Episodes

  • 3. Country-led evaluations: revealing the progress of Agenda 2030

    3. Country-led evaluations: revealing the progress of Agenda 2030
    Apr 20 2022
    With the COVID-19 pandemic diverting everyone’s attention, including national and sub-national governments, progress towards achieving Agenda 2030 has slowed down. Now there’s a need to refocus policy planning to get back on track, bearing in mind that budgets are stretched in many directions. In the third and final episode of this podcast mini-series ‘Sustainable Development Goals – Evaluating progress for a brighter future’, Kassem El Saddik, co-chair of EvalSDGs, hosts a discussion on what country-led evaluations can bring to assessing progress towards the SDGs.
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    40 mins
  • 2. Defining and scoping an SDG evaluation – how do you get started?

    2. Defining and scoping an SDG evaluation – how do you get started?
    Feb 17 2022
    Sustainable development is every country’s goal. How they achieve it isn’t always straightforward. Evaluating progress against the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their multiple targets is complex. Few countries have done a formal evaluation but where they have, they have learnt lessons that could be shared with others. In the second episode of podcast mini-series ‘Sustainable Development Goals – Evaluating progress for a brighter future’, Dirk Hoffmann and Nataly Salas Rodríguez from DEval host two discussions, one in English and one in Spanish, about how an SDG evaluation is done. In the English-language episode, experts discuss what an ‘SDG evaluation’ actually means and the importance of judging progress against a range of objectives and principles set by the 2030 Agenda - rather than an advance against one target only. They shine light on the case of Finland.
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    39 mins
  • 2. Definición y alcance de una evaluación de ODS ¿por dónde empezamos?

    2. Definición y alcance de una evaluación de ODS ¿por dónde empezamos?
    Feb 17 2022
    El desarrollo sostenible es el objetivo de todos los países, pero la forma de conseguirlo no siempre es sencilla. Evaluar el progreso de los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) y sus múltiples metas es algo complejo. Pocos países han realizado una evaluación formal, pero los que lo han hecho han aprendido algunas lecciones que podrían ser útiles a otros. En el segundo episodio de la miniserie de “Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. Evaluando el progreso para un futuro más brillante", Dirk Hoffmann y Nataly Salas Rodríguez de DEval presentan, en dos charlas, una en inglés y otra en español, cómo realizar una evaluación de los ODS. El episodio en español se centra en el caso de Costa Rica, líder mundial en políticas climáticas y de biodiversidad, que realizó su evaluación de los ODS en 2020.
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    43 mins
  • 1. Adaptive evaluation: considering climate risks in theory and practice

    1. Adaptive evaluation: considering climate risks in theory and practice
    Dec 13 2021
    Every country has 2030 as the date for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Some are well on the way to meeting targets, others have further to go. In this new three-part mini-series, we explore how to evaluate progress against the goals. In episode one 'Adaptive evaluation: considering climate risks in theory and practice', IIED hosts a discussion about the principles, practice and challenges of considering climate risks in evaluation of programmes aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This episode features Stefano D’Errico, head of monitoring, evaluation and learning in IIED's Strategy and Learning group; Emilie Beauchamp, senior researcher in IIED's Strategy and Learning group; Nick Brooks, adaptation specialist and director of Garama 3C; and Samson Machuka, director of the monitoring and evaluation department in the State Department for Planning and Statistics within the National Treasury and Planning of the Government of Kenya.
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    35 mins
  • 3. Taking locally led adaptation global

    3. Taking locally led adaptation global
    Jun 9 2021
    In the third and final episode of the podcast, four experts on climate policy explore ways to align global climate finance systems more effectively with the real situations of people in communities and at the local level, to ensure successful locally led adaptation to climate change.
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    49 mins
  • 2. The ‘A’ Factor: accountability for locally led adaptation

    2. The ‘A’ Factor: accountability for locally led adaptation
    May 20 2021
    In the second episode, modelled on popular UK television programme 'The 'X' Factor', four global practitioners and researchers from organisations that endorse the eight principles for locally led adaptation spell out what they propose to do to enable local people to be in the driving seat of climate adaptation decision-making. Then two expert ‘judges’ hold them to account...
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    45 mins
  • 1. From principles to practice: commitments from donor organisations

    1. From principles to practice: commitments from donor organisations
    May 13 2021
    At the start of 2021, 40 governments and leading organisations endorsed eight principles for locally led adaptation. As the number of endorsers grows, IIED has launched an innovative podcast mini-series to explore what this commitment will mean in practice. In the first episode of a three-part series, ‘From principles to practice: commitments from donor organisations’, IIED’s Aditya Bahadur is joined by representatives of three donor organisations that endorsed the principles. They set out what they intend to do differently to put them into practice. The three guests and Bahadur interview each other and present their commitments and plans for the future. These pledges are assessed by a leading practitioner representing grassroots voices. Are they putting local communities in the driver’s seat of adaptation decision-making? Are the proposed actions going to enable people battling climate impacts to lead processes of adaptation?
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    35 mins