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 human systems make on natural systems. This requires attention to the nexus of human and natural systems and addressing effects across both systems.

This case study looked at how environmental sustainability might be addressed as part of a mid-term evaluation of a national strategy for private sector development. The case explored possible methods and processes for addressing environmental sustainability in an evaluation at a national scale and some of the factors that support or hinder applying these methods and processes.