015 brought together three important development agendas. Central to them are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Created through an extensive consultation process, the SDGs set out a vision for 2030, adopted at the UN Summit in September. The SDG summit was preceded by the Addis-Ababa conference on Finance for Development (Fin4Dev), which brought together key development actors to discuss options for funding the ambitious SDGs. The Paris conference on climate finance (COP21) brought a particular focus on commitments - both in terms of goals and finance - to achieve greater sustainability of development processes and outcomes. We summarized IEGâs findings relevant to the SDG Summit and the Fin4Dev conference in short publications.
The agendas agreed at these three conferences are large, complex, and involve many different stakeholders, actions, funding sources, new partnerships, and so on. Together they have implications for evaluation, which pose challenges as much as they provide opportunities.