56. Reiterates the need for the United Nations system to strengthen its efforts, in consultation with recipient countries, to ensure that the lessons learned from both monitoring and evaluation exercises are systematically applied to programming processes at the operational level and that evaluation criteria are built into all projects and programmes at their design stage, requests the Secretary-General to carry out an impartial and independent assessment of the extent to which the United Nations funds, programmes and agencies at the field level learn lessons from their evaluations and to formulate proposals on how to improve the feed-back mechanisms at the field level, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2003 in this regard;
56. 重申联合国系统需要同受援国协商，加紧努力确保从监测和评价工作中汲取的教训能够有系统地应用于业务一级的方案拟订进程，在项目和方案的设计阶段将评价标准纳入所有项目和方案，请秘书长进行公正和独立的评估，查明联合国系统各基金、方案和机构在外地一级从其评价中汲取的教训的程度，并就如何改进外地一级反馈机制拟订建议，请秘书长就此向经济及社会理事会2003年实质性会议提出报告；