WHAT IS

UNICEF?
• Official name: United Nations
Children’s Fund

• Headquarters: in New York, the

U.S.

• Founded: on December 11th, 1946

• Parent Organization: United

Nation

• Countries and territories: 190

Promoting the rights and
wellbeing of every child,
in everything we do.
WHAT DID
THEY DO?
Humanitarian Health HIV/AIDS
Action

Gender Equity Nutrition Water,Sanitation,

and Hygine
Social Inclusion Child Protection Education
 TO WHAT
EXTEND IS THE
UNICEF
PUBLIC?
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 DIMENSIONAL
APPROACH

OWNERSHIP

FUNDING

CONTROL

Rainey, H.G. (2014). Understanding and managing public

organizations. Fifth Edition. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
FUNDING
SO IS IT
PUBLIC
OR NOT?
WHAT ABOUT ITS
ADMINISTRATIVE
VALUES?
• Sigma, Theta, Lambda: Ideal types
• Public organizations: mix of two or three values
• Salient administrative value

Administrative values (Hood, 1991)

Theta: honesty, accountability, transparency
• Salient administrative value in UNICEF’s management
• Transparency portal: funds allocation
Theta: honesty, accountability, transparency
• Transparency portal: digital library
 Sigma: frugality, parsimony
• Scarce and hardly accessible resources
• Strategic Plan 2018-2021: result-oriented, efficient and effective
management
 Lambda: reliability, robustness & adaptability

• UNICEF’s concerns: availability of funds and support (governments,

volunteers, partners)
• Improve fundraising
• Improve governmental and volunteer support base
• Improve its staff’s well-being and security
 IS UNICEF’S
PERFORMANCE
MEASURED OR
EVALUATED?
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 Evaluation process
• Large amount of evaluations
• Analyze the achievement
• Main goal
• Methods
• Quality control
• GEROS
• Evaluation policy
• Checks and balances
• Limitation