Our Projects

2024/2025: MOPAN assessment of UNFPA

Despite a challenging operating context, UNFPA has delivered on the outputs of its strategic plan and transformed itself into a…

2025: Programme development for Bangladesh

King Zollinger supported the development of a new country programme for a bilateral development agency in Bangladesh. The support included process…

2025: Moderation of planning workshop for health and nutrition

Mandated by a public-private consortium, Urs Zollinger facilitated and moderated a two-day workshop in Zurich to plan the second phase of a…

2025: Moderation of strategy workshop on climate change action in South Asia

Mandated by a bilateral development agency, Urs Zollinger designed and moderated a strategy workshop in New Delhi on climate change action in South…

2024: Evaluation of UNFPA’s country programme for Serbia

Alison King directed the independent evaluation of the UNFPA country programme for Serbia with a team of national and emerging evaluators, focusing on…

2024: Facilitation of a foundation’s planning meeting

Urs Zollinger facilitated a foundation’s annual planning meeting, focusing on strategic positioning, business development and team communication.…

2024: Impact-evaluability assessment

Under the leadership of Urs Zollinger, a team of evaluation experts assessed the evaluability of the impact of an eco-industrial development programme…

Strategic outlook meeting

2023: Urs Zollinger supported and moderated this forward looking event in Basel

The meeting of the Systems Support & Health Promotion Unit (SHPU) of…

Evaluation of UNIDO project in Ukraine

2024: Urs Zollinger led the evaluation of the project "Industrial capacity-building, policy advice and diagnostics for the green recovery of Ukraine”

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Evaluation of an SDC vocational skills training project in Eritrea

2024: King Zollinger, represented by Urs Zollinger, was mandated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to conduct this evaluation

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Formative evaluation of the UNFPA Regional Programme for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

2024: Alison King led the formative evaluation of the UNFPA regional programme for Eastern Europe and Central Asia 2022-2025.

The evaluation’s…

Evaluation meta-synthesis

2023: Alison King produced a synthesis of IAEA evaluations

The meta-synthesis of evaluations of the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency…

Evaluation of UNFPA’s organizational resilience to crises

2023: Alison King contributed to this formative evaluation as the senior evaluator.
The objectives of this evaluation were to analyse the…

Evaluation of the Global Quality and Standards Programme (GQSP)

2023: Urs Zollinger led the final evaluation of this UNIDO programme

The objective of the GQSP is to strengthen the quality and standards compliance…

Synthesis Study of UNIDO Evaluations 2018-2022

2023: Urs Zollinger mandated to lead the synthesis study of 80 UNIDO project evaluation form 2018-2022

The purpose of the synthesis of evaluations…

Measure the impact of EC-supported activities on employment in Africa

2023: Urs Zollinger evaluated the ILO project STRENGHTEN2

Urs concluded that the project is highly relevant. The lack of jobs in Africa in…

Peer Review of the Evaluation Function of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg

2022: Urs Zollinger participated in this peer review together with senior panel members from ILO, UNESCO and ex-UNDP.

The objectives of the peer…

New Strategy of the Liechtenstein Development Service

2022: King Zollinger provided facilitation support for the new four-year LED strategy 2023-2026

The Liechtenstein Development Service (LED) engages…

Evaluation of the advocacy efforts of Medicus Mundi Switzerland

2022: Urs Zollinger led this evaluation.

Medicus Mundi Switzerland is an association of Swiss organisations active in international health…

Swiss Cooperation Programme for Zimbabwe and Zambia

2022: King Zollinger supported the development of the new Swiss bilateral cooperation programme for the two countries

Mandated by the Swiss Embassy…

Independent Evaluation of the UNIDO Medium-term Programme Framework (MTPF) 2018-2021

2022: Urs Zollinger was co-team leader of this strategic evaluation.

The MTPF is UNIDO’s most important strategic planning instrument. The…

Evaluation of UNFPA’s engagement in the reform of the UN development system

2021/22: Senior evaluator Alison King was part of a corporate evaluation to assess UNFPA’s engagement in the reform of the UN development system.

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SDG Lab in Geneva

2022: King Zollinger supported the SDG Lab in Geneva in designing it next three-year strategy

The strategy support to the SDG Lab (www.sdglab.ch)…

Evaluation training course for UN staff

2022: Mandated by the United Nations System Staff College in Turin, King Zollinger revised the training course for UN staff

The objective of the…

Global Eco-Industrial Parks Programme (GEIPP)

2021: Urs Zollinger led a three-person team in evaluating - at mid-point - UNIDO’s Global Eco-Industrial Parks Programme (GEIPP)

The objective of the…

Swiss Cooperation Programmes for Bangladesh, Mozambique and Kosovo.

2021: King Zollinger provided facilitation and drafting support for three new Swiss bilateral cooperation programmes

Mandated by the Swiss Embassies…

Review of UNFPA’s Alignment to its Transformative Results

2020/21: Alison King led a review of UNFPA’s alignment to its transformative results during the Strategic Plan 2018-21 cycle

– i.e., the extent to…

Evaluation of UNFPA’s Country Programme for Laos PDR

2020/21: Alison King led the evaluation of the UNFPA Laos country programme 2017-21

The evaluation of UNFPA’s country programme in Lao PDR, with…

Strengthening quality and standards compliance to increase export 2020/21

2020/21: Urs Zollinger led UNIDO evaluation of the Global Quality and Standards Programme (GQSP)

The main purpose of the independent mid-term…

Swiss Cooperation Programme for North Macedonia

2019/2020: King Zollinger supported the process of developing the next Swiss Cooperation Programme for North Macedonia (2021-2024)

King Zollinger…

Improving working conditions in the garment industry

2020: Urs Zollinger evaluated the ILO Better Work Global Programme

Urs concluded that Better Work is undoubtedly a success story. Based on the…

Swiss Cooperation Programme for Tanzania

2019/2020: King Zollinger supported the planning process for the new Swiss Cooperation Programme for Tanzania (2021-2024)

King Zollinger supported…

Baseline study and evaluability assessment of the Common Chapter of UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and UN Women

2019: Appointed by UNDP Alison King was the senior evaluation consultant for this study

The objective of the assessment was to help prepare for and…

Agro-industrial development in Ethiopia

2019/20: Urs Zollinger lead independent UNIDO evaluation of the Programme for Country Partnership (PCP) in Ethiopia (2015-2019)

In this evaluation…

Evaluation of UNFPA’s Uzbekistan Country Programme

2019: Alison King was leading the evaluation of UNFPA’s Uzbekistan Country Programme (2016-2020)

Alison conducted this evaluation with three national…

Evidence and data for gender equality

2019: Mandated by the UN Statistics Division, Alison King contributed to the project evaluation of Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE)

EDGE,…

Evaluation of UNFPA country programmes in Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan

2019: Alison King led the cluster evaluation of the UNFPA country programmes in Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan

Alison’s role included coordinating…

Swiss Cooperation Programme Ukraine (2020-23)

2019: King Zollinger supported the preparation of the new Swiss Cooperation Programme for Ukraine (2020-23)

King Zollinger supported the planning…

New cinfo strategy

2019: Urs Zollinger supported the elaboration of the cinfo Strategy 2022

Urs supported the review of the current cinfo strategy 2017-2020 leading to…

Public Private Partnerships to address minimum wages and child labour

2019: Urs Zollinger participated in the Independent Evaluation of ILO’s Public Private Partnerships.

As an evaluation team member, Urs contributed to…

SDC guidance for engagement with Swiss NGOs

2018-19: Mandated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) King Zollinger supported the process of developing the new SDC guidance…

Integrated approach to SRH and GBV

2018: Alison King evaluated the UNFPA Women and Girls First Programme in Myanmar.

The Women and Girls First Initiative is being implemented in the…

Quality Assessment of UN Evaluation Reports

2018: Contracted by OIOS-IED, King Zollinger assessed the quality of evaluation reports from across the UN Secretariat completed during the 2016-17…

Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Myanmar

2018: King Zollinger supported the process of preparing and elaborating the new Swiss Cooperation Strategies for Myanmar (2019-2023).

King Zollinger…

Follow-up to Evaluation Recommendations - ITC, UNHCR, ECLAC and ESCAP

2018: King Zollinger & Co. supported the OIOS triennial review of the implementation of evaluation recommendations.

The Inspection and Evaluation…

UNFPA’s engagement in highly-vulnerable contexts

2017: Alison King conducted a meta-analysis of UNFPA’s engagement in highly-vulnerable contexts.

The purpose of the meta-analysis was to generate…

Multi-stakeholder approach to accelerate inclusive and sustainable industrial development (SDG 9)

2017: Urs Zollinger lead the independent mid-term evaluation of UNIDO’s Programme for Country Partnership (PCP)

The mid-term evaluation was a…

Integrated approach to SDGs

2017: Alison King evaluated cross-sectoral cooperation within UNECE in support of sustainable development

The objective of the evaluation was to…

Peer Review of the Evaluation Function of the Council of Europe

2017: Urs Zollinger participated for the second time – after 2010 - in the peer review of the evaluation function of the Council of Europe (CoE).

The…

Partnership with donors

2017: Urs Zollinger participated in the evaluation of the UNIDO’s partnerships with donors.

The objective of the evaluation was to improve…

Swiss Cooperation Strategies for Albania (2018-2021) and Serbia (2018-2021)

2017: King Zollinger provided facilitation and drafting support for Swiss Cooperation Strategies for two countries in the Western Balkans

The support…

Swiss Cooperation Strategy for the Mekong Region (2018-2021)

2017: King Zollinger supported the process of preparing and elaborating the four-year Swiss Cooperation Strategy for the Mekong Region

This regional…

Quality Assessment of UN Evaluation Reports

2016: Contracted by OIOS-IED, King Zollinger assessed the quality of evaluation reports from across the UN Secretariat completed during the 2014-15…

UNICEF’s Child Friendly City (CFC) Initiative

2016: King Zollinger mandated by UNICEF Switzerland to revise and test the methodology to assess child friendliness of municipalities in Switzerland.

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UNFPA Nepal Country Programme Evaluation

2016: Alison King led a team of national evaluators to evaluate UNFPA’s Nepal country programme.

After having evaluated UNFPA’s Tajikistan country…

Emergency Preparedness and Response

2016: Alison King developed approach paper for the Clustered Country Programme Evaluation of UNFPA Engagement in Highly-vulnerable Contexts

In 2015,…

Evaluation of Civil Society Empowerment Projects

2016: Alison King led the evaluation of two civil society projects funded by the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF)

Alison King led the ex-post evaluation of…

Review of Evaluation Quality Assurance and Assessment System

2016: King Zollinger supported the review and revision of the UNFPA evaluation quality assurance and assessment system

King Zollinger supported the…

Country programme evaluation Tanzania

2016: Urs Zollinger led the evaluation of the UNIDO country programme in Tanzania (2011-2016)

The purpose of this evaluation was to provide…

Mid-term review of the Swiss Cooperation Strategy for the Horn of Africa

2016: King Zollinger facilitated the mid-term review (MTR) of the Swiss Cooperation Strategy for the Horn of Africa (2013-2017)

The objective of the…

Development of Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Mozambique

2016: King Zollinger facilitated the development of the new Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Mozambique (2017-2020)

King Zollinger supported the…

Support to new Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Macedonia

2016: King Zollinger supported the process of preparing and elaborating the next Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Macedonia (2017-2020)

King Zollinger…

Partnership review

2015/16: Urs Zollinger assessed the partnership between the IFAD’s Independent Office of Evaluation (IOE) and the Swiss Agency for Development…

Meta-analysis of UNFPA country programme evaluations

2015: Alison King conducted a study of UNFPA country programme evaluations from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region undertaken during 2013-15

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Thematic review of UNIDO interventions in the area of enterprise development and job creation, including for women and youth

2015: Urs Zollinger led UNIDO thematic review

The purpose of this review was to provide UNIDO with a synthesised view on the Organizations…

Peer Review of UNRWA’s Evaluation Function

2015: As Senior Advisor to the Panel, Urs Zollinger supported the Peer Review of UNRWA’s evaluation function

This Professional Peer Review of the…

Evaluation of UNICEF’s Child Friendly City (CFC) Initiative in Switzerland

2015: King Zollinger conducted this UNICEF evaluation

The focus of the evaluation was on the process leading to CFC certification. The purpose of…

Evaluation of employment and e-waste management project in Cambodia

2015: Urs Zollinger led UNIDO project evaluation.

The innovative public-private partnership between the Royal Government of Cambodia, KOICA, Samsung…

Longer-term Positioning of the UN Development System

2015: Alison King co-authored independent expert paper for ECOSOC.

As part of the ECOSOC dialogue on the longer-term positioning of the UN…

UNFPA Violence against Women Project Evaluation in Belarus

2015: Alison King led evaluation of a UNFPA project to end domestic violence against women in Belarus.

At the beginning of 2015, Alison King teamed…

Thematic Evaluation of the MDG Monitoring and Evaluation System

2014/2015: Alison King was team member of OIOS-IED Millennium Development Goal evaluation.

Alison King was an external team member of the OIOS-IED…

Elaboration of Swiss Cooperation Strategy Tanzania 2015-2018

2014: King Zollinger provided facilitation and drafting support for the new Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Tanzania.

The overall goal of the…

UNFPA Country Programme Evaluation Tajikistan

2014: Alison King led UNFPA Tajikistan country programme evaluation.

Together with two national consultants, Alison King conducted an independent…

Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining – New Strategy

2014: King Zollinger supported the development of the new GICHD medium-term strategy (2015-2018).

The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian…

Peer Review of the Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)

2014: Urs Zollinger supported the 2nd Professional Peer Review of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office.

The objective of the Professional Peer…

Evaluation of the UNIDO Medium-term Programme Framework

2014: Urs Zollinger was one of three team members for this strategic evaluation.

The main purpose of this evaluation was to provide UNIDO with…

Revision of Evaluation Handbook

2013/14: King Zollinger updated the OIOS-IED Evaluation Manual

In collaboration with IED, King Zollinger revised and updated the IED Inspection and…

Effectiveness of Mutual Accountability Mechanisms

2014: Alison King produced a policy brief on the effectiveness of mutual accountability mechanisms for the 2014 ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum

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Assessment of Strategic Planning Documents

2014: Contracted by the SDC Controlling Division, King Zollinger assessed SDC strategic planning documents from a “Managing for Development Results”…

Review of CGIAR Research Programs Governance and Management

2013/2014: King Zollinger provided advisory services to review team.

The review covered 16 CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs). Its objectives were to…

Independent Thematic Evaluation of UNIDO’s Public Private Partnerships

2013: Urs Zollinger was the Senior Evaluator and lead author.

The evaluation was conducted in order to provide guidance on business partnerships to…

Elaboration of Swiss Cooperation Strategy Serbia 2014-2017

2013: King Zollinger co-authored the Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Serbia, including its Results Framework.

Placing a particular emphasis on…

Strategy on South-South Cooperation

2013: Urs Zollinger supported the elaboration of UNIDO’s operational strategy to promote South-South and Triangular Cooperation.

Urs Zollinger…

Review of Evaluation Processes in the UN

2013: King Zollinger reviewed the evaluation processes of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

The purpose of the review was to enhance the…

Advisor to the Facilitator of the UN QCPR-Resolution

2012: King Zollinger supported Switzerland’s engagement in the UN General Assembly Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review.

King Zollinger supported…

Quality Assessment of UN Evaluation Reports

2012: King Zollinger was contracted by OIOS/IED to assess the quality of evaluation reports from across the UN Secretariat completed during 2010/2011…

Mid-term Evaluation of UNEP’s Medium-Term Strategy (MTS) 2010-2013

2012: Alison King was contracted as team member to undertake a mid-term evaluation of UNEP’s Medium-Term Strategy

The evaluation focused on four key…

Elaboration of Swiss Cooperation Strategy Macedonia 2013-2016

2012: King Zollinger co-authored the Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Macedonia, including its Results and Monitoring Frameworks

Within the overall…

Meta-Analysis of Project Evaluation Reports of UNEP, UNODC and OCHA

2012: Urs Zollinger was asked by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) to conduct a content analysis of 50 evaluation reports from…

Thematic Evaluation of UNIDO’s Contribution to Delivering as One United Nations

2011/2012: Alison King designed and conducted an evaluation of UNIDO’s Contribution to One UN mechanisms

The evaluation was conducted to inform UNIDO…

Independent Evaluation of Lessons Learned from Delivering as One (DaO)

2011/2012: As Senior Programme Evaluation Specialist, Urs Zollinger participated in this UN General Assembly mandated evaluation

This evaluation,…

Managing Core Contributions to Multilateral Organizations

2011: Alison King assessed SDC’s Core Contribution Management tool, an instrument for results-oriented planning and monitoring of un-earmarked…

Advisor UN System Coherence at FAO

2011: Alison King was contracted by the FAO UN Relations and Rome-based Collaboration Branch to provide policy and strategic advice on UN system…

Evaluation of UNIDO Country Programme Rwanda

2011: Alison King was recruited as international evaluation consultant by the UNIDO Evaluation Group

This independent country evaluation covers…

Development of FAO Strategy on Collaboration within the UN System

2010: FAO has contracted Alison King to elaborate a corporate strategy on collaboration within the UN system.

In 2010, the Food and Agriculture…

Evaluation of UNDP Contribution at the Regional Level to Development and Corporate Results

2010: Urs Zollinger was mandated by the UNDP Evaluation Office to co-lead a six-person team to evaluate UNDP’s regional programmes and presence.

This…

External Review of UNIFEM Sub-regional Strategies

2010: Alison King was asked to facilitate and participate in a review of 15 UNIFEM Sub-regional Strategies.

In 2008, the United Nations Development…

Results-oriented Monitoring of EC-funded Programmes/Projects

2008-2010: Alison King monitored EC-funded programmes and projects in Africa and recommended actions for improvement.

In 2010, Alison King continued…

Technical Assistance for Delivering as One United Nations (DaO)

2010: Alison King continued to provide technical assistance to SDC’s involvement in DaO

In 2010, Alison King continued to provide support to the…

Formulation of UN Global Compact Strategy

2010: Urs Zollinger facilitated an internal review of the 2008-2010 UN Global Compact Strategy and the formulation of a follow-up Strategy.

Urs…

Millennium Development Goals Progress Report of Switzerland

2010: Mandated by the Swiss Foreign Ministry, King Zollinger contributed to concept and drafting of the Swiss Federal Council 2010 MDG Progress…

Peer Review of the Evaluation Function of the Council of Europe

2010: Urs Zollinger was appointed as one of two experts to peer review the evaluation function of the Council of Europe.

In May 2010, the Council of…

Review of DPA Follow-up to Evaluation Recommendations

2010: Contracted by OIOS, Urs Zollinger conducted a triennial review of the implementation of evaluation recommendations.

In 2006, the Office of…

Managing Financial Contributions to Multilateral Organizations

2010: Urs Zollinger assisted the Swiss Government in rolling out a results-oriented planning and monitoring instrument.

In 2008/2009, Urs Zollinger…

Quality Assessment of OIOS Evaluation Reports

2009: Urs Zollinger was engaged by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) to assess the quality of its evaluation and inspection reports.

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Evaluation of UNIDO’s Field Mobility Policy

2009: UNIDO contracted Urs Zollinger to evaluate its Field Mobility Policy.

The process evaluation assesses the extent to which the UNIDO Field…

Evaluation of Strategic Partnership between UNIDO and UNDP

2009: Urs Zollinger was one of two international consultants contracted to evaluate the implementation of the Cooperation Agreement between UNIDO and…

Delivering as One United Nations

2009: The UN Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO) contracted Alison King to develop a standardized Delivering as One process Monitoring &…

SDC Annual Work Planning

2009: Urs Zollinger facilitated the 2009 mid-term review and 2010 work planning of the SDC Global Institutions Division.

In 2009, the Division…

Advising the Peer Panel Review of the United Nations Evaluation Function

2009: Urs Zollinger is co-author of the Peer Review Report on the Evaluation Function of the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the United…

Evaluating UN Reforms at Country Level

2007/2008: Alison King was part of an international consultant team charged with assessing the evaluability of UN reforms at country level.

In…

Assessing Multilateral Effectiveness at Country Level

2004-2008: King Zollinger supported the Annual MOPAN Survey of multilateral partnership behaviour. The Multilateral Organisations Performance…

Demonstrating Local-level Solidarity with Developing Countries

2008: At the request of the Swiss Government, King Zollinger elaborated a series of good examples of local-level international solidarity.

In…

Ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Host Countries

2008: King Zollinger supported the efforts of UNICEF Switzerland to reinforce the inter-governmental debate on the problem of FGM in host countries.

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Making the case for Multilateral Development Cooperation

2008: In collaboration with UNICEF Switzerland, King Zollinger developed arguments in support of a strong Swiss engagement in international…

Facilitating a Work Planning Process

2008: Urs Zollinger facilitated the 2008 annual review and 2009 work planning of the SDC Global Institutions Division.

The Division responsible for…

Designing a Logical Framework Matrix (Logframe)

2008: Urs Zollinger facilitated the development of a logframe matrix for the Government of Switzerland Strategy for the Protection of Civilians in…