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Evaluation of cluster I conflict-specific Special Political Missions (IED-25-003)
Overview
The Office of Internal Oversight Services assessed the relevance, effectiveness and coherence of the contributions of seven cluster I SPMs to mitigate the risk of violent conflict. The evaluation covered the period from 2021 to 2024.
SPMs were uniquely positioned to convene stakeholders and facilitate dialogue in large part due to their perceived comparative advantages of legitimacy, credibility, and impartiality. This positioning enabled them to employ a diverse range of modalities to engage with a broad spectrum of stakeholders from parties to the conflict to geopolitical actors, intergovernmental bodies, and civil society. The nature of the conflicts cluster I SPMs addressed meant that they were at times faced with evolving mandates and changes in their operating environments; the lack of clear strategic direction in most SPMs at times hampered their ability to appropriately respond to these shifts.
The broader efforts of the SPMs to mitigate the risk of violent conflict yielded mixed results, reflecting the inherent complexity of the conflicts they addressed and the limits of their influence in the face of growing trends in geopolitical polarization and regionalization of conflicts. The Yemen truce brokered by OSESG-Yemen was one of the few examples of significant achievements in this regard, and the mission in Cyprus was illustrative of successful efforts to build trust between the parties to the conflict under the Good Offices of the Secretary-General.
Report Details
| Year Published | |
| Type | |
| Theme/s | |
| Joint | No |
| Partner/s | N/A |
| SDG/s | |
| Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
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Evaluation of cluster I conflict-specific Special Political Missions (IED-25-003)
