Enhancing Accountability for Sustainable Development in Complex Systems
Focusing on SDG2 - End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture, the content delves into the evaluability of development processes amid increasing complexity. It emphasizes the need for accountability, new tools for measurement, and the involvement of various actors to address challenges effectively.
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SDG2: End hunger Achieve food security Improve nutrition Promote sustainable agriculture Dr. Dorothy Lucks International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation: Secretary: EvalPartners: Executive Committee EvalSDGs: Co-Chair SDF Global: Executive Director
Focus Evaluability of SDG2 How can the need for accountability for development be satisfied in a situation where development processes are becoming increasingly complex. Accountability can be satisfied we have, or are building, the tools. Are we open and ready for accountability for learning? 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? Celebrate and strengthen the involvement of actors!
Addressing complexity Blue 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 change Acknowledge complexity and present realities and experiences New 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) Participants: SH mtgs no use capital late no fertiliser season delayed Production not viable Increased indebtedness No improved food supply Impact E.g. Value chain Primary production Demand/ Post-harvest processing Waste/ Re- investment Logistics/time Safety/risks $ Flow (capital & cash) Project outputs: Stakeholder mtgs VC plans New veg varieties Evaluation: Technology Manufactur- ing Consump- tion Wholesale/ retail World Business Council for Sustainable Development (adapted), 2015
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 actors Invest 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 SDG2 MY 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.
