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HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON<br />

“<strong>NO</strong> <strong>ONE</strong> <strong>LEFT</strong> <strong>BEHIND</strong>”<br />

The event held in New York in March 2016 started<br />

with the high-level panel, which was organized by the<br />

UN Women IEO, EvalGender+ and UNEG in collaboration<br />

with EvalPartners, Global Parliamentarians Forum<br />

for Evaluation, IOCE, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, Swiss<br />

Development Cooperation, C<strong>ONE</strong>VAL Mexico, the<br />

Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of Tunisia.<br />

The high-level panel was held at the Ford Foundation<br />

on 15 March and engaged ministers, parliamentarians,<br />

senior leaders from international organizations and<br />

civil society representatives. It addressed strategies<br />

for building an enabling environment to evaluate the<br />

SDGs with an equity-focused and gender-responsive<br />

lens. The panel was moderated by Marco Segone,<br />

UNEG Chair, Director of UN Women IEO and Co-chair<br />

of EvalGender+. Opening remarks were made by HE<br />

Olivier Zehnder, Deputy Permanent Representative of<br />

Switzerland to the United Nations.<br />

The panel was composed as follows:<br />

••<br />

Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary General, United<br />

Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs<br />

••<br />

HE Kabir Hashim, Minister of Public Enterprise<br />

Development, Sri Lanka; Chair, Global<br />

Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation<br />

• • Hon Susan Musyoka, Member of Parliament,<br />

Kenya; Africa Regional Representative to Global<br />

Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation Steering<br />

Evaluating the Sustainable Development Goals with<br />

an Equity-focused and Gender-responsive Lens 11

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