Summary Findings and Recommendations of Recent UNESCO Evaluations

This Word document compiles the findings and recommendations of evaluations carried out on activities and programs of UNESCO's Major Programs II (Natural Sciences) and III during the 2004 – 2005 biennium, as presented to UNESCO’s Executive Board last year. The programs included are:

* The Environment and Development in Coastal and Small Islands (CSI) Platform

* UNESCO’s Contributions to the World Solar Programme 1996-2005

* The Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program

* Information Services in Social and Human Sciences

* “Cities: Management of Social and Environmental Transformations” MOST Project

* UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme (2002-2003)

* UNESCO─IUGS International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP)

* Small Historical Coastal Cities (SHCC)

* International Hydrological Programme (IHP-V) 1996-2001

Full versions of the evaluations are available from UNESCO on request.