“How well does UNICEF carry out its CLA role and what should it do for the future?”

Preliminary Draft Findings – Not for Distribution

Evaluation of UNICEF’s Cluster (co)Lead Agency Role

Draft Findings July 2013

This is for UNICEF’s (co)leadership of 5 clusters/AoRs: WASH, Nutrition, Education, GBV and Child Protection

Overall: Summary of key findingsPreliminary Draft Findings – Not for Distribution

High perception of overall effectiveness; Increasingly robust cluster coordination services; strong country level partnership performance.

CLA role well integrated in broad policy level and improvements with consolidation of clusters in one unit. Broad match between UNICEF programme capacity and CLA role

Significant improvement in cluster surge capacity (RRT, Stand-by partners)

Active participation in IASC and Transformative Agenda work

Strong perception of partners that cluster outcomes justify investment

Investment in CLA role not excessive

Some weakness in global partnership performacne and lack of clarity on coordination roles and responsibilities: internally and externally with partners

Challenges in UNICEF representation of cluster members in HCTs

Fragmented HR approach and lack of coordination career path. Limited capacity development of staff. Double-hatting reduces effectiveness.

Lack of organisation-wide cluster policies and guidance

Clusters increasingly filling gaps beyond emergency coordination and much investment at field level in long-term sectoral coordination contexts.

Cross cluster collaboration insufficient

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National Survey : Organisation type

80 participants in national survey

Nutrition cluster: Summary of findingsPreliminary Draft Findings – Not for Distribution

UNICEF generally fulfills partnership principles in its leadership role and partners actively involved in the cluster.

For country partners there seem to be adequate tools and guidance.

Partners overwhelming feel the outcomes and objectives of the cluster justify their investments.

Partners feel support by the cluster to monitoring and assessment has helped to reach people and has improved programme coverage.

National partners feel cluster is effective at supporting needs assessment, advocacy, resource mobilisation (to lesser extent).

Country level coordination and IM staff for the most part have the right technical and coordination skills.

Amount and type of resource support to national clusters from the global cluster is less strong than for available tools and guidelines.

Inter-cluster collaboration is modest, globally and nationally.

UNICEF is not capitalising on its programming and technical capacity to support the outcomes of the cluster.

Perception of global partners of cluster performance and comparative advantage of UNICEF is less positive than national partners.

Improvements could be made to preparedness support provided by national clusters.

Cluster de-activiation procedures are weak or not applied.

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