This practical guidebook – co-produced by IDEAS, DEval, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, and UNICEF – provides a step-by-step guide for conducting evaluations of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda. Rather than a one-size-fits-all manual, it helps countries evaluate their own progress on the SDGs and use the results to shape policy, with approaches tailored to each country’s context and grounded in Agenda 2030 principles like leaving no one behind and equity.
What’s Inside
The second edition includes:
- Key characteristics and approaches to 2030 Agenda and SDG evaluation
- Main steps for initiating, scoping, designing, conducting, and using evaluations
- Guidance on using evaluation results to inform policy and support national progress
- Guidelines for ensuring SDG evaluations influence high-level decision-making
- Strategies for integrating SDG evaluation into national monitoring and evaluation systems
- Insights on enriching or complementing Voluntary National Review (VNR) reporting
- Fresh case studies from Colombia, Ecuador, Uganda, Finland, Nigeria, and Costa Rica
- Two new chapters on starting evaluations and using results for policy influence
The guide directly supports UN General Assembly Resolution 77/283, which encourages member states to use SDG evaluation evidence to strengthen their Voluntary National Reviews and decision-making.
Available in Three Languages
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