The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Measuring our impact
With our focus on practical solutions, UNOPS is committed to expanding the implementation capacity of our partners to advance sustainable development and help shape a future where people and the planet can thrive.
A word from our Executive Director Jorge Moreira da Silva
From project design to implementation, we aspire to create lasting, positive change in people’s lives and the institutions that serve them – supporting our partners to achieve their objectives as well as broader development goals.
Under UNOPS Strategic Plan (2026-2029), we’re sharpening the way we measure our impact. We’re building a systematic approach that complements how we gauge the delivery of project ‘outputs’, with a strong focus on project ‘outcomes’.
Through a series of implementation goals, impact principles, and management principles, our results framework (2026-2029) will help us track the achievement of key priorities within our Strategic Plan, and reinforces transparency and accountability around the impact of our work.
Ultimately, the framework will enable us to better measure the true impact of our work on the people we serve – as we work to accelerate sustainable development, bridge implementation gaps, and ensure we leave no one behind.
UNOPS Strategic Plan charts a path for us to scale up and speed up impact through practical solutions. We commit to collaborate and manage for impact -- looking beyond our immediate deliverables – outputs – to truly focus on the outcomes for people.
Impact principles
Under our results framework, we’ve set out nine principles that will help us manage impact throughout the life cycle of relevant projects and programmes.
These principles will guide project design for effective implementation – to achieve UN objectives, benefit people and institutions, and advance partnerships and solutions.
Our nine impact principles are complemented by management and implementation principles that will ensure we continue to optimize the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of UNOPS implementation services and management capacity – to scale up and speed up our contributions at the global, regional and country levels.
Read more about our results framework in UNOPS Strategic Plan (2026-2029).
