UN United Nations : Director-General s opening remarks at the World Health Assembly - 24 May 2021
05/24/2021 | 08:57am EDT
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5 May 2021
The Evaluation Service is planning to prepare an evidence synthesis of UNHCR’s adaptation and response to the COVID-19 pandemic by March 2022. This will synthesize evidence on COVID-19 by building questions into ongoing and new evaluations during 2021, thus generating evidence without placing additional operational pressures on the organization and in recognition of the logistical challenges of travel and data collection during this period. This work is accompanied by two separate evaluations; one on protecting refugee rights during COVID19 which UNHCR is leading with a collation of states and agencies; and the other, an Inter-agency Humanitarian Evaluation on the COVID-19 response, which will evaluate the Global Humanitarian Response Plan and related IASC scale-up. Both evaluations are currently scheduled to be completed in Q4 of 2021. Evidence from these evaluations will be drawn upon in this synthesis as it becomes available.