Sustainability-inclusive evaluation: Practical ways to address the environment alongside gender and equity in all evaluations.

Environmental sustainability is critically important, yet most evaluations do not include it unless it is a stated goal of the intervention.This session explored why environmental sustainability must be mainstreamed in all evaluations and what it would take to make that happen.

Topics covered included:

1. Sustainability-inclusive approaches to applying the OECD-DAC criteria
2. Building environmental sustainability into key evaluation questions
3. Integrating evaluative judgments on environmental sustainability and equity using a two-dimensional rubric matrix

The session also shared practical tools, principles, and frameworks for evaluation teams, along with a preview of new tools Footprint Evaluation plans to develop for the food security, agriculture, and rural development sectors.

It was a valuable opportunity to learn from experts and strengthen evaluation practices.