At the same time, companies seeking evaluations of their creditworthiness are allowed to give rating agencies detailed nonpublic financial information that other analysts are not privy to because of securities regulations, thus lending an additional imprimatur to the agencies' evaluations.
The evaluation was framed as an internal exercise because a future planned inter-agency evaluation will look more widely at the performance of United Nations agencies.
Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action ALNAP was established in 1997, following the multi-agency evaluation of the Rwanda genocide.
The purpose of this internal assessment is to serve as an immediate feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of UNICEF-supported projects and as a learning experience for immediate project implementation and the inter-agency evaluation at a later stage.
An inter-agency evaluation is currently underway to assess the situation of displaced people in Mugunga I and III, Lac Vert and Goma and to ensure an efficient and adequate response to nutritional, educational, water, health and household item needs.
The thought was that simultaneous agency evaluation of new methods that addressed the 3Rs (reduction, refinement, and replacement) of animal testing by an interagency group could greatly speed up and harmonize the cross-agency acceptance and adoption of new methods into federal toxicity testing guidelines.
They doubted the academic benefit of such programs — something internal agency evaluations had already suggested and soon confirmed.
A thorough and impartial study of MDB financial capacity and strength wouldn't take the place of rating agency evaluations, but it would provide a credible reference point allowing the agencies to make their own methodologies less conservative while protecting themselves from criticism.
The final group includes various agency evaluations of supported employment intervention programs, which are an alternative to traditional vocational supports for people with psychiatric disabilities.
These include a number of joint or inter-agency evaluations, where UNICEF is part of a broader joint effort, as well as UNICEF-led humanitarian evaluations.
This is despite the fact that UNICEF frequently facilitates and even leads sectoral and inter-agency coordination in humanitarian contexts and the emphasis at UNICEF (and the UN generally) on country-level and inter-agency evaluations.
