International Women's Day 2030 - What Will Success Look Like?

 

Research shows that women often have to do as much and often even more than their male counterparts to demonstrate and be accepted as equal. Behaviors accepted by men are judged inappropriate if exercised by women. In short: a simple numerical target will get us only so far.

March 8. For more than a hundred years, people across the globe have marked International Women's Day by paying tribute to the many great contributions women have made to society. It is a time to celebrate and reflect.

Is the World Bank Group on course to meet the twin goals?

 

Earlier this month, the Independent Evaluation Group released its 2015 annual report, looking back at our operations over the twelve months ending June 2015. This year's IEG report is significant for many reasons, not least because it marks the first year since the World Bank Group launched its most far-reaching internal reorganization in recent years.

Transforming Our World - Aiming to Sustain Development

 

Lessons from the past suggest the shift that's needed might be much larger and in unexpected areas.  

Fifteen years on and the world will come together again in September at the United Nations General Assembly to agree on new development goals. This time the goals are bolder - eradicating poverty instead of halving it - and broader-based. And, above all: they recognize that human progress is possible only when it respects and invests in sustaining the world we live in. 

Transforming Our World - Aiming for Sustainable Development

In order to draw relevant insights from past development experiences, the Independent Evaluation Group looked at several recent evaluations that speak to the SDGs as well as the World Bank Group's engagement with the MDGs. This paper draws relevant lessons and insights to help decision-makers and development practitioners build on past successes and avoid preventable mistakes as they implement the SDGs.

Evaluation Beyond 2015: Implications of the SDGs for Evaluation

 
 
2015 is setting a new agenda for development. And by implication for evaluation. 
 

In an earlier blog Evaluation Beyond 2015: Implications of Financing for Development, I reflected on the International Financing for Development (Fin4Dev) conference that took place in Addis Ababa and what it would take to sustainably finance economic and social progress. 

Getting Fit for 2030: Evaluation Beyond 2015

 

2015 is the year in which global leaders and the community at large define their vision for a better world in 2030: a world of greater prosperity, greater equality and inclusion, and greater resilience against climate change. An ambitious vision that will need to reconcile conflicting demands of growth, equity, and the environment.

For evaluation and evaluators, the evolving scenario has a number of implications including the need to:

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