1. People, Planet and Progress in the SDG Era
NEC2017
People, Planet and Progress in the SDG Era
Riitta Oksanen
President, European Evaluation Society (EES)
Deputy Director General, MFA, Finland
Bastiaan: and I am Bastiaan…
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2. NEC2017
What has changed in national evaluation systems since 2015? What does this mean for evaluation? What is SDG evaluation practice and capacity? What implications for evaluation and national evaluation systems future?

3. NEC2017 What has changed since 2015?
Unique opportunities: Agenda 2030 = common commitment to achieve sustainable development = universal SDGs Unique challenges:  universality  comprehensiveness, interlinkages  coherence

4. NEC2017 What is SDG evaluation?
Unique opportunities: Agenda 2030 review and follow-up, incl evaluation Stepping stones for action now! Unique challenges ≠ evaluation-business-as-usual New approaches  complexity, systems approaches, coherence New capacities: ”What is evaluation?” from policy silos to working together evaluation in multi-stakeholder setups

5. NEC2017 What is SDG evaluation?
LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND
= Beyond short-term focus on decision making
to service public interest
Unique challenges
 SDG evaluation as an element of democratic and open governance
SDG evaluation with and for citizens, consumers, users of public services to hold public and private decision maker to account

6. NEC2017 Future directions for evaluation