Jeneen R. Garcia serves as a Senior Evaluation Officer at the GEF IEO, where she leads evaluations that span diverse focal areas and cross-cutting themes. Her work has included assessing multistakeholder partnerships, private sector engagement, environmental and socioeconomic synergies and trade-offs, scaling-up processes, behavior change, and policy coherence. She is dedicated to piloting innovative methodologies that bridge qualitative and quantitative approaches, while integrating natural sciences, social sciences, and communication design within the evaluation field.

Among Jeneen’s contributions are the development of conceptual frameworks and tools for evaluating impact within complex adaptive systems, such as the now-mainstreamed GEF Theory of Change Framework.

She also led the development of the GEF IEO’s first online training course on approaches and tools for environmental evaluation.

Before joining the GEF IEO, Jeneen worked on research, education, and multimedia communications initiatives supporting multistakeholder environmental governance and community-based natural resource management in her native Philippines. She also has significant experience as a freelance writer, editor, and photographer for various publications, and is a certified functional medicine health coach focused on root-cause analysis. Jeneen served as Program Co-Chair of the Systems in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (SETIG) of the American Evaluation Association for three years (2019-2021).