Human rights and gender equality in development evaluation – What capacity is needed? ENABLING ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTIONS INDIVIDUALS DEMAND SUPPLY PARTNERCOUNTRIES FINLAND

Human rights and gender equality in development evaluation – What does it take to make it happen? ENABLING ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTIONS INDIVIDUALSDEMANDSUPPLY PARTNERCOUNTRIES FINLAND Finland’s development policy 2012 = HRBA & gender Training for staff and consultant = Knowledge, skills, will New evaluation manual 2013 = HRBA & gender ?

Shared framework for NECD UNEG Chair and UNEG NECD TF Co-chair WB VP and DG IEG OECD/DAC EvalNet NECD TF chair IOCE President

Human rights and gender equality in development evaluation – What capacity is needed within the UN? ENABLING ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTIONS INDIVIDUALS DEMAND SUPPLY

Enabling environment SYSTEM-WIDE Policy: CEB System-Wide Policy on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2006) Accountability system: UN System Wide Action Plan on Gender and UN Women’s Coordination Role (2012), including UN SWAP Evaluation Performance Indicator Annual reporting Opportunities to raise senior management attention: Joint evaluation of Joint Gender Programmes (UNW, UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, MDG-F, Spain, Norway)  Joint meta-analysis of gender mainstreaming, results and evaluation systems (interested?) AGENCY-SPECIFIC: Board demand for HR&GR (Finland) Gender-responsive Evaluation Policy (UNW) Meta-evaluation system, including HR&GE (UNW) Annual report on evaluation function – including HR&GE - to Board

Institutional capacity SYSTEM-WIDE (Norms & Standards, operationalized by guidance and systems) UNEG Norms & Standards, including HR&GE HR&GE as the 6 th evaluation criteria UNEG TF on HR&GE UNEG guidance on HR&GE Manages UN SWAP Evaluation Performance Indicator reporting system, including guidance and training  2014 piloting and revision/finalization AGENCY-SPECIFIC: Meta-evaluation system, including HR&GE (UNW)

Individual capacity SYSTEM-WIDE  E-learning on HR&GE in partnership with EvalPartners (and EvalNet?) AGENCY-SPECIFIC: Internal training

Human rights and gender equality in development evaluation – What capacity is needed with partners countries? ENABLING ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTIONS INDIVIDUALS DEMAND SUPPLY

An international collaborative initiative with 34 key partners and others still joining

Centrality of HR&GE in Chiang Mai Declaration

Enabling environment GLOBAL (HR&GE central) EvalPartners Advocacy Strategy 2015 declared as International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear) International NEC Conference, Brazil UNEG UN SG speech at 2013 UN Evaluation week  UN Resolution (process with regional groups – including WEOG - more important)  Global EvalYear event in 2015 LOCAL (HR&GE central) Regional and national EvalYear declarations (by VOPEs): Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Kenya, Israel, Malaysia, Morocco, Philippines, Romenia, Slovenia, Thailand  Afrea, EvalMena, CoE, ReLAC, etc South Asia Parliamentarian Forum Public Hearing at the European Parliament (Led by EES)

Institutional capacity GLOBAL Advocacy for evaluation toolkit  Mapping of National Evaluation Policies  Guide on engendering National Evaluation Policies and systems LOCAL:  Technical assistance to engendering National Evaluation Polices and systems in Latin America and Caribbean and South Asia Peer to Peer mutual support programme ( 25 projects with 30 national & 6 regional VOPEs) Innovation Challenge (5 selected)  Peer to Peer mutual support programme  Innovation Challenge

Individual capacity GLOBAL E-learning on advocacy for evaluation MyM&E, Knowledge management system which include electronic resource center on HR&GE (2 million hits) LOCAL:  F2F training on advocacy for evaluation

In conclusion: 1. Policy, accountability framework, training, reporting 2. Strengthen policy makers attention – Creating opportunities for engagement 3. Join forces creating synergies based on the specific comparative advantage of each stakeholders: – EvalPartners (EvalNet, Finland, USA, Spain, Switzerland) – UNEG Strategic Objective 4 on partnership (with EvalNet, ECG, EvalPartners)