WHO Evaluation Office

The WHO Evaluation Office plays a pivotal role in advancing performance, bolstering accountability, and supporting organizational learning. It serves to foster collaboration with partners to assess outcomes and disseminate crucial insights aimed at improving health outcomes globally. By catalysing a culture of continuous improvement, the office strives to enhance the effectiveness of initiatives, ensuring that WHO is at the forefront of promoting health and well-being for all.

As an independent entity, the Office is dedicated to guaranteeing that evaluation processes are both inclusive and impartial and conducted with scientific rigor. Widely disseminating evaluation findings and recommendations is a key priority, with a strong emphasis on fostering opportunities for collective learning. The focus extends to actively exploring ways to implement recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness and outcomes.

A thorough review of the evaluation function, incorporating insights from diverse entities, has led to the development and ongoing implementation of a robust framework focused on six key action areas:

1. Establishing an enabling environment and governance
2. Evaluation capacity resources
3. Evaluation work plan, scope and modalities
4. Evaluation recommendations and management response
5. Organizational learning
6. Communicating evaluation work

WHO Evaluation Office is a member of UNEG, ALNAP and the European Evaluation Society.

Contact

The WHO Evaluation Office is headed by Dr Masahiro Igarashi, Director of the Department of Evaluation.

Email: evaluation@who.int