End hunger Achieve food security

Improve nutrition Promote sustainable agriculture

Dr. Dorothy LucksInternational Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation: Secretary:

EvalPartners: Executive CommitteeEvalSDGs: Co-Chair

SDF Global: Executive Director

SDG2:

Focus – Evaluability of SDG2• “How can the need for accountability for development be

satisfied in a situation where development processes are becoming increasingly complex.

• More actors will be contributing to the achievement of SDG2? How to address the problem of individual accountability for support of complex processes and partnerships?”

Accountability can be satisfied – we have, or are building, the tools. Are we open and ready for accountability for learning?

Celebrate and strengthen the involvement of actors!

Addressing complexityBlue marble evaluation – seeing it as it is!

• AEA Eval2015 Michael Quinn Patton

Accountability – is the earth round? Evaluation – accountability + learning. Dynamic, searches for reason and changeAcknowledge complexity and present realities and experiencesNew tools: real time and process evaluations, bigdata, visualizations

Accountability for what in SDG2? Food security dimensions + sub-systems

• Availability – water & soil productivity, yields, production, farming systems

• Access – transportation, processing, value chains, affordability, trade flow

• Utilization – consumption, diversity, balance, consumer patterns

• Stability – effect of seasonality, food banks, conflict, climate change

New tools available for measuring e.g. Geo-tagging, Point of sale metrics, climate change science

Complexity and accountability (per sub-system)

• E.g. Value chain

Logistics/timeSafety/risks

$ Flow (capital & cash)

Technology

Primary production

Post-harvest processing

Manufactur-ing

Wholesale/retail

Consump-tion

Demand/Waste/

Re-investment

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (adapted), 2015

Project outputs:•Stakeholder mtgs•VC plans•New veg varietiesEvaluation:

Participants:• SH mtgs no use• capital late• no fertiliser • season delayed•Production not viable•Increased indebtedness•No improved food supplyImpact

Complexity: Increasing number of actors

Key stakeholders What accountability means?

Development financiers $ account - ability

National Governments ac – count # - ability

People account - ability

Celebrate and strengthen the involvement of actors!Acknowledge accountability interests of ALL actorsInvest in unique stakeholders “organisations”Together they will solve the problems of accountability and learning

Accountability and learning

•Accountability counts the known.

•Learning acknowledges the unknown

•It highlights the miracles and failures

•These should be a focus for formative and research-based evaluation

Individual accountability for SDG2MY accountability - Self-assessment questions

• Am I addressing the real issues?• Am I a good partner toward solving issues? • Are my processes working as expected?• Are I learning from miracles and mistakes- in time to

make changes? • Do my efforts reduce hunger/malnutrition?

Collective accountability for SDG2•Complexity - recognise and acknowledge the real situation; new measures for process quality•Accountability – embrace new tools• Partnerships – new approaches to strengthen and measure partnership quality•Improve - Transparency about failure as well as success• Focus - on learning

ACHIEVEMENT OF SDG2 • Requires higher intelligence• Faster change, • in a better way

EVALUABILITY OF SDG2• Targets provides focus for what we are going to change• Evaluation must include accountability and learning• Evaluation has to adapt and become more relevant to

facilitate change and achievement of the SDGs• It has to evaluate accountability for learning.