"The guidance is intended to support people who are planning, managing or conducting evaluations, especially within national and sub-national governments, to include environmental sustainability, even when this is not a stated objective of the program or policy. Environmental sustainability includes ... consideration of climate change, biodiversity, pollution, over-exploitation of natural resources, invasive species, and deforestation. The guidance sets out ways to embed environmental sustainability in evaluation in ways that are feasible and useful. Usefulness includes direct, instrumental use, to inform specific decisions and actions. It also includes wider conceptual use - understanding the value of natural systems, and the coupling between environment and equity." (Page 4) more

"The Footprint Evaluation Initiative aims to ensure that all evaluations consider environmental sustainability, regardless of whether this is an explicit objective of the project, policy or program being evaluated. This report describes four ‘thought experiments’ undertaken as part of this proje ... ct. The thought experiments explored whether it is relevant, feasible and useful to consider environmental sustainability in evaluation, how this might be done, what challenges and issues it raises, and what is needed to address these. This report aims to document and share what we learned during this process, provide concrete examples of how environmental sustainability might be considered in an evaluation, and share details of our thought experiment process that others might find helpful." (Summary) more