WHY MONITOR AND EVALUATE SDGS WHY MONITOR AND EVALUATE SDGS? THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT AND M&E EXPERTS Ngonidzaishe Marimo

Why Monitor SDGs: Outline Roles of Different Stakeholders Shift in approach what are the possibilities

Why Monitor and Evaluate SDGs SDGs provide a morale obligation by states to provide evidence to their citizens that no-one is being left behind The complex nature of SDGs requires continued tracking to determine progress made and the factors that need redress though policy, legislation, administration or programme reorientation The multi-stakeholder nature of SDGs and its requirements for partnerships means a greater demand for evidence based reporting on performance to maintain trust in the partnerships SDGs are designed as a forward looking with evidence based evaluations and monitoring helping to re-engineer programmes http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/malaria-mdg-target/en/ http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/19/sustainable-development-goals-united-nations

Stakeholders SDGs Parliament Development Partners Civil Society Ordinary citizens Evaluators Government

Parliament To ensure that Equity Focused and Gender Responsive (EFGR) evaluation become part of legislation, oversight and policy decisions To advocate for shift from traditional M&E to EFGR M&E for Zimbabwe’s development blue print To advocate for and facilitate the strengthening of the capacity of key public institutions to provide inclusive M&E strategies To promote EFGR evidence based engagement with the public To advocate for government to budget adequately for EFGR evaluations Parliament through the ministerial portfolio committees facilitates use of EFGR M&E results for policy, legal, institutional and programme reforms

Government Prepare EFGR M&E systems Adequately budget for EFGR M&E Provide EFGR monitoring information Ensure all stakeholders are involved in the M&E system including citizens Ensure feedback loops on monitoring information to the community level Ensure EFGR M&E findings are used to inform policy, legal, institutional and programme reforms

Evaluators Heightened need for evaluations requires Professionalizing evaluation introducing standards, ethics etc. role of ZEA? Capacity building of a critical mass of evaluators in EFGR – role ZEA? Knowledge of critical mass of managers – role of ZEA Design and deliver EFGR evaluations

ZEA plays a central role for success of the evaluation function

Government Conduct evaluations Parliament Evaluators Technical assistance Capacity Building Feedback on quality of evaluations Evaluators Feedback on quality of evaluations ZEA Enforcing standards Technical assistance Capacity Building Affiliation

Donor agencies Consumers of evaluation Support capacity building of national evaluators

Civil Society Utilise reports to advocate for delivery of results for the marginalized

Ordinary Citizens Consumers of evaluation results

Shift in approach what are the possibilities