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To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the international community will need rigorous evidence about which programmes and policies are most effective in improving indicators related to the goals. The Development Evidence Portal (DEP), maintained by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), is a database that gathers such evidence for low- and middle-income countries, in the form of impact evaluations and systematic reviews. In this report, we analyse data from the DEP to answer the following questions: What is the state of the evidence base for the SDGs, and where are the gaps in the evidence? We provide an overview of the evidence base across the SDG agenda, followed by a series of dashboards summarising the state of the evidence for each of the 17 SDGs between 1990 and 2022.

• Engelbert, M., Z. Ravat , C. Yavuz, D. Menon,
  C. Grywatz, K. Wolf (2023), Half-Time for SDG Evidence Generation.
  3ie Working paper xx. New Delhi: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie).