Seventh External Review of the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) (2022): Management response
Overview
This seventh external review of TDR, conducted in 2022 and covering the period 2018-2021, was requested by the Joint Coordinating Board. External reviews of TDR take place every five to seven years. The previous review, the sixth, took place in 2016. The current review looks at the early implementation of TDR’s current strategy noting that the last two years were against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic. The review was based on consideration of a wide range of programme and other documents and interviews with more than 100 key informants. In addition to considering the sixth TDR review, the current review considered a number of other reviews and evaluations including evaluations of HRP and AHPSR.
TDR developed a management response that was submitted to the 45th session of the Joint Coordinating Board in June 2022.