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...
EVALSDGs Insight #11: Participatory evaluation as an approach to evaluating the implementation of Agenda 2030: The case of Finland
Finland is committed to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In accordance with Finnish Government policy, an evaluation of Finland’s national sustainable development policy, called PATH2030, was commissioned in 2019. The evaluation examined the...
HLPF 2021 Side Event: Evaluation – an effective path towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda
<<< Recording now available! >>> EVALSDGs, UNICEF, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, DEval, IIED and IDEAS jointly organized a side event to the 2021 High-Level Political Forum, entitled Evaluation – an effective path towards the...
EVALSDGs 2021 gLOCAL webinar on “Transforming M&E for Achieving the SDGs: Gender Integration”
On June 4th 2021, EVALSDGs Guidance Group and EvalGender+ hosted a webinar at the 2021 gLOCAL Evaluation Week. The webinar was based on the most recently published EI: Transforming M&E for Achieving the SDGs. Watch the recording here: Download the EVALSDGs Insight...
EVALSDGs Insight Dialogue #3: Transforming M&E for Achieving the SDGs: Gender Integration
EvalGender+ and EVALSDGs held the third Evaluation Insight Dialogue on 6 May 2021. The recording is now available, watch it below. This third EI Dialogue introduced the most recently published EI: Transforming M&E for Achieving the SDGs; which concerns gender...
EVALSDGs Insight #10: Transforming M&E for Achieving the SDGs
The EVALSDGs Guidance Working Group has released EVALSDGs Insight #10, concerning a long-standing issue: gender inequality and the degree to which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can assure equality and equity among peoples. Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)...
EVALSDGs Insight Dialogue #2: Using Big Data to Strengthen SDG Evaluations: Opportunities and Challenges
On 3 September 2020, EVALSDGs and EvalPartners hosted Insight Dialogue #2 on “Using Big Data to Strengthen SDG Evaluations: Opportunities and Challenges”. This Dialogue introduced the most recently published EVALSDGs Insights: EVALSDGs Insight 8:...
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...
Training: Recovering from COVID-19 – Embedding Evaluation in VNRs
UNICEF’s Evaluation Office in partnership with UNECA and CLEAR-AA is conducting a modular online training on “Recovering from COVID-19 – Embedding Evaluation in VNRs”. The training aims to support countries to embed evaluation in their 2021 Voluntary...
HLPF 2020 Side Event: Strengthening National Capacities for the World We Want: Embedding Evaluation in VNRs
On 14 July 2020, UNICEF, UNECA and UNITAR jointly organized a side event to the HLPF on the theme “Strengthening National Capacities for the World We Want: Embedding Evaluation in Voluntary National Reviews“. The event showcased and shared experiences on...