Sustainability-inclusive evaluation: Why we need it and how to do it: A Footprint Evaluation Guide
Footprint Evaluation Initiative (2023), 62 pp.
"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)
1 Introduction, 3
2 Why it matters, 11
3 Concept evaluation to action, 16
4 Getting it on the agenda, 21
5 Know the place and nexus, 26
6 Identify and engage interests and knowledges, 31
7 Expand the theory of change, 39
8 Use approrpriate evidence, designs and reasoning, 50
Resources, 57
2 Why it matters, 11
3 Concept evaluation to action, 16
4 Getting it on the agenda, 21
5 Know the place and nexus, 26
6 Identify and engage interests and knowledges, 31
7 Expand the theory of change, 39
8 Use approrpriate evidence, designs and reasoning, 50
Resources, 57
