This professional peer review provides an independent assessment of the functioning and quality of the evaluation function of UN-Habitat against the norms and standards of the United Nations Evaluation Group for conducting evaluations in the UN system. 

The review was conducted by a panel of distinguished senior evaluation experts between October 2011 and January 2012 with the purpose of enhancing knowledge about evaluation in UN-Habitat, improving evaluation policy and practice and supporting efforts by UN-Habitat to further integrate evaluation in the performance management of the organization.