Every country has 2030 as the date for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Some are well on the way to meeting targets, others have further to go. In this new three-part mini-series, we explore how to evaluate progress against the goals. 

In episode one 'Adaptive evaluation: considering climate risks in theory and practice', IIED hosts a discussion about the principles, practice and challenges of considering climate risks in evaluation of programmes aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

This episode features Stefano D’Errico, head of monitoring, evaluation and learning in IIED's Strategy and Learning group; Emilie Beauchamp, senior researcher in IIED's Strategy and Learning group; Nick Brooks, adaptation specialist and director of Garama 3C; and Samson Machuka, director of the monitoring and evaluation department in the State Department for Planning and Statistics within the National Treasury and Planning of the Government of Kenya.

1. Adaptive evaluation: considering climate risks in theory and practice

In this episode, IIED’s climate diplomacy researcher Camilla More and senior climate finance researcher Sejal Patel discuss why so many countries missed the recent deadline for submitting their 2035 climate targets – and the implications for global climate action.

31. Country climate targets: another missed deadline

In this episode, IIED’s senior researcher Karen Wong-Pérez talks to IIED’s senior press and PR manager, Simon Cullen, about global progress towards gender justice and why the journey towards gender-just environmental action isn’t moving quickly enough.

32. Gender justice: why is progress so slow?

In this episode, IIED researcher Francesca Booker and Ritchel Cahilig from the Haribon Foundation talk about the critical role local leadership plays not only in restoring nature itself but also in conserving local culture, identity and communities too.

33. Locally-led nature restoration: critical for a sustainable future

This excerpt comes from REDAA’s webinar “Tackling the power and politics of locally led nature restoration”. This event examines how power and politics in South Asia and Southeast Asia, are- or are not - shaped to support, scale and sustain locally led action for nature restoration. Conversation lead, Anita Varghese, opens the discussion by asking whether we’re getting in right in terms of restoration governance. Who makes the decisions? Who shapes the policies? Whose priorities count?

Anita Varghese — Keystone Foundation, India | Who holds the power in nature restoration?

This excerpt comes from REDAA’s webinar "Tackling the power and politics of locally led nature restoration”. This event examines how power and politics in sub-Saharan Africa, are- or are not - shaped to support, scale and sustain locally led action for nature restoration. Lassana Koné, of the Forest Peoples Programme, discusses the tension between statutory and customary law in the Congo basin, highlighting why Indigenous right must be at the centre restoration initiatives.

Lassana Koné — Forest Peoples Programme, Congo Basin | Indigenous rights and legal frameworks

In this episode, principal researcher Ebony Holland talks to Simon Cullen about the importance of nature finance and the need for changes in practice to make sure money for nature resilience gets to Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

34. Nature finance: what’s being done and is it working?

In this episode, IIED executive director Tom Mitchell discusses revitalising a commitment to international development and in the process, getting money to where it is needed most and can be used to best effect – to the local level.

35. Time to reset the international development agenda

The focus is on food systems. The world is missing targets for addressing hunger and malnutrition while food systems contribute to nature loss and climate change. So how can sustainable food systems tackle those issues and also provide jobs, support economies and reduce poverty?

36. Solidarity, collaboration and justice – the future of food systems

IIED's mission is to build a fairer, more sustainable world, using evidence, action and influence in partnership with others. We link local priorities to global challenges and aim to deliver positive change on a global scale.

This channel will host IIED's mini podcast series on specific topics affecting our world.

1. Adaptive evaluation: considering climate risks in theory and practice

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