EQAS Evaluation Quality Assurance System

The Evaluation Quality Assurance System (EQAS) is a comprehensive system covering all types of evaluations managed by WFP:

• Centralized evaluations, those commissioned and managed by the Office of Evaluation, which include strategic, policy, country strategic plan, corporate emergency and synthesis evaluations.
• Decentralized evaluations, those commissioned and managed by WFP country offices, regional bureaux and HQ divisions.
• Impact evaluations, those managed and conducted by the Office of Evaluation's Impact Evaluation Unit and its technical partners in close coordination with the regional bureau and country office involved in implementing the programme.

EQAS builds on the norms and standards of the United Nations Evaluation Group, the OECD-DAC Evaluation Network, related tools from the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP), and the wider evaluation literature and community of practice.

EQAS is composed by a series of guidance for process and content organized by evaluation types. It provides guidance and quality standards on: 

• Each step in the evaluation process, to ensure transparency and a systematic way of working across evaluation teams
• The structure of evaluation deliverables, to ensure comprehensive coverage of the evaluation subject, and systematic, comparable reporting
• Expected quality standards, including criteria for quality assurance
• Specific aspects of an evaluation process or detailed guidance on aspects of the methodology through detailed Technical Notes

Technical notes

• TN on Evaluative Products
• TN on planning and conducting evaluations during COVID-19
• TN on evaluation approaches, methods and tools for decentralized evaluations EN | FR | ES
• TN on principles, norms and standards for evaluations EN | ES | FR
• TN on joint evaluation EN | FR | ES
• TN on stakeholder analysis  EN | FR | ES
• TN on evaluation matrix  EN | FR | ES
• TN on criteria and questions  EN | FR | ES
• TN on integrating gender in WFP evaluations EN | FR  | ES, Checklist EN | FR  | ES, Quick Guide EN | FR | ES
• TN on quality of evaluation recommendations EN | FR | SP
• TN on Decentralized Evaluation types
• TN on quality standards for impact evaluations

CEQAS is the 'how-to' for centralized evaluations.  DEQAS is the 'how-to' for decentralized evaluations.  IEQAS is the 'how-to' for impact evaluations.