UNDCS FINAL EVALUATION
This Executive Summary presents the findings of an independent evaluation of the United Nations Development Cooperation Strategy (UNDCS) for 2016-2020. The evaluation was commissioned by the UN Country Team (UNCT) in Turkey, with oversight provided by the Evaluation Steering Committee (ESC), which functions as the decision-making organ for the UNDCS evaluation. The evaluation was conducted between January and May 2020 by a team of three independent consultants contracted by the Institute for Development Impact (I4DI), an independent evaluation service provider. The UNDCS was built around four pillars of cooperation: inclusive growth and sustainable development, democratic governance and human rights, gender and women's empowerment, and migration and international protection. The evaluation focused on the outcomes of the activities of the UN agencies operating in Turkey, their implementations and their achievements. In scope, it covers the totality of the 2016- 2020 UNDCS portfolio of programmes from January 2016 to the time when the evaluation field work was conducted in February-March 2020.