1. Evaluation Action Plan of Nepal (2016-2020)
Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation on Equity Focused and Gender Responsive
National Evaluation Policies and Systems Nov. 2016
Melia Hotel, Hanoi
Nepal Team
Hon. Ananda Pokharel, NPFDEP
Gokul Khadka, NPC
Gana Pati Ojha, COE-Nepal
Subarna Lal Shrestha, NES

2. Presentation Flow Current Situation National Evaluation Action Plan
Enabling Environment
Institutional Capacity
Culture of Working together
National Evaluation Action Plan
Contribution to Global Evaluation Community
Challenges

3. Existing Situation Enabling Environment
Constitutional Provision: Clause 54 and 287
Evaluation Act:
Draft Bill in the Table of OPMCM
Reviewed the Draft Bill from Inclusive, Gender and Equity perspective
Policy—sectoral policies but not evaluation policy as such
M&E National Guidelines
GG&MC in Parliament
NPFDEP
VOPEs—COE-N, NES, SOME

4. Institutional Capacity
Capable of organising national and international events
National Evaluation Networking meeting (Annual since 2013)
Evaluation Conclave 2013
Global Evaluation Week 2015

5. National Workshop on EVALSDG and EvalAgenda

6. Culture of working together in place
Parliamentarians
Government
VOPEs
Academia
Private Sector
CSOs
UN agencies
Donors
Support from Global Evaluation Community (IOCE/EvalPartners/GoS…)

7. National Evaluation Action Plan 2020
Enabling Environment
Capacity Development
Networking and Coordination
Planned evaluation and SDG monitoring
Documentation, Dissemination and Use of Evaluation

8. Evaluation Action Plan 2016-2020
Time Frame
Enabling
Environment
Expedite the process to pass draft EFGR M&E bill  from the parliament
June 2017
Formulate inclusive, EFGR evaluation policy with norms and standard
Dec 2017
Institutional capacity
Evaluation capacity assessment of government officials, independent evaluators and UN M&E officers and M&E focal point
Develop standard training modules and university course content on equity focused and gender responsive evaluation
Jan-Feb 2017
Make evaluation material available through repository centre/EVAL SDG knowledge portal
Individual capacity
Train 500 evaluation commissioners and evaluators on equity focused and gender responsive evaluation
Target : NPC- 200, UN- 200 and CoE-80 and others
Attend online courses on evaluation

9. Evaluation Action Plan 2016-2020
Time Frame
HOW:
Networking and Coordination
Develop briefing papers on EvalSDG in Nepal’s context
Translate briefing papers on EvalSDG, EvalGender+ 
Dec 2016
Increased understanding of EVAL SDG at all levels
Annual Evaluation network meeting
Create EvalSDG groups and networks according to thematic areas
Establish collaboration with global SDG evaluation forums
Establish networking and learning mechanism among national and sub-national levels
Planned Evaluation and SDG Monitoring
Develop consolidated evaluation plan
NPC
Internal: 20; External: 12
UN: TBD
Conduct 2 thematic meta-evaluation of all the evaluations commenced by Government and UN agencies
Theme 1: Equity focused and gender responsive meta evaluation
Theme 2: TBD
2017 and 2019

10. Evaluation Action Plan 2016-2020
Time Frame
Documentation, Dissemination and Use
Equity focused and gender responsive tools developed and used
Review existing tools on 1) equity focused evaluation and 2) gender responsive evaluation and Develop integrated tool on equity focused and gender responsive evaluation methodology
Pilot and tailor it to national context in meta evaluation
Review SDG indicators through equity focused and gender responsive lens.
Jan-May 2017
Dec 2017
Strengthen national statistical system
Ongoing
Collection of disaggregated data as per the need of SDG and other indicators:
·         Nepal living standards survey [NLSS]-2017
·         Multiple indicator cluster survey [MICS]-2019
·         Nepal demographic and health survey [NDHS]-2020
·         National CENSUS-2021

11. Evaluation Action Plan 2016-2020
Follow up
Lead
Time Frame
Next Steps :
Evaluation Networking meeting
NPC
Dec 2016
Re conforming of commitment of Stakeholders
Lobbing for Bill proceed to Parliament
Facilitation of bill in Parliament (Orientation to Parliamentarians)
Meeting with DPs
Quarterly review meeting (16 meetings)
VOPE
NPFEPD
June 2017

12. Contribution to Global Community
Development of Inclusive, Equity and Gender Responsive evaluation methodology
Development Management Response Index
Development of Partnership Process: A process of working together

13. Challenges Translating plan into reality Use of evaluation
Coordination
Support from DPs
Support from Global Evaluation Community

14. Thank you