The Road to the SDGs

PURPOSE X Significant economic progress has been made by many MCs over the past decades, enabling them to move towards achieving the SDGs. However, the mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating those interventions have not developed at the same pace, leaving the governments lagging in terms of result measurement. X Through the OED, IsDB has leveraged its expertise and experience in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to help MCs improve their M&E systems and result measurement capacities. X Evaluation capacity development initiatives were undertaken with the aim to develop: – A culture of evidence-based decision making in MCs – M&E systems within MCs – The evaluation capacity of public institutions as well as evaluation professionals. X These activities are aligned with the Awareness, Linkages, Competency, Delivery and Reinforcement components of the P5P, demonstrably in IsDB’s activities in Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Morocco and Senegal. METHOD X IsDB works diligently to identify the need for capacity development in the areas of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment in MCs. In addition to the supply-driven approach, OED responds in several cases to the demands of MCs. X In concert with partners such as the World Bank, capacity development programmes, including tailored workshops, case studies, simulations and M&E systems development support, are designed to suit the specific needs of MCs. X Efforts to impart capacity development initiatives often combine classroom training with practical evaluation experience. For example, participants from the Court of Audit in Morocco had the opportunity to act as external members of the OED evaluation team. X In some cases, IsDB collaborated with government agencies to transform them into centres of excellence for capacity development in M&E, preparing the agency officials to train other officials to shift the country’s decision- and policy-making systems into evidence-based activities. X The Court of Audit in Morocco and the Astana International Financial Centre in Kazakhstan are now equipped with the capacity to train other agencies, resulting in a cascading effect of capacity development initiatives. X IsDB has joined the Global Evaluation Initiative, a broad and inclusive group of Enhancing MCs' Evaluation Capacity I n addition to its function as financier, IsDB is a knowledge bank, and its Operations Evaluation Department (OED) has contributed to helping MCs strengthen their monitoring and evaluation systems and capacities at all levels to allow them to generate and use evaluative evidence for more effective policies Through the capacity development of public officials from MCs in results measurement, the OED helps implement awareness, competency, delivery and reinforcement [ 48 ] SDGs