Workshop 3: National framework for politicians and policy makers List of participants. A different prospective and experiences from different regions Thanks to all participants for active involvement and fruitful discussion Technical Seminar Evaluating SDGs with an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens 16 March 2016

Speakers: Arild Hauge, UNDP; Ada Ocampo UNICEF Panelists: Hon. Kabir Hashim Sri Lanka Hon. Susan Musyoka, Kenya Hon. Samuel Hoyos, Colombia Hon. Pol Ham, Cambodia Hon. Ananda Pokharel, Nepal Hon, Olfa Cherif, Tunisia Hon. Natalia Nikitenko, Kyrgyzstan Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation to promote policy makers and evaluation professionals working together for creation of enabling environment for evaluation

1. Parliamentarians promoting SDG agenda Question 1. How can parliamentarians\ Parliaments support governments to demonstrate accountability on the SDGs? What are the key messages to Governments and fellow parliamentarians? Two dimensions of the discussion: 1. Parliamentarians promoting SDG agenda 2. Promoting monitoring and evaluation nationally and globally We mean that SDGs are obviously global agenda shared by national governments and parliaments… Can we speak about accountability on SDG before making sure it’s in the parliamentary agenda.. Do Mps know about SDG? Are they 100 percent involved? It’s not always a case.. It depends on the region, own experience, political construction. The second question is about how strong M and E is in parliaments? Is there a national systems, policies, tools for Parliaments to support governments accountability on SDG? SDG should be understood, shared, owned by the key decision makers – parliaments….

1. Promoting SDG agenda To make sure that national strategies and policies are in line and include SDGs To make sure that SDGs are reflected in the Government\Ministries reports to the Parliament Through the Parliamentary Committees\Commissions oversight function to provide accountability of governments\ministries on SDG To facilitate collaboration with other stakeholders on accountability on the SDGs To rise SDG agenda

2. Promoting monitoring and evaluation nationally and globally MPs work as conduit between government and people, so in accountability of the parliament to the PEOPLE and the government to the parliament M&E should be universal tool To demand and support legislation on Monitoring and Evaluation and National M&E Policies (exmp. Amendments on M&E, Gender-responsive budget) To facilitate capacity building of M&E systems nationally

To demand and support capacity building for M&E within the Parliaments Parliaments should empower oversight units (Committees\Commissions\M&E units) to promote Evaluation Reports to the decision makers Questions put in the agenda: Budgets for M&E Independence of M&E

2. What is the role of parliamentarians to strengthen Equity-focus and Gender-responsive evaluation for SDGs? To work with VOPEs, civil society, people, other stakeholders on building capacity Gender-responsive budgets (exmp. Colombia, Mexico, Tunisia) Gender and human rights expertise of all amendments in the parliament (exmp Kyrgyzstan) To promote oversight Committees/Commissions to demand Gender- and Equity focused documents and disaggregated data To rise the agenda of Equity-focused and Gender –responsive evaluation and built it in the National Policies and legislation

Thank you for the attention!!! Questions to the Panelists?