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Part Four: Implementation of the Evaluation
Policy
With the exception of the OE work programme and budget for 2003 and
the related question of the promotion of OE staff, the new evaluation
policy will become effective as of its approval by the Board. Policy provisions
that are already current at IFAD will enter into force upon the Board’s
approval of the policy. However, there will be a staggered introduction,
between the date the Executive Board approves the policy and the date
the policy becomes effective, of those provisions that are new, have budgetary
implications and/or require a lead time for implementation. The following
policy provisions will be implemented in this way:
(i) The formulation of the OE work programme
and budget for 2004 will commence in April 2003 under the new policy.
However, the expenditures and the implementation of the OE work programme
for 2003 will be managed under the current system and within the OE
work programme and budget for 2003 already approved by the Board and
the Governing Council.
(ii) The provisions concerning “Devising
the Evaluation Approach” and the "Evaluation
Analysis and Report” – including OE’s
authority to issue evaluation reports directly and without prior
clearance from anyone outside OE , and the provisions relating to learning
with partners and reporting, follow-up,
disclosure and dissemination – will enter into force upon the
Board’s approval of the policy as they have no budgetary implications
and consist of practices that are mostly already in place. However,
the annual President’s report on
the status of adoption of evaluation recommendations. will be submitted
to the Board for the first time in 2004.
(iii) Provisions relating to the management of OE
staff and consultants. will enter into force upon the Board’s
approval of this policy. However, the recruitment of staff under the
new policy will commence with the first vacancy that occurs after approval,
while provisions relating to the promotion of OE staff will apply with
effect from 1 January 2004 as these have budgetary implications.
(iv) The provisions relating to the OE Director will be implemented
after a decision from the Executive Board concerning the transition
period for the implementation of paragraphs 97(a) and 97(b) of document
GC 26/L.4, Enabling the Rural Poor to Overcome their Poverty: Report
on the Consultation on the Sixth Replenishment of IFAD’s Resources
(2004 – 2006).
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