the review of
a technical cooperation project in Nigeria.
United Nations Development Assistance
Frameworks (UNDAFs) using a gender lens. It also initiated a peer learning
exchange for reporting on the UN Systemwide Action Plan on Gender Equality and
the Empowerment of Women (UN-SWAP)
evaluation indicator within the framework of the Working Group’s workplan for
2018-2019.
Follow-up on the implementation of the
recommendations stemming from the
evaluations is a PBRB responsibility and
managers are requested to submit updates on this every six months.
The Evaluation Plan under the new OMP
2018-2021 was also approved and its
implementation initiated with: management reviews of the country programmes
of offices based in Yaoundé and Seoul;
a review of the Dignity@Work Contacts
Network; the planning and preparation of
evaluations of the Uganda country programme, the Doha-based Training and
Documentation Centre for South-West
Asia and the Arab Region; and a thematic
evaluation of the implementation of results-based management in UN Human
Rights that will be concluded in 2019.
Support was also provided to the
Multilateral Organization Performance
Assessment Network (MOPAN) assessment of UN Human Rights; the Office of
Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) evaluation of the effectiveness of human rights
monitoring, reporting and follow-up in the
United Nations multi-dimensional peacekeeping operations; the OIOS evaluation of
UN system-wide support to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development and for the OIOS biennial
report of the evaluation function. The UN
Evaluation Group’s Working Group on human rights and gender equality, which was
co-convened by UN Human Rights, began its preparations for a meta-analysis of
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