Every year, Earth Day gives us a chance to pause and think about how we’re taking care of the systems that support us—our land, water, air, and the people and communities connected to them. In 2025, that reflection feels especially important. We’re seeing more pressure on natural resources, and…
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Navigating the Cofinancing Puzzle: GEF's Strategies, Successes, and Challenges
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The Global Environment…
Empowering Communities: Evaluating Community Based Approaches (CBA) in the GEF
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"Community-based doesn't inherently mean community-led." This insight emerged as a recurring theme during our interviews with stakeholders in the GEF Partnership while evaluating community-based approaches. During early interviews, we encountered a significant challenge: the term 'community…
Happy Earth Day!!!
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Earth Day serves all of us as an annual reminder of the critical need for action to protect and preserve our environment. And you are here because you clearly care about the future! And you are here because you clearly believe that evaluation has a role to play. Yes, as evaluators, we have…
Enhancing Impact Through Learning: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility's Evaluation of Setbacks
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co-author Michael Woolcock
Acknowledgements: This blog is based on the evaluation “…
Evaluating Projects and Programs in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Violent Contexts
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- Ella Stack, Research Associate, Environmental Law Institute
- Amanda Woomer,…
How Can Science Inform Evaluation?
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co-author Katy O’Grady
The current environmental situation “requires us to apply transformational thinking to preserve the life support system of our planet,” said Rosina Bierbaum, plenary speaker and moderator of the conference’s session on how science can inform evaluation.…
Integrating Environmental and Socioeconomic Domains for Sustainability
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The world is facing a triple environmental crisis of climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem loss, and pollution. Inequality between and within countries is on the rise. While many formerly developing countries now have moved to the middle-income category, many others have fallen into…
There’s life in the desert
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Often neglected by donors and recipient countries alike as considered unproductive lands, drylands cover a significant portion (40 percent) of the Earth land surface and are home to over two billion people, many of whom are among the world poorest and most vulnerable populations. These regions…
"What" and "Why" of the New GEF Evaluation Guidelines
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The GEF Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) is introducing new evaluation guidelines that will redefine how program and project evaluations are conducted. Effective January 1, 2024, these comprehensive guidelines encompass GEF-funded programs, full-sized projects, and enabling activities.…