- know about key evaluation approaches and practices targeting on sustainable development and the implementation of Agenda 2030,

- understand the specifics of national monitoring and evaluations systems and the importance of system, inclusive and transition thinking for evaluating the SDGs,

In 2015, the UN General Assembly endorsed the Sustainable Development Goals as an important part of the Agenda 2030. For evaluation, this is a significant change and switch of perspective. While development evaluation tends to focus on projects or programs financed by international donor organizations, the evaluation of SDGs will primarily be a national task and a new challenge both for evaluators and national authorities. The main issue is the integrative approach of sustainable development, including different systems (ecology, economy and the social system), different levels of activities (global, regional, national and local level) and different time-spans (short-term, medium-term and long-term). This challenges the existing forms of monitoring and evaluation systems that are merely developed in different policy fields, more or less incompatible and specialized. The workshop introduces key elements of evaluating sustainable development and gives some examples for its implementation in monitoring and evaluation systems.

In doing so, the workshop emphasizes on system integration as a main target and offers some insights into approaches who show interlinkages between SDGs..

Wolfgang Meyer

min. 13h and max. 20h over a period of 5 days

- Monitoring and Evaluation officers in public or private organizations;

- Young and Emerging Evaluators who want to work in the field of evaluating SDGs;

- Sustainability experts who want to know more about the potentials of Monitoring and Evaluation.

This is a workshop on beginners’ level.