1. WHY MONITOR AND EVALUATE SDGS
WHY MONITOR AND EVALUATE SDGS? THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT AND M&E EXPERTS
Ngonidzaishe Marimo

2. Why Monitor SDGs: Outline
Roles of Different Stakeholders
Shift in approach what are the possibilities

3. Why Monitor and Evaluate SDGs
SDGs provide a morale obligation by states to provide evidence to their citizens that no-one is being left behind
The complex nature of SDGs requires continued tracking to determine progress made and the factors that need redress though policy, legislation, administration or programme reorientation
The multi-stakeholder nature of SDGs and its requirements for partnerships means a greater demand for evidence based reporting on performance to maintain trust in the partnerships
SDGs are designed as a forward looking with evidence based evaluations and monitoring helping to re-engineer programmes

4. Stakeholders SDGs Parliament Development Partners Civil Society
Ordinary citizens
Evaluators
Government

5. Parliament
To ensure that Equity Focused and Gender Responsive (EFGR) evaluation become part of legislation, oversight and policy decisions
To advocate for shift from traditional M&E to EFGR M&E for Zimbabwe’s development blue print
To advocate for and facilitate the strengthening of the capacity of key public institutions to provide inclusive M&E strategies
To promote EFGR evidence based engagement with the public
To advocate for government to budget adequately for EFGR evaluations
Parliament through the ministerial portfolio committees facilitates use of EFGR M&E results for policy, legal, institutional and programme reforms

6. Government Prepare EFGR M&E systems Adequately budget for EFGR M&E
Provide EFGR monitoring information
Ensure all stakeholders are involved in the M&E system including citizens
Ensure feedback loops on monitoring information to the community level
Ensure EFGR M&E findings are used to inform policy, legal, institutional and programme reforms

7. Evaluators Heightened need for evaluations requires
Professionalizing evaluation introducing standards, ethics etc. role of ZEA?
Capacity building of a critical mass of evaluators in EFGR – role ZEA?
Knowledge of critical mass of managers – role of ZEA
Design and deliver EFGR evaluations

8. ZEA plays a central role for success of the evaluation function

9. Government Conduct evaluations Parliament Evaluators
Technical assistance
Capacity Building
Feedback on quality of evaluations
Evaluators
Feedback on quality of evaluations
ZEA
Enforcing standards
Technical assistance
Capacity Building
Affiliation

10. Donor agencies Consumers of evaluation
Support capacity building of national evaluators

11. Civil Society
Utilise reports to advocate for delivery of results for the marginalized

12. Ordinary Citizens
Consumers of evaluation results

13. Shift in approach what are the possibilities