Details
- Publication date
- 1 December 2023
- Author
- Directorate-General for International Partnerships
Description
This report is the result of an independent assessment of the performance of the European Union (EU) cooperation with the United Nations from 2014 until the end of 2020.
The evaluation report provides an account of the main findings, conclusions and lessons learnt, and recommendations for the future of EU cooperation with the United Nations.
The report has been overseen by an EU Inter-service Steering Group composed of European Commission DGs and the European External Action Service, and a UN Reference Group, chaired by the UN Office in Brussels and composed of Heads of UN agencies in Brussels.
The evaluation is structured around six major blocks:
- EU influence and visibility: What the EU wants from the UN System
- Reinforced Multilateralism: what the EU wants for the UN
- Results across thematic areas (Green Deal, digitalisation, sustainable economic, human and social development, migration and forced displacement)
- EU-UN cooperation for efficient delivery
- UN Delivering as One
- Value added
A total of 16 case studies were conducted to provide specific examples of the EU-UN cooperation across the five thematic areas, different geographies, a variety of UN entities, EU services in charge, and of different types of activities as well as four comparative analyses assessing the added value of EU-UN cooperation to other non-UN entities operating within the same thematic area.
More than 375 stakeholders were interviewed, including representatives from the EU services at Headquarters and in EU Delegations, from UN headquarters, the UN office in Brussels, UNRC offices and representation offices of UN entities, EU MS, intergovernmental organisations, national authorities, think tanks, and academia. A workshop with 22 EU Members States was organised in New York.
Two online surveys were conducted, one addressed to EU Commission, European External Action Service and European Delegation staff (155 respondents); and one targeting UN staff in Headquarters, Brussels and UN Country Teams (96 respondents).
The evaluation reviewed more than 700 documents from the EU, the UN, and other instances, including grey literature from research institutions and think tanks working on the EU-UN cooperation.
