Co-designing an Evidence-Informed Evaluation Framework for Sustainability Interventions in São Paulo State Municipalities: Empowering Communities of Evidence

Municipalities in Brazil face challenges in managing sustainability interventions due to resource constraints, complex interdependencies, and competing policy demands. These issues lead to inefficient decision-making and inadequate evaluation practices. This project aims to co-design an evidence-informed evaluation framework (EF) and toolkits that strengthens municipal capacity for using evidence in policy design, implementation, and evaluation. Our initiative will enable contextualised international knowledge mobilisation via leveraging the combined expertise of the University of Portsmouth and Portsmouth City Council alongside University of São Paulo and critical local stakeholders` insights to adapt proven approaches to the context of waste management São Paulo State, responsible for one third of Brazilian GDP. Through stakeholder dialogues, targeted training sessions, and knowledge brokering activities, the project will systematically address existing constraints. The co-designed EF will be contextually capable of initialising organisational change as well as of empowering communities of evidence.