The United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) with its headquarters in Turin, Italy, is the United Nations institution for system-wide knowledge management, learning and training for the staff of the United Nations system. The College is expected to play a pivotal role in contributing to UN reform, the development of a common culture based on effectiveness, expertise and continuous learning through the development, co-ordination and provision of crosscutting learning programmes that impact on all agencies and staff.
The General Assembly, in its resolution 72/303 emphasized the importance of evaluation and self-evaluation as managerial tools as well as the responsibility that the senior managers have to use evaluation and self-evaluation findings to improve performance and learning. In this regard, requested the Secretary General to strengthen in house capacity for self-evaluation, taking advantage of existing knowledge and expertise of the oversight bodies.
To this end, the Evaluation Learning Programme (ELP) of the UNSSC focuses on the application of technology and innovation in the area of evaluation, fosters peer learning and offers UN personnel a portfolio of courses and on-demand services on core skills and management competencies in evaluation.
The ELP is currently designing blended learning programmes covering the following thematic areas:
The ELP applies learner-centred design, case-based learning, and social learning approaches in its design of the programmes, to ensure that the learning content is highly relevant, and that UN managers are trained to ‘think like experts’.