1. Workshop 3: National framework for politicians and policy makers
List of participants. A different prospective and experiences from different regions
Thanks to all participants for active involvement and fruitful discussion
Technical Seminar Evaluating SDGs with an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens 16 March 2016

2. Speakers: Arild Hauge, UNDP; Ada Ocampo UNICEF Panelists:
Hon. Kabir Hashim Sri Lanka
Hon. Susan Musyoka, Kenya
Hon. Samuel Hoyos, Colombia
Hon. Pol Ham, Cambodia
Hon. Ananda Pokharel, Nepal
Hon, Olfa Cherif, Tunisia
Hon. Natalia Nikitenko, Kyrgyzstan
Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation to promote policy makers and evaluation professionals working together for creation of enabling environment for evaluation

3. 1. Parliamentarians promoting SDG agenda
Question 1. How can parliamentarians\ Parliaments support governments to demonstrate accountability on the SDGs? What are the key messages to Governments and fellow parliamentarians?
Two dimensions of the discussion:
1. Parliamentarians promoting SDG agenda
2. Promoting monitoring and evaluation nationally and globally
We mean that SDGs are obviously global agenda shared by national governments and parliaments…
Can we speak about accountability on SDG before making sure it’s in the parliamentary agenda.. Do Mps know about SDG? Are they 100 percent involved? It’s not always a case.. It depends on the region, own experience, political construction.
The second question is about how strong M and E is in parliaments? Is there a national systems, policies, tools for Parliaments to support governments accountability on SDG?
SDG should be understood, shared, owned by the key decision makers – parliaments….

4. 1. Promoting SDG agenda
To make sure that national strategies and policies are in line and include SDGs
To make sure that SDGs are reflected in the Government\Ministries reports to the Parliament
Through the Parliamentary Committees\Commissions oversight function to provide accountability of governments\ministries on SDG
To facilitate collaboration with other stakeholders on accountability on the SDGs
To rise SDG agenda

5. 2. Promoting monitoring and evaluation nationally and globally
MPs work as conduit between government and people, so in accountability of the parliament to the PEOPLE and the government to the parliament M&E should be universal tool
To demand and support legislation on Monitoring and Evaluation and National M&E Policies (exmp. Amendments on M&E, Gender-responsive budget)
To facilitate capacity building of M&E systems nationally

6. To demand and support capacity building for M&E within the Parliaments
Parliaments should empower oversight units (Committees\Commissions\M&E units) to promote Evaluation Reports to the decision makers
Questions put in the agenda:
Budgets for M&E
Independence of M&E

7. 2. What is the role of parliamentarians to strengthen Equity-focus and Gender-responsive evaluation for SDGs?
To work with VOPEs, civil society, people, other stakeholders on building capacity
Gender-responsive budgets (exmp. Colombia, Mexico, Tunisia)
Gender and human rights expertise of all amendments in the parliament (exmp Kyrgyzstan)
To promote oversight Committees/Commissions to demand Gender- and Equity focused documents and disaggregated data
To rise the agenda of Equity-focused and Gender –responsive evaluation and built it in the National Policies and legislation

8. Thank you for the attention!!!
Questions to the Panelists?