NO ONE LEFT BEHIND

international organizations, and civil society representatives.
The panel was moderated by Marco Segone,
UNEG Chair, Director of UN Women IEO, and Co-chair
of EvalGender+.
The technical seminar was held on 16 and 17 March. It
focused on three different themes that were facilitated
by three distinguished Chairs. The seminar started
with two panels on experts’ views and then the Chairs
introduced themes in detail, followed by the workshops.
The online consultation, high-level panel and
technical seminar were based on three key themes:
1. Relevance of “new metrics” (measurement tools
and indicators) for the evaluation of SDGs from an
equity-focused and gender-responsive perspective
2. Evaluation and complexity: Dealing with the
increasing complexity of development and interconnectedness
of the SDGs to ensure “No one is left
behind”
3. Demand for and use of evidence from evaluation:
Understanding the political economy of equityfocused
and gender-responsive evidence
On 17 March, the technical seminar participants
gathered at the plenary for presentations from each
workshop leader. Ziad Moussa, IOCE President and
Co-chair of EvalPartners chaired the session. The session
also included a presentation from Oscar Garcia,
Director of the International Fund for Agricultural
Development Evaluation Office who shared the outcome
of a workshop on evaluability of SDG 2 that
had been organized by United Nations (UN) agencies
based in Rome.
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Michael Bamberger, Independent Consultant and
former Senior Evaluator, World Bank
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Florence Etta, founder and former Chair, African
Gender and Development Evaluators Network
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Rosario Cárdenas, Council Member, CONEVAL, Mexico
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Thomas Schwandt, Professor, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Marco Segone, UNEG Chair, Director of UN Women IEO
and Co-chair of EvalGender+ facilitated the concluding
remarks of the technical seminar.
Attendees of the event made a commitment to
moving forward in evaluating the SDGs with a more
equity-focused and gender-responsive lens by increasing
collaboration. They concluded that:
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Evaluators should drive the invitation to reframe the
SDG agenda for the next 15 years with an emphasis
on transformative change.
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There is a need to focus on who is being left out
and identify ways of “bringing them in”, rather than
staying with aggregate measures to understand the
realities.
• • Evaluators should become activists, and not just
experts, and work together with policymakers to
ensure evidence is brought back to the driver’s seat.
The last session, titled “What have we learned? Key
elements necessary for establishing a framework to
evaluate SDGs with an equity-focused and genderresponsive
lens” was chaired by Andrea Cook, Director
of the UNFPA Evaluation Office. It included the following
speakers, who highlighted key learnings:
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Maria Bustelo, Dean Delegate for Gender Equality,
Director of Equality, Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, and former President, European Evaluation
Society
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