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Simulation

You will simulate the planning and partial implementation of an evaluation of either the United Nations-sponsored and managed Internet Governance Forum (Monday and Tuesday sections) or the United Nations climate change mitigation and adaptation institutions (the Global Environment Facility, the Clean Development Mechanism, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification). You will be working for the Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) for Monitoring and Evaluation in the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) who will be coming to Syracuse to attend meetings with you. (Because of the renovation of the United Nations Headquarters Building, some of the UN's offices have been moved to outside locations, including Syracuse.)

Monday and Tuesday sections, see the Under-Secretary-General's memorandum of 12 January 2009.

Wednesday section, see the Under-Secretary-General's memorandum of 14 January 2009.

What should be evaluated?
How should data be obtained?
How should data be analyzed?

Required Readings:

The following are the initial background material on the Internet Governance Forum.

Internet Governance Project, The Road to Rio and Beyond: Results-Based Management of the UN Internet Governance Forum, 23 October 2006.

World Summit for the Information Society, Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, Tunis, November 2005.

Internet Governance Forum, Third Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Hyderabad, India, 3 – 6 December 2008, Chairman's Summary

Internet Governance Forum website

The following are the initial background material on the climate change institutions.

Global Environment Facility, Evaluation Office,The GEF Monitoring and Evaluation Policy, Evaluation Document 2006, No. 1

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, About Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and browse some of the reference documents

United Nations Environment Programme, International environmental governance, Report of the Executive Director (UNEP/GC.25/3), 12 November 2008

United Nations Environment Programme, Management of trust funds and earmarked contributions, Report of the Executive Director (UNEP/GC.25/13), 2 December 2008

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Follow-up to the Joint Inspection Unit report and strategy development to foster the implementation of the Convention, Note by the secretariat, Addendum, Draft ten-year strategic plan and framework to enhance the implementation of the Convention (2008–2018) ICCD/COP(8)/10/Add.2, 9 July 2007.

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Programme and budget, Note by the secretariat, Addendum, Report on the implications of results-based planning, programming and budgeting, ICCD/COP(8)/2/Add.11, 30 July 2007

Meeting with the Assistant-Secretary-General or the Facilitator

During the chats (or in-person session), teams will meet with the Assistant Secretary-General for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Office of Internal Oversight Services to discuss proposals.

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Week	Topic
January 19	Review of issues to include in the evaluation (with Professor Mathiason)
January 26	Expected results and performance indicators
February 2	Information acquisition strategy (on-line session)
February 23	First report on data collection, with focus on document analysis
March 2	Second report on data collection
March 16	First report on data analysis
March 23	Conclusions and recommendations