JIU Interns Win at Geneva Evaluation Network Competition

On 23 June 2015, the Geneva Evaluation Network (GEN), a platform for the burgeoning evaluation community in Geneva that brings together practitioners, instructors and the interested public, co-organized the first social event dedicated to evaluation interns of the United Nations system and other international organizations. Hosted at the premises of the Graduate Institute Geneva, the event drew together around twenty interns in total, from the evaluation units at ILO and WIPO as well as from the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU). Six interns currently working at the JIU participated in three different teams in an evaluation design competition with around twenty participants in total. Kalrav Acharya and Nicolas Gunkel won the contest with their evaluation strategy for a project called “We Love Reading” (WLR) – a non-profit initiative that sets up reading centres in refugee camps to instil the love of reading in children and adults. The team composed of Samuel Klarich and Xiaofan Wei came in as a close second winner. Srishti Kumar and Inge Meesak scored points for their engaging presentation and the methodological rigour of their evaluation design. We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all JIU interns who successfully took part in the competition.