richard.jones@undp.org

Richard Jones is a senior Evaluation Advisor at IEO UNDP and has taken the lead in support to Decentralised evaluation since joining IEO in 2016. This has included a revision of the UNDP evaluation quality assessment tool, revised evaluation guidelines for UNDP launched in 2019, as well as capacity building of UNDP evaluation staff. Richard has also taken the lead in a number of recent UNDP country programme evaluations including evaluation of the work of UNDP in Eswatini, Uganda and Zimbabwe (2019), Sierra Leone (2018) and the Philippines (2017). During his 18 years in development he has also worked in various project implementation and management positions across a number of bilateral, multilateral and NGO organizations, including most recently as a technical advisor in local governance, planning and M&E for DANIDA in Vietnam (2010 to 2014) and DfID in Tanzania (2014 to 2016).