In the realm of environmental evaluation, 20 years is a significant milestone. It marks not just the passage of time but a journey filled with lessons, successes, and innovations. In this post, we celebrate the remarkable story of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), an institution that…
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20 Years of Impact: IEO's Journey of Environmental Accountability and Innovation
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How to Get People to Change for the Planet
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Installing solar panels, biking to work, switching to sustainable agriculture, buying clothes second-hand instead of new -- what do all these have in common? For one, these are all measures that could help save money and mitigate climate change. These also require individuals and institutions to…
Using geospatial tools to assess relevance of GEF integrated programs
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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established in 1992 to finance multiple international environmental conventions, with projects addressing one convention at a time. In 2014, increased awareness of the interconnectedness of today's environmental problems led the GEF to introduce an…
Not all MSMEs are created equal - lessons from a recent evaluation
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When it comes to making the private sector more environmentally sustainable, we don't usually think of the millions of small businesses—better known as micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)— that dominate private sector activity in developing markets.
In the 2021…
A gold mine of information: lessons from early GEF efforts to reduce mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining
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It was the early 2010s: excitement was growing for the idea of a new international convention to combat mercury emissions. The Global Environment Facility (GEF),…
There is no one solution to climate safe future
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COP26 is about to start in Scotland and thousands of government and civil society representatives, international organization and private sector types, scientists, journalists, and hangers-on are descending upon the city of Glasgow while the pandemic is still ongoing. In fact, the accommodations…
Evaluation of COVID-19 Impacts: Insights for near real-time monitoring
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By: Madeleine McKinnon, Consultant, GEF IEO
When COVID-19 was discovered in Malaysia, it affected a GEF project supporting reduction in greenhouse emissions across building infrastructure in the health and hospitality sectors (UNIDO GEF ID:4878). Site visits to industrial…
Evaluating Environment in International Development: New Open Access Edition
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We live in a rapidly changing world although we don't always notice it as our lives unfold in the midst of these changes. Only when you think back, even only a few years, to a specific time and you compare how life was then, do you notice how different it is now. I had this epiphany when I…
Integrating environmental and social impact into evaluations
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Blog co-author: David Todd
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the attendant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) all recognize the close interlinkages of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability. The pandemic that we're living through demonstrates…
Piloting Post-Completion: How do you measure real sustainability?
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Project sustainability- the continuation of benefits after project support has ended- receives a lot of attention in the GEF partnership, and rightly so. Creating lasting benefits is the ultimate goal of development work, and a higher bar to reach than delivering on planned project outcomes. But…