DIOS and Evaluation

UNRWA distribution centre in Damascus, October 2014 © UNRWA / Taghrid Mohammad
The conflict in Syria has severely impacted the lives of Palestine refugees. Almost 300,000 of the total 540,000 Palestine refugees have been displaced. UNRWA has responded with key programmatic measures to counter these adverse impacts, especially by providing emergency...
Palestine refugees sharing housing in Lebanon © Mahmoud Khair / UNRWA Archives
In early October, the Lebanon Field Office (LFO) initiated a query to the UNRWA Headquarters Evaluation Division within the Department of Oversight Services (DIOS) to ask for assistance to evaluate the LFO organizational structure and make recommendations to better align...
Evaluation of the Family Health Team approach
Between 2006 and 2010 UNRWA went through an Organizational Development process that allowed the agency to shift the responsibilities of individual departments giving them the ability to undertake reforms. Continuing this process the UNRWA health department started...
Evaluation of Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Programme
Evaluation of Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Programme
Evaluation of the Medium Term Strategy
Midway through its first comprehensive Medium Term Strategy (MTS), the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA; the Agency) is in position to evaluate how the MTS was developed and implemented and what lessons can be drawn for the...