Good morning, esteemed colleagues. Good morning, Alexander. Could you briefly describe your organizational role as it relates to oversight and evaluation? Donal I am responsible for the quality of the results of all IFAD’s projects and programmes. I place a strong emphasis on delivering development results and therefore ensuring that we have an accountable, learning oriented, self and independent evaluation system, because to improve results we need to improve learning. Jyotsna Evaluation, and especially independent evaluation, plays a very important role because it gives us an unbiased, independent perspective of the direction the organization has taken so far and it gives us a baseline to build strategies that can make IFAD future-fit. In this context, I think that Gilbert (NB: IFAD President), in his wisdom, brought in someone like me, who understands the evaluation perspective, to sit on the management side so that we could create a space within IFAD that appreciates engagement value between evaluation and management. Nigel The Operational Policy and Results Division is responsible for aggregating results from self-evaluation products. We are responsible for the corporate results management framework, and for reporting to the member states annually through the Report on IFAD’s Development Effectiveness (RIDE). We support an enabling environment between IOE and PMD for self and independent evaluation. Dina As regional director, my role is predominantly one of oversight in terms of deliverables, in terms of making sure that compliance standards are met. I look at certain performance measures and indicators, and I hold conversations around that to make sure that we evaluate those results properly. Sara Regional and country teams have very specific roles regarding oversight. We have significant financial resources. We have to monitor the quality of the portfolio, and understand the impacts in terms of transformation. The interface between evaluation and our oversight is structured. There is a whole framework of accountability. We have agreements at completion point and, as regional director, I have to respond to IOE’s recommendations. These are documented and I am accountable to the audit and evaluation committee.
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