Year
Document Type
Focal Area
Country
OPS
Annual Performance Report (APR) 1998 (Project Performance Report)
The Project Performance Report (PPR), prepared by the GEF Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, presents the results of the 1998 Project Implementation Review (PIR), a monitoring process based upon reporting by the GEF Implementing Agencies (IAs) on all projects being implemented for at least one year as of June 1998. The PIR covers 119 projects. This PPR also draws on information about the performance of GEF programs from evaluations and other studies.
English
Annual Performance Report (APR) 1997 (Project Implementation Review)
The Project Performance Report (PPR) presents the results of the 1997 Project Implementation Review (PIR), a monitoring process based upon reporting by the GEF Implementing Agencies (IAs) on all projects being implemented for at least one year as of June 1997. The PIR covers 105 projects. This PPR also draws on information about the performance of GEF programs from evaluations and other studies.
English
OPS3 Progressing Toward Environmental Results
Third Overall Performance Study of the GEF (OPS3)
Progressing Toward Environmental Results
The team for the OPS3, which took place between September 2004 and June 2005, was charged with evaluating the
English
Annual Performance Report (APR) 2004
This is the first GEF Annual Performance Report prepared by the GEF Evaluation Office. It represents the first step towards an independent assessment of the performance of the GEF’s portfolio and focuses mainly on elapsed times in the preparation of projects, the quality of terminal evaluations submitted at the end of project implementation, and the quality of monitoring and evaluation systems within projects. This APR does not include a chapter on results but focuses more on process issues.
English
Program Study on International Waters 2005
The Program Study on International Waters 2005 had three major objectives: an assessment of the impacts and results of the IW Focal Area to the protection of transboundary water ecosystems; an assessment of the approaches, strategies, and tools by which results were achieved; and identification of lessons learned and formulation of recommendations to improve GEF IW operations.
English
Climate Change Program Study 2004
The climate change program study evaluates performance and results, and how results were achieved. Given the size of the GEF portfolio and the need to identify overall lessons, this study focuses on outcomes and impacts of groups of mitigation projects, rather than detailed or immediate project outputs.
English
Biodiversity Program Study 2004
The objective of the Biodiversity Program Study is to provide the GEF Council, the GEF Secretariat and its Biodiversity Team, the GEF Biodiversity Task Force, and the general biodiversity community with an assessment of how the GEF Biodiversity Program is performing and recommendations on how to continue its development. In addition, the study provides information on how the GEF implements its biodiversity focal area, discusses the difficulties in measuring achievements and impacts in this focal area, and presents some ideas on the way forward.
English
Program Study on International Waters 2002
This report presents the main findings of the GEF International Waters Program Study, conducted from August 2000 to February 2001.
The study was undertaken by a team comprising an independent lead consultant, representatives of GEF’s monitoring and evaluation unit (M&E), GEF secretariat, the three GEF implementing agencies (UNDP, UNEP, and the World Bank), and the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP).
English
Review of Financial Arrangements in GEF Support to Biodiversity Projects
This study was prepared as part of the Global Environment Facility Monitoring and Evaluation (GEF M&E) work program for 2002. The rationale for the study emerged from the findings and conclusions of several earlier evaluations that suggested biodiversity initiatives supported by the GEF needed to become financially self-sufficient after completing the GEF-funded phase.
English
GEF Energy-Efficient Product Portfolio
From 1991 to 2000, the GEF approved eight projects designed to stimulate markets for energy-efficient products—lights, refrigerators, industrial boilers, and building chillers—in 12 developing and transitional countries. Project costs for this portfolio are about half a billion dollars, with GEF contributions of over $90 million leveraging additional co-financing of $430 million from other sources.
English