Module 3 Global Evaluation Agenda 2016-2020 Technical Assistance on Evaluating SDGs: Leave No One Behind EvalGender+ Network together with UN Women, UNEG and EvalPartners

Outline Introduction EvalVision 2020 Global evaluation agenda 2016-2020

Overall challenge How can the global evaluation community contribute to ensuring that evaluation will play a key role in shaping and contributing to the implementation of international, regional and national policies and programmes to achieve sustainable and equitable development … i.e. the SDGs?

How did we do it? Process - Phase 1 A global on-line consultation kicked-off with a global live webinar in late 2014, followed by 8-weeks of on-line discussion (2 weeks for each of the 4 major questions) Additional web-based or face-to-face consultations organized by different stakeholders with their own constituencies. Process - Phase 2 Inputs generated at many of the 85 EvalYear events around the world during 2015, along with the Evaluation Torch Official launch of the Global Evaluation Agenda during the Global Evaluation Week here in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Evaluation cannot be a “VALUE NEUTRAL” tool for management The members of EvalPartners are united by a shared commitment to promoting and supporting equitable human development. Our alliance promotes evaluation that is based on values of equity, gender equality, and social justice and on shared principles of partnership, innovation, inclusivity, and human rights. The consultation for EvalAgenda2020 has shown that evaluation, in order to reach its fullest potential, must combine both the most effective and accepted techniques and the values that motivate why we use those techniques

Evaluation has not reached yet its full potential Despite its success and ready acceptance in many parts of the world, evaluation has not yet been embraced as widely as it should be. However, the fact that evaluation is not yet fully embraced on a global scale does not discourage us from our commitment to its potential. Quite the contrary, this gap between potential value and current acceptance motivates us to work harder, both to continue to improve the field of evaluation and to share its usefulness with current and new audiences.

EvalVision 2020 We all dream of a much better world. We dream of a changed society. And we dream of a transformed global community founded on a culture of transparency, accountability, and common good. It is a very explicit dream that recognizes the need to carry on and advance the causes laid down by the eight original Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while we vigorously address the present and future challenges put forward by the 17 SDGs, which envisage a world of universal respect for human rights, equality and nondiscrimination. The overriding message of the SDGs is “to leave no one behind”, to ensure “targets are met for all nations and peoples and for all segments of society”.

EvalVision 2020 Our vision for 2020 is that evaluation is an integral part of all efforts by governments, civil society, and the private sector to improve the lives and conditions of their fellow citizens.

EvalVision 2020 I am building a temple I am cutting rocks

A systematic approach …

Global Evaluation Agenda 2016-2020 The framework includes the following sections: Strengthening an enabling environment for evaluation.   Strengthening institutional capacities of VOPEs and Civil Society.  Strengthening capacities of individual evaluators. Strengthening the inter-linkages among enabling environment, institutional capacities, and individual evaluator capacities. What other good efforts would advance and promote evaluation globally but aren’t covered under the first four topics?

Expand partnerships Evaluation policies Evaluation quality Credentialing Organizational development of VOPEs Individual Capacity Development Expand partnerships Evaluation policies Evaluation quality

Global Evaluation Agenda Enabling environment: All sectors of society understand and appreciate the value of evaluation Evaluation is explicitly required or encouraged in national evaluation policies and other legal instruments Sufficient resources are allocated for evaluation, at all levels There are credible, accessible data systems and repositories for evaluation findings Stakeholders are eager to receive and utilize evaluation information Evaluation receives due recognition as a profession The ownership of governmental evaluations rests with national governments based on their needs and priorities

Global Evaluation Agenda Institutional capacities: A sufficient number of relevant institutions, including but not limited to Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs); Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), academia and institutions that generate and share relevant data exist to develop and support evaluators and evaluation These institutions are capable of appreciating and facilitating quality evaluations These institutions are skilled at collaborating with other relevant and involved institutions

Global Evaluation Agenda Institutional capacities, cont.: These institutions are able to resource quality data generation and evaluations as required, make information readily accessible and are ready to follow-up on evaluation findings and recommendations These institutions are able to continually evolve and develop as the evaluation field advances Academic institutions have the capacity to run professional courses in evaluation

Global Evaluation Agenda Individual Capacity Development: There is a sufficient number of evaluators for a given location and subject area These evaluators come from a diversity of relevant disciplines These evaluators are well-trained in a wide variety of accepted evaluation principles, theories, methods and approaches These evaluators have integrated the values discussed above and are culturally sensitive These evaluators continually learn and improve their capabilities

Global Evaluation Agenda Inter-Linkages: Governments, parliamentarians, VOPEs, the United Nations, foundations, private sector and other interested groups dedicate resources to joint ventures in the conduct of evaluations, in innovation in the field of evaluation and evaluation capacity building A common language and/or set of terms exists to discuss evaluation Multiple partners in evaluation regularly attend national and international learning opportunities The “No one left behind” principal stated in the SDGs is embedded as a key value that crosses across three building blocks of evaluation system – enabling environment, institutional capacities and individual evaluator capacities.

Resources Link to the EvalAgenda2020 http://mymande.org/evalyear/shaping_the_2016_2020_ global_evaluation_agenda IOCE Forum http://forum.ioce.net/forum/global- evaluation-agenda-2016-2020

What “bite” of the EvalApple will be yours?

Thank you for attention For more information, please contact: Marco Segone, Director, Independent Evaluation Office -UN Women, Co-chair - EvalGender+, Chair – United Nations Evaluation Group marco.segone@unwomen.org Florencia Tateossian, Evaluation Specialist – UN Women florencia.tateossian@unwomen.org Asela Kalugampitiya, EvalPartners Executive Coordinator, coordinator@evalpartners.org