The Technology Executive Committee (TEC) was mandated to evaluate the Poznan
strategic programme on technology transfer with the aim of enhancing the effectiveness of
the Technology Mechanism. The TEC has prepared this document, its interim report on this
evaluation, in response to a mandate given to it by the Subsidiary Body for Implementation
(SBI) at its forty-first session. This document contains information on the progress of work
of the TEC in the evaluation in the first half of 2015 and the preliminary outcomes of this
evaluation. It also contains, in the annex, the terms of reference for the evaluation. The
TEC will provide a final report on the evaluation of the Poznan strategic programme to the
Conference of the Parties, at its twenty-first session, through SBI 43. The SBI is invited to
take note of this interim report with a view to considering a final report on the evaluation of
the Poznan strategic programme at SBI 43.