Evaluation Action Plan of Nepal (2016-2020) Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation on Equity Focused and Gender Responsive National Evaluation Policies and Systems 23 -24 Nov. 2016 Melia Hotel, Hanoi Nepal Team Hon. Ananda Pokharel, NPFDEP Gokul Khadka, NPC Gana Pati Ojha, COE-Nepal Subarna Lal Shrestha, NES

Presentation Flow Current Situation National Evaluation Action Plan Enabling Environment Institutional Capacity Culture of Working together National Evaluation Action Plan Contribution to Global Evaluation Community Challenges

Existing Situation Enabling Environment Constitutional Provision: Clause 54 and 287 Evaluation Act: Draft Bill in the Table of OPMCM Reviewed the Draft Bill from Inclusive, Gender and Equity perspective Policy—sectoral policies but not evaluation policy as such M&E National Guidelines GG&MC in Parliament NPFDEP VOPEs—COE-N, NES, SOME

Institutional Capacity Capable of organising national and international events National Evaluation Networking meeting (Annual since 2013) Evaluation Conclave 2013 Global Evaluation Week 2015

National Workshop on EVALSDG and EvalAgenda

Culture of working together in place Parliamentarians Government VOPEs Academia Private Sector CSOs UN agencies Donors Support from Global Evaluation Community (IOCE/EvalPartners/GoS…)

National Evaluation Action Plan 2020 Enabling Environment Capacity Development Networking and Coordination Planned evaluation and SDG monitoring Documentation, Dissemination and Use of Evaluation

Evaluation Action Plan 2016-2020 Time Frame Enabling Environment Expedite the process to pass draft EFGR M&E bill  from the parliament June 2017 Formulate inclusive, EFGR evaluation policy with norms and standard Dec 2017 Institutional capacity Evaluation capacity assessment of government officials, independent evaluators and UN M&E officers and M&E focal point Develop standard training modules and university course content on equity focused and gender responsive evaluation Jan-Feb 2017 Make evaluation material available through repository centre/EVAL SDG knowledge portal 2017-2020 Individual capacity Train 500 evaluation commissioners and evaluators on equity focused and gender responsive evaluation Target : NPC- 200, UN- 200 and CoE-80 and others 2016-2020 Attend online courses on evaluation

Evaluation Action Plan 2016-2020 Time Frame HOW: Networking and Coordination Develop briefing papers on EvalSDG in Nepal’s context Translate briefing papers on EvalSDG, EvalGender+  Dec 2016 Increased understanding of EVAL SDG at all levels Annual Evaluation network meeting Create EvalSDG groups and networks according to thematic areas Establish collaboration with global SDG evaluation forums Establish networking and learning mechanism among national and sub-national levels 2017--2020 Planned Evaluation and SDG Monitoring Develop consolidated evaluation plan 2016-2020 NPC Internal: 20; External: 12 UN: TBD 2016-2020 Conduct 2 thematic meta-evaluation of all the evaluations commenced by Government and UN agencies Theme 1: Equity focused and gender responsive meta evaluation Theme 2: TBD 2017 and 2019

Evaluation Action Plan 2016-2020 Time Frame Documentation, Dissemination and Use Equity focused and gender responsive tools developed and used Review existing tools on 1) equity focused evaluation and 2) gender responsive evaluation and Develop integrated tool on equity focused and gender responsive evaluation methodology Pilot and tailor it to national context in meta evaluation Review SDG indicators through equity focused and gender responsive lens. Jan-May 2017 Dec 2017 Strengthen national statistical system Ongoing Collection of disaggregated data as per the need of SDG and other indicators: ·         Nepal living standards survey [NLSS]-2017 ·         Multiple indicator cluster survey [MICS]-2019 ·         Nepal demographic and health survey [NDHS]-2020 ·         National CENSUS-2021 2016-2020

Evaluation Action Plan 2016-2020 Follow up Lead Time Frame Next Steps : Evaluation Networking meeting NPC Dec 2016 Re conforming of commitment of Stakeholders Lobbing for Bill proceed to Parliament Facilitation of bill in Parliament (Orientation to Parliamentarians) Meeting with DPs Quarterly review meeting (16 meetings) VOPE NPFEPD June 2017 2017-2020

Contribution to Global Community Development of Inclusive, Equity and Gender Responsive evaluation methodology Development Management Response Index Development of Partnership Process: A process of working together

Challenges Translating plan into reality Use of evaluation Coordination Support from DPs Support from Global Evaluation Community

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