How SDG Evaluations are Driving Transformational Change within UN Agencies
Webinar | Online
About the Event
This presentation, organized by UNNESSA (UN Network for Evaluators in Sub-Saharan Africa), focuses on the importance of conducting SDG evaluations within UN agencies and how they can drive transformational change. It highlights recent evaluations conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in order to track its progress towards achieving SDG 6 and SDG 13 (clean water and sanitation, and climate action, respectively). The presentation demonstrates how SDG evaluations can disrupt and make UN's scope of work more ambitious by identifying gaps in programs and work. Overall, the presentation emphasizes the importance of SDG evaluations as a tool for challenging UN agencies to be more ambitious and innovative in their programming, and ultimately help to ensure that the SDGs are achieved by 2030.
Speakers
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Violeta Leiva | Evaluation Specialist | Violeta Leiva is an Evaluation Specialist at UNICEF. Violeta has advanced studies in Development and International Relations. She has several years of diversified experience working with the public and private sectors, as a consultant for international organizations. Excellent knowledge of policies, procedures, and instruments of United Nations and International Funds. She has directly managed a complex Environmental and Social portfolio of development projects for over 15 Million USD. Experienced in Partnership building, Resource Mobilization, Evaluation, and Project Management, Violeta is prepared to identify partner needs, design, monitor result-based programs, and perform analytical and evaluative tasks. Violeta has extensive experience working in Latin America & the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa. Fluent in German, French, English, Portuguese, Modern Greek and Spanish. |
| Olivier Cossee | Senior Evaluation Officer | Olivier Cossée is a senior evaluation officer with OED with with 30 years of experience in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of emergency and development assistance. He has worked in various management capacities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Mauritania. After working for OED in the early 2000s, when he specialized in the evaluation of emergency responses, he joined the UNDP Independent Evaluation Office until 2015, when he returned to OED. He holds a master’s degree in tropical agronomy from the Centre National d’Études Agronomiques des Régions Chaudes in Montpellier, France. |
| Luisa Belli | Evaluation Officer | Luisa Belli is an evaluation officer with OED where she coordinates planning, monitoring and implementation of project evaluations. She has a background in tropical and subtropical agriculture and rural sociology. She has more than 15 years of experience in the management, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes, of which 10 were spent in evaluations. Before joining OED, she worked as rural sociologist in several FAO and NGO-led participatory development projects. |
| Lis Pinero | Evaluation Analyst | Lis Pinero is an evaluation analyst supporting strategic evaluations. Lis has a technical background focusing on environmental and biological sciences, which she combines with evaluation skills to support the assessment of the environmental pillar of sustainable development. She previously worked in academia and the private sector and volunteers for NGOs in her free time. Lis holds a master’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Western Australia and a bachelor's degree from the University of Buenos Aires. |
Moderators
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Kathano | Evaluation and KM Specialist | Evaluation and KM Specialist at WFP |