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Evaluation and Its Importance in Achieving SDGs

Evaluation and Its Importance in Achieving SDGs. V.Sivagnanasothy Secretary Ministry of National Integration and Reconciliation sivagnanasothy@hotmail.com. Defining SDGs and 2030 Agenda for Development in an Evaluation Context. SDGs are a set of

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Evaluation and Its Importance in Achieving SDGs

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  1. Evaluation and Its Importance in Achieving SDGs V.Sivagnanasothy Secretary Ministry of National Integration and Reconciliation sivagnanasothy@hotmail.com

  2. Defining SDGs and 2030 Agenda for Development in an Evaluation Context SDGs are a set of • 17 goals; 169 targets and 230 over indicators • Adapted by 193 UN member States in September 2015 • Aim to make world the happiest, prosperous and sustainable place to live Former UN Secretary General His Excellency Ban Ki Moon says it capture • Economic Development • Social Inclusion • Environment Sustainability • Strengthened Governance

  3. Defining SDGs and 2030 Agenda for Development in an Evaluation Context Provides time bound targets to end • Extreme Poverty • Inequality • Hunger and malnutrition • Illiteracy, Unemployment , • Diseases and health and well being • Conflict, tension and refugee crisis • Climate change and disaster

  4. Defining SDGs and 2030 Agenda for Development in an Evaluation Context A Plan of Action (15 years – 5 Ps) • People – no poverty; zero hunger; good health and well being; quality education; gender equality • Planet - Clean water and sanitation; responsible consumption and production; climate action; Life below water; Life on land • Prosperity – clean energy; decent work and economic growth; industry, innovation and infrastructure; reduced inequalities; sustainable cities and communities • Peace – peace and justice • Partnership – Partnership for goals Applicable to developed and developing countries

  5. Key Challenges and Achievements : M&E Perspectives 2015 MDGs have achievements and Challenges. Much more remains to be done Achievements – collective actions have worked • Global hunger slashed • More boys and girls in school • Malaria, Tuberculoses and measles – prevention and treatment saved lives • Number of people lifted from extreme poverty • HIV / AIDS deaths came down saved lives Development interventions worked; investment in public health worked; focused collective actions proved success

  6. Key Challenges and Achievements : M&E Perspectives We cannot be satisfied; More needs to be done • Sizable number of children are still not in school • Sizable number of people do not have access to safe drinking water and sanitation • Women still died in delivery • Sizable number of people still below US$ 1.25 per day poverty line • Cannot be achieved under “ business as usual” scenario – doing things differently

  7. Challenges in converting wealth into well-being Increase in GDP and per capita income alone is not sufficient; well being is more important Challenges : • Development is threatened by bad Governance – accountability, justice, rule of law; right to information, independent media • Development is threatened by inequalities – few benefitted – no one left behind • Development is threatened by conflict / war – IDPs / refugees • Development is threatened by climate change – Drought and floods • Development is threatened by old attitudes – Deny rights and opportunity to women Covert wealth into well being

  8. Whole – of- Government Approach : Role of MfDR in Achieving SDGs • Building SDGs into the national development plan and national budget • SDGs into NDP / Sector Plan / Ministry Action Plan / Provincial – sub national - District • Medium Term Budgetary Framework • SDGs into sub national planning • Alignment of NDP and Budget to SDGs • Localized SDGs into NDP / Budget – one size does not fit for all • Cascading - national to sub-national ; Programmes to Projects ; Plan to budget to monitoring

  9. Development programmes and projects should focused on SDGs – Project Planning Matrix and LFA • National Statistical Capacity and system - Capture new data and new sources of data; address data gaps ; frequency (HIES / DHS) • Disaggregated data – regional/ spatial/gender/ethnic : Aggregate data conceals and disaggregate data – reveals • Hotspots to target interventions : No one left behind

  10. Scorecards and Dash Boards • SDG indicators – traffic light signals • Country owned country led evaluations • Country evaluations and not donor evaluations • Monitoring tracks where evaluation examine how and why • What works ? What does not work ? Why ? Evaluation questions • NEP / evaluation Capacity / Institutional structure / Dissemination mechanisms / Management Response / Guidelines / Standards and ethics/ • Doing the right thing; doing thing rights; doing at a scale that makes a change • Learning and accountability for results • Performance audit – compliance to Parliamentary accountability

  11. THANK YOU

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