Country-led evaluation to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals : A guide for evaluation commissioners, managers and evaluators

This guidebook – co-produced by the Development Evaluation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, The German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), IDEAS, and UNICEF – provides a step-by-step guide on conducting evaluations of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It emphasizes the role of national governments in steering the evaluation process in a participatory way. Building on examples and lessons from several countries around the world, it aims to serve as a practical, hands-on resource for evaluation commissioners, managers and evaluators. This second edition of the guide: • Identifies key 2030 Agenda and SDG evaluation characteristics and approaches. • Lays out the main steps involved in initiating, scoping, designing, conducting and using a 2030 Agenda and SDG evaluation. • Discusses the ways in which the 2030 Agenda and SDG evaluation processes and results can be used to inform policy and support national progress on sustainable development. • Provides key guidelines to ensure SDG evaluations influence in high-level decision-making. • Looks at how 2030 Agenda and SDG evaluation can be integrated into national monitoring and evaluation systems. • Shows how 2030 Agenda and SDG evaluation can enrich or complement Voluntary National Review (VNR) reporting.