Briefing Paper: Beyond monitoring: Evaluation for a resilient recovery towards the SDGs
Strengthening countries’ performance on the SDGs increases their resilience to future shocks. This can be better achieved through the entrenchment of evaluation systems in organisational practice for the systematic conduct of SDG evaluations. Governments are...
Briefing Paper 13 – The climate crisis: four ways evaluations can strengthen policymaking
13th Briefing Paper: The climate crisis: four ways evaluations can strengthen policy-making The handling of the COVID-19 crisis has shown that governments can take prompt evidence-based actions to protect people, livelihoods and the economy. The political will to...
Briefing Paper 12 – Evaluating sustainable development: how the 2030 Agenda can help
12th Briefing paper: Evaluating sustainable development: how the 2030 Agenda can help As countries increasingly commit to sustainable development pathways, they need approaches that assess the sustainability dimension of national policies and interventions, including...
Briefing Paper 11 – From monitoring goals to systems-informed evaluation: insights from SDG14
11th Briefing Paper: From monitoring goals to systems-informed evaluation: insights from SDG14 If the world is going to make significant progress towards achieving theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, development actors will need to think and work in new...
Briefing Paper 10 – Equity-focused, gender-responsive evidence: a blind spot in VNR reporting
10th Briefing Equity-focused, gender-responsive evidence: a blind spot in VNR reporting In 2018, 46 countries expressed their commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by voluntarily presenting national reviews of their progress on implementing the...
Briefing Paper 9 – Embedding evaluation in national plans and policies to foster transformative development
9th Briefing paper: Embedding evaluation in national plans and polices to foster transformative development This briefing place emphasis on voluntary national reviews (VNRs), VNRs are an important tool, rolled out globally, for demonstrating how far countries are...
Briefing Paper 8 – VNR reporting needs evaluation: a call for global guidance and national action
8th Briefing paper: VNR Reporting needs evaluation: a call for global guidance and national action This briefing analyses 43 ‘Voluntary National Reviews’ (VNRs) of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Extending a 2016 analysis, it finds that...
Briefing Paper 7 – The 2030 Agenda and evaluation: opportunities and challenges for parliamentarians
7th Briefing paper: The 2030 Agenda and evaluation: opportunities and challenges for parliamentarians The seventh briefing paper focuses on ensuring the 17 Goals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are meaningfully translated into national policies and...
Briefing Paper 6 – Evaluation: a missed opportunity in the SDGs’ first set of Voluntary National Reviews
6th Briefing Paper: Evaluation: a missed opportunity in the SDGs’ first set of Voluntary National Reviews At the 2016 UN High Level Political Forum, 22 countries presented Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) — status reports on their efforts to implement national-level...
Briefing Paper 5 – Developing national evaluation capacities in the sustainable development era: four key challenges
5th Briefing paper: Developing National Evaluation Capacity (NEC) in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) era and interrelated challenges The challenges affect both the supply of sound evaluations for development plans and also the demand for their relevant and...
Briefing Paper 4 – Realising the SDGs by reflecting on the way(s) we reason, plan and act: the importance of evaluative thinking
4th Briefing paper: Realising the SDGs by reflecting on the way(s) we reason, plan, and act: the importance of evaluative thinking This briefing paper focuses on the importance of evaluative thinking for effective follow-up and review frameworks and...
Briefing Paper 3 – Five considerations for national evaluation agendas informed by the SDGs
3rd Briefing paper: Five considerations for national evaluation agendas informed by the SDGs This Briefing emphasizes the importance of taking into consideration the inter-connected nature of the sustainable development goals. It summarizes five lessons for evaluation...
Briefing Paper 2 – Counting critically: SDG ‘follow-up and review’ needs interlinked indicators, monitoring and evaluation
2nd Briefing paper: Counting critically: SDG ‘follow-up and review’ needs interlinked indicators, monitoring and evaluation The second briefing paper states that global indicators carry the risk of masking sub-national and thematic variations; and that...
Briefing Paper 1 – Evaluation: a crucial ingredient for SDG success
1st Briefing paper: Evaluation a crucial ingredient for SDG success The first briefing paper argues that, to be useful to policy makers and citizens, national review processes must incorporate country-led...