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16th Meeting of Senior Fellowships Officers of the United Nations System and Host Country Agencies
for fellows and supervisors to complete and return to CBIE. In the Philippines, Development
Cooperation for Asia Africa Pacific (DCAAP) had developed its own evaluation
mechanisms which measured both the quality and the quantity of the study programmes.
Whereas the national institutions in the Philippines needed to do more in terms of evaluating
the quality of training programmes. All in all, it appeared that training institutions
did have some evaluation mechanisms, each on its own terms. What the UN agencies
needed to do on a more regular basis was to request the training institutions or NPSAs to
evaluate the UN fellows and their training programmes.
Recommendation 5:
Utilization of Agencies’ Representatives as External Evaluators of Fellowships Programmes.
58. The fifth recommendation was about the engagement of the evaluators of other agencies
in the evaluation of the fellowships programmes. That recommendation had been
well received by all agencies. Using one another’s evaluation experts would have multiple
benefits: It would be cost-effective, would maximize profitability system-wide and would
draw on the valuable expertise of the sister agencies. However, there had been no indication
so far that agencies conducted any external evaluation during the reporting period.
Recommendation 6:
Basic Security in the Field.
59. That recommendation requested UN/DESA to contact the United Nations Security
Coordinator in order to seek the possibility of customizing for fellows and other trainees
the on-line course modules on Basic Security in the Field. DESA, indeed, brought
this issue to the attention of the appropriate authorities in the UN Department of
Safety and Security who advised that it was not possible to customize the modules
because security situations in the field and the means to protect the fellows could not
be customized, either. On the contrary, they were working on an advanced version as
a follow up to Basic Security in the Field. Shortly before the Meeting, the Department
of Safety and Security, in cooperation with the Inter-Agency Security Management Network
which consisted of DPKO, FAO, OHCHR, OHRM, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP,
WHO and the UN Secretariat as a whole, launched the self-administered learning course
“Advanced Security in the Field” . Both modules were mandatory for all fellows who traveled
to locations designated as Security Phase I or higher. Fellows whose own countries
hosted UNDP offices should go to take the courses at the UNDP locations before travel
whereas fellows originating from countries without UNDP offices should be provided
with CDs. DESA had obtained a number of CDs from the Department of Safety and
Security and distributed them to the participants at the Meeting.
60. On a related issue, Mr. Rudi drew the attention of the participants to the security of
participants in group training activities (conferences, workshops, seminars, etc) who,
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