1. Opportunities in evaluating Equitable and Sustainable Development in the context of SDGs Marco Segone Director, UN Women Independent Evaluation Office Chair, United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Co-chair, EvalPartners

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

3. The world we have vs the world we want

4. A massive concentration of wealth The richest 1% of the population owns 40% of the world’s wealth, while the poorest 50% of the population owns only 1% of the world’s wealth The world’s three richest people own wealth equivalent to the combined GDP of the world’s poorest 48 countries.

5. Development is unfinished business 925 m people are still malnourished 1 in 3 women will be beaten, raped, abused, or mutilated in their lifetimes

6. Equitable development for equitable societies

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

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

10. FROM THIS …

11. Source:, Rob Mcqueary, 2013 … TO THIS

12. Good news! Several countries recognize the importance of equitable development International development community too

13. SDGs

14. 2030 Agenda/SDGs 1.Inclusive and participatory process (and ownership) 2.Universal 3.Comprehensive and integrated People, prosperity, planet, peace, partnership

15. 2030 Agenda/SDGs http://peleah.me/sdg/sdgs-targets.html

16. 4. No one left behind!

17. 2030 Agenda/SDGs

18. 5. Follow-up and review mechanism A robust, effective, inclusive and transparent follow-up and review framework, operating at the national, regional and global levels

19. Principles voluntary and country-owned open, inclusive and transparent, and support the participation of all people and all stakeholders build on existing platforms and processes, avoid duplication, respond to national circumstances rigorous and based on evidence, informed by data which is timely, reliable and disaggregated

20. Follow-up and review mechanism informed by country-led evaluations calls for strengthening national evaluation capacity

21. The challenge for the evaluation community

22. No one left behind!

23. How to evaluate equitable development interventions? What are the evaluation questions to assess interventions are relevant and are having an impact in decreasing inequity and in achieving results for the worst-off groups? What are the methodological, political, social and financial implications in designing, conducting, managing and using evaluations responsive to social equity and gender equality? How to strengthen the capacities of Governments, CSOs and Parliamentarians to evaluate the effect of interventions on equitable outcomes for marginalized populations?

24. The power of equity- focused and gender- responsive evaluation

26. UNICEFType your title in this FOOTER area and in CAPS

27. An assessment made of the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of interventions on equitable development results, with a specific focus on gender equality and women empowerment. Looks at structural bottlenecks and power relationships Empowerment process What is Equity focused and Gender responsive evaluation?

28. Would you recommend this policy to be continued?

30. Three Challenges SDGs with an equity and gender lens? Complexity? Strengthen NEC?

31. The best way forward …

32. EvalPartners Global Partnership The EvalPartners Global Partnership includes 58 members UN agencies, universities, bilateral funders, multi-lateral banks, voluntary organizations for professional evaluation (VOPEs), and others

33. 2015 declared International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear)

34. 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

35. 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

36. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries December 2012 - International Forum of Civil Society Evaluation Capacity Building Strategies 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

37. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping December 2012: Global EvalPartners Forum decided to have an Advocacy strategy December 2012 - International Forum of Civil Society Evaluation Capacity Building Strategies 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

38. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping February 2013: EvalPartners decides to declare 2015 EvalYear December 2012 - International Forum of Civil Society Evaluation Capacity Building Strategies 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

39. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries November 2014: EvalYear officially declared at NEC Conference in Brazil 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

40. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries December 2014: UN General Assembly Resolution 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

41. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries January 2015: Evaluation Torch lighted at UN Building in NYC 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

42. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries April 2015: UN Secretary General lit Evaluation Torch at UNEG Evaluation Week 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

43. Countries Joining EvalYear Events

44. From Ministers in developed countries …

45. … and in emerging and developing countries ……

46. … to young evaluators.

47. Global Evaluation Week EvalPartners, under the leadership of IOCE and UN Women Government of Nepal Parliament of Nepal Parliamentarians Forum for Development Evaluation UNEG

48. At the Parliament of Nepal: The Global Parliamentarian Forum for Evaluation EvalGender+ EvalYouth EvalSDG Global Evaluation Agenda for 2016-2020

49. Evaluation: an agent of change for the world we want