Author - Alok Srivastava | Published - 2018
To achieve SDGs by 2030, close watch over set targets is certainly a necessary requirement, given our experience with MDGs. As experience during MDGs clearly indicate that apart from monitoring, evaluation at regular periods of programmes and schemes aiming at different goals is a must to ensure that the country is on track and not far off from the set target. Evaluation gives insights and helps to identify gaps and reasons thereof between ‘desired’ and ‘achieved’ outputs and outcomes.