Opportunities in evaluating Equitable and Sustainable Development in the context of SDGs Marco Segone Director, UN Women Independent Evaluation Office Chair, United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Co-chair, EvalPartners

Our journey together in the next 30’ 1.The world we have vs the world we want 2.Equitable development: what, why, how and … a good news! 3.SDGs as opportunities and challenges for the evaluation community 4.The best way forward …

The world we have vs the world we want

A massive concentration of wealth The richest 1% of the population owns 40% of the world’s wealth, while the poorest 50% of the population owns only 1% of the world’s wealth The world’s three richest people own wealth equivalent to the combined GDP of the world’s poorest 48 countries.

Development is unfinished business 925 m people are still malnourished 1 in 3 women will be beaten, raped, abused, or mutilated in their lifetimes

Equitable development for equitable societies

Final aim All rights for all human beings everywhere at any time, by prioritizing the most deprived

Equity: a strategy to achieve equality Different treatment for different situation … … to ensure everybody can enjoy the same rights

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Source:, Rob Mcqueary, 2013 … TO THIS

Good news! Several countries recognize the importance of equitable development International development community too

SDGs

2030 Agenda/SDGs 1.Inclusive and participatory process (and ownership) 2.Universal 3.Comprehensive and integrated People, prosperity, planet, peace, partnership

2030 Agenda/SDGs

4. No one left behind!

2030 Agenda/SDGs

5. Follow-up and review mechanism A robust, effective, inclusive and transparent follow-up and review framework, operating at the national, regional and global levels

Principles voluntary and country-owned open, inclusive and transparent, and support the participation of all people and all stakeholders build on existing platforms and processes, avoid duplication, respond to national circumstances rigorous and based on evidence, informed by data which is timely, reliable and disaggregated

Follow-up and review mechanism informed by country-led evaluations calls for strengthening national evaluation capacity

The challenge for the evaluation community

No one left behind!

How to evaluate equitable development interventions? What are the evaluation questions to assess interventions are relevant and are having an impact in decreasing inequity and in achieving results for the worst-off groups? What are the methodological, political, social and financial implications in designing, conducting, managing and using evaluations responsive to social equity and gender equality? How to strengthen the capacities of Governments, CSOs and Parliamentarians to evaluate the effect of interventions on equitable outcomes for marginalized populations?

The power of equity- focused and gender- responsive evaluation

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An assessment made of the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of interventions on equitable development results, with a specific focus on gender equality and women empowerment. Looks at structural bottlenecks and power relationships Empowerment process What is Equity focused and Gender responsive evaluation?

Would you recommend this policy to be continued?

Three Challenges SDGs with an equity and gender lens? Complexity? Strengthen NEC?

The best way forward …

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2015 declared International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear)

a Global Initiative of Coordinated Local Action advocate and promote demand and use of evaluation in evidence-based policy making position evaluation in the policy arena

Why 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) National development policies should be informed by evidence generated by country-led evaluation systems, rather than donor-led ones

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From Ministers in developed countries …

… and in emerging and developing countries ……

… to young evaluators.

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Evaluation: an agent of change for the world we want