This guidance from the Footprint Evaluation Initiative aims to support those doing or overseeing evaluations to include environmental sustainability in feasible and useful ways. It is intended to support people who are planning, managing or conducting evaluations, especially within national and sub...

The Footprint Evaluation Initiative aims to ensure that all evaluations consider environmental sustainability, regardless of whether this is an explicit objective of the project, policy or program being evaluated. This report describes four ‘thought experiments’ undertaken as part of this project...

Lamia Remaud her paper presents a new system-based approach to designing and evaluating programmes in a way that fully embeds environment and biodiversity issues. It seeks to put nature back at the centre of development work in an effort to encourage stronger ambitions when it comes to mitigating or...

The Footprint Evaluation Initiative is an international collaboration to support evaluators and evaluation managers to consider environmental sustainability in all evaluations, even when this is not a stated goal of the intervention. Footprint evaluation approaches focus on the ‘footprint’ that...

Impacts of climate shocks risk undermining or even reversing sustainable development progress both locally and globally. Solutions that work now may not be suitable for the future: there is an urgent need for countries and the international community to move from looking at ‘what works’ to...

This EVALSDGs Evaluation Insight focuses on the need to mainstream environmental sustainability in the evaluation of all interventions, even when environmental sustainability is not a stated goal. It shows that for the most part, this is not happening, and then provides some conceptual...

This guideline from the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) of South Africa provides technical guidance on applying a Climate and Ecosystem Health (CEH) lens when undertaking evaluative work.

Seven years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, methods and approaches for evaluating sustainable development interventions have remained largely unchanged and are failing to provide a basis for understanding how future sustainable development interventions can withstand...

In this paper, fourteen leading evaluation practitioners were asked to reflect on lessons from the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) for evaluation practice. Questions discussed include the following: the importance of evaluating equity between rich and poor countries and other forms of climate...

This briefing note summarizes the outcomes of the post-COP26 dialogue: The role of evaluation for climate action. A post-COP26 dialogue on how evaluative evidence can help deliver the Paris Agreement. Evaluation can bring a lot of value to learning and forging solutions as part of global efforts to...

In recent years, evaluation has emerged as an increasingly important function in determining the worth and value of development interventions in terms of their relevance, impact, performance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability. Evaluation has been formalized as a function in most...

This Guidance Note focuses on how to design a national Monitoring & Evaluation system for tracking adaptation action, policies and plans in agriculture and on how to report at international, national and sectoral level. The Guidelines have been developed by the Integrating Agriculture in National...

Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development builds upon a selection of the most relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2014 conference. This book aims to provide an authoritative interdisciplinary perspective of innovative and emerging evaluation knowledge and...