Note to Correspondents

Inspection and Evaluation Division of Office of Internal Oversight Services

 

to Hold High-Level Panel to Assess United Nations ‘Health’, on 29 October

 

The Inspection and Evaluation Division of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS-IED) has organized a high-level panel discussion, as part of OIOS’ fifteenth anniversary commemorations.  The event, entitled “How do we know if the United Nations is working well or not?  Does evaluation provide the answers?”, will take place in Conference Room 8 of the Secretariat Building, United Nations Headquarters, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Thursday, 29 October.

Panellists will includeInga-Britt Ahlenius, OIOS Under-Secretary-General; Warren Hoge,Vice-President of the International Peace Institute and former United Nations New York Times correspondent; Collin Keating, Founding Executive Director of the Security Council Report and former New Zealand diplomat; and Saraswathi Menon, Director of the Evaluation Office of United Nations Development Programme and Chair, United Nations Evaluation Group.  (Eddie) Yee Woo Guo, acting Director, OIOS-IED will moderate the event.

This event will offer an informal platform to the Permanent Missions to the United Nations, the Secretariat, United Nations agencies and others to discuss and exchange ideas on this topic.  No RSVP is necessary.  For any questions, please contact Ellen Vinkey, tel.:  917 367 1031.

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