Looking to the future. Partnership for equity- focused and gender- responsive evaluation. Marco Segone Director, UN Women Evaluation Office Co-chair, EvalPartners Vice-chair, United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG)

Our journey together in the then next 30’ 1.The world we have vs the world we want 2.Equitable development: what, why, how and … a good news! 3.The challenge for the evaluation community 4.The best way forward …

The world we have vs the world we want

A massive concentration of wealth 40% of the world’s wealth is owned by the richest 1% of the population while the poorest half own only 1% The world’s three richest people own wealth equivalent to the combined GDP of the world’s poorest 48 countries. Source: Picciotto, IDEAS Conference, 2013

Development is unfinished business Out of 5 billion people in developing countries, 2.5 billion people live on US$2 a day or less and 1.3 b on US$1.25 a day or less 925 m people are still malnourished Women are paid 10 to 30% less than men; Only 1 in 5 parliamentarians are women; 1 in 3 women and girls will be beaten, raped, abused, or mutilated in their lifetimes

MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

MDG 2:Achieve universal primary education

MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

MDG 5: Improve maternal health

Equitable development

Final aim All rights for all human beings everywhere at any time, by prioritizing the most deprived

Equity: a strategy to achieve equality Different treatment for different situation … … to ensure everybody can enjoy the same rights

Why does equitable development matter?

Why equity Inequity constitutes a violation of human rights and hampers the equitable achievements on Human Development and MDGs Equity has a positive impact in the construction of a socially fair and democratic society Unequal opportunities of social groups in society is often a significant factor behind social unrest, which may lead to crime or even violent conflict, with negative effects for the social cohesion of a society.

Why equity Equity has a significant positive impact in reducing poverty Equity may have a positive impact on economic growth

Good news! Several countries recognize the importance of equitable development International development community too Very likely, in the future Sustainable Development Goals equity and gender equality will be mainstreamed

The challenge for the evaluation community

How to evaluate equitable development interventions? What are the evaluation questions to assess interventions are relevant and are having an impact in decreasing inequity, are achieving equitable results, and are efficient and sustainable? What are the methodological, political, social and financial implications in designing, conducting, managing and using Equity-focused evaluations? How the capacities of Governments, CSOs and communities to evaluate the effect of interventions on equitable outcomes for marginalized populations be strengthened?

The power of equity- focused and gender- responsive evaluation

An assessment made of the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of interventions on equitable development results, with a specific focus on gender. Empowerment process

What’s the impact?

Potential challenges in promoting EFGR evaluatio ns Political and social resistance to addressing the causes of exclusion and vulnerability Resistance to empowerment of worst-off groups Lack of interest/incentives and reluctance to invest resources in the worst-off groups Weak capacity to implement targeted approaches and/or programmes in difficult areas Reluctance to accept disaggregated indicators

Potential challenges in implementing EFGR evaluations Methodological challenges to evaluate complex interventions Lack of disaggregate data or data collection capacities Additional costs Reluctance to work with CSO

The best way forward …

A systematic approach …

… to be implemented in partnership

Why EvalPartners? Historical “critical mass” of existing expertise Willingness of different stakeholders (VOPE, UN, INGO, Foundations, Universities, Banks) to collaborate to enhance NECD

Key achievements Systems to strengthen individual evaluators’ capacities: 2 millions hits and ½ million visitors to MyM&E registered participants from 178 countries at e-learning at 3 USD/participant Strengthen institutional capacity of VOPEs Peer to peer mutual support programme: 25 projects supporting 31 national & 6 regional VOPEs Innovation challenge: 21 proposal received, 5 selected Institutional capacity toolkit Good practices identified, documented, published and disseminated

Good practices documented

Key achievements Enabling environment for evaluation: Advocacy strategy developed Advocacy toolkit developed Parliamentarians Forum for development evaluation created in South Asia and Africa International year of Evaluation (EvalYear)

Key achievement: United in diversity Growing and diverse glocal community working as a flexible networked movement

IOCE Board meeting in Accra, January 2012

2015 declared International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear)

a Global Initiative of Coordinated Local Action advocate and promote demand and use of evaluation in evidence-based policy making position evaluation in the policy arena

Why 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) National development policies should be informed by evidence generated by country-led evaluation systems, rather than donor-led ones

Building EvalYear Together Global: UN resolution High-level events Briefings with Member States’ regional groups Local Declared NEC Conf in Brazil 15 VOPEs UNEG and OECD/DAC EvalNet endorsed, ECG interested Parliamentarian Forums in South Asia and Africa EvalYear logo in 18 languages, and in electronic signatures

Global Evaluation Agenda

Join the networked global multi- stakeholders consultative processes  A global on-line consultation that will be kicked-off with a global live webinar in early September 2014, to be followed by 8-weeks of on-line discussion (2 weeks for each of the 4 questions above)  Additional web-based or face to face consultations organized by different stakeholders with their own constituency

You have the power to frame a Global Evaluation Agenda for an equitable development