This may be coming at the question from a slightly different angle than Emilia intended, but as it happens, my team has just released a report on evaluation evidence (impact evaluations in particular) for the SDGs. We classified over 7,000 impact evaluation studies by SDG, with the goal of answering the question: "if I'm a policymaker working to improve progress on a particular SDG, how much evaluation evidence do I have to go on?". (The research questions are stated much more formally in the report, but that's the basic idea.)
We found that there has been a lot of evaluation work on "People" SDGs (e.g., poverty, food security, education) but the "Planet" SDGs have been largely neglected in the literature (with the exception of a big recent push by Chinese researchers to evaluate environmental regulations in China).
We argue for a coordinated "evidence for sustainable development" agenda, which will ensure that a broad base of evaluation evidence is available to support evidence-informed decisionmaking across all the SDGs.
Just mentioning this here as it may provide some useful info for folks interested in the role of evaluation in achieving the SDGs.
RE: How are we progressing in SDG evaluation?
This may be coming at the question from a slightly different angle than Emilia intended, but as it happens, my team has just released a report on evaluation evidence (impact evaluations in particular) for the SDGs. We classified over 7,000 impact evaluation studies by SDG, with the goal of answering the question: "if I'm a policymaker working to improve progress on a particular SDG, how much evaluation evidence do I have to go on?". (The research questions are stated much more formally in the report, but that's the basic idea.)
We found that there has been a lot of evaluation work on "People" SDGs (e.g., poverty, food security, education) but the "Planet" SDGs have been largely neglected in the literature (with the exception of a big recent push by Chinese researchers to evaluate environmental regulations in China).
We argue for a coordinated "evidence for sustainable development" agenda, which will ensure that a broad base of evaluation evidence is available to support evidence-informed decisionmaking across all the SDGs.
Just mentioning this here as it may provide some useful info for folks interested in the role of evaluation in achieving the SDGs.