Office of Internal Oversight

Evaluation

Evaluation is a management tool that contributes to decision-making, strategic planning, and organizational learning

The Evaluation Unit

The Evaluation Unit of the OSCE's Office of Internal Oversight (OIO) manages and conducts independent evaluations to assess the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, impact and sustainability of the OSCE’s work. OIOOIO
Office of Internal Oversight’s evaluations usually focus on strategic and/or thematic areas of relevance, and look at them from a cross-organizational perspective. Evaluations are guided by OSCE’s Evaluation policy, international evaluation norms and standards and ethical guidelines. OIO’s reports make evidence-based recommendations and contribute to decision-making, organizational learning and strengthen accountability for results.

The Evaluation Unit also provides advisory, capacity building and other support services to strengthen the OSCE’s decentralized evaluation function and culture. The unit manages the organization's Evaluation Network that includes Evaluation Focal Points from all OSCE executive structures. It serves as the main mechanism for strengthening the decentralized evaluation function, build evaluation capacities and exchange practices. The Evaluation Unit is an institutional member of the European Evaluation Society and contributes to relevant UNEG working groups.

Reports

Document collection

OSCE at 50: Outcome Harvesting Initiative

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act in 2025, the OSCE Office of Internal Oversight launched an Outcome Harvesting initiative in 2024 and gathered 50+ Outcome Stories from OSCE staff. The stories highlight changes the Organization helped to bring about with its practical work in the region over the past two decades. The initiative aims to give a broader audience an insight into examples of OSCE’s contributions to change, foster evaluative thinking among OSCE staff, and provide key stakeholders food for thought as they deliberate on how the Organization can add the most value to foster security co-operation in Europe in the future.
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OIO independent evaluations

Working on stable access to energy sources on a timely, sustainable and affordable basis in the OSCE: Independent Evaluation of the OSCE’s work on Energy Security

This report provides an independent evaluation of the OSCE’s activities on energy security during the period 2010–2022. The assessment was conducted between October 2023 and June 2024 by a mixed team of the OSCE’s Office of Internal Oversight (OIO) staff and an independent energy security senior expert.
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OIO independent evaluations

Promoting gender equality in the OSCE and its participating States: Independent Evaluation of the implementation of the 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality (2018-2022)

This report provides an assessment of the progress made in the implementation of the OSCE’s 2004 Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality (GAP) between 2018 – 2022. The GAP is a strategic policy document adopted by the OSCE participating States in 2004. It has guided the organization’s efforts to mainstream gender in the structures and working environment of the organization (pillar 1), mainstream gender into OSCE’s projects and programmes (pillar 2), and to promote gender equality in the participating States.
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Contact

Evaluation unit

Office of internal oversight

Evaluation unit

Email: OIOeval@osce.org