Ensuring an adequate supply of clean water for people, livelihoods and ecosystems while also protecting against water-related shocks and stresses are the key components that make up water security. In the GEF, water security is woven into several focal areas, from transboundary water resource…
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Evaluation of GEF's Approach to Interventions in Water Security
Content Type: Evaluation
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Evaluation Grouping: Thematic
Strategic Country Cluster Evaluation (SCCE): GEF support to Drylands Countries
Content Type: Evaluation
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Evaluation Grouping: Country
Drylands cover over 40 percent of the earth's land surface and are home to more than two billion people, 90 percent of which reside in developing countries. Countries with a high share of drylands face comparable land-based environmental challenges including water scarcity, high climate…
Assessing Portfolio-Level Risk at the GEF
Content Type: Evaluation
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Evaluation Grouping: Performance, Institutional
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) aims to embrace more calculated risks in its efforts to achieve transformative environmental outcomes. Currently, the GEF portfolio has a low to moderate risk profile. The majority of projects in the portfolio are categorized as low-risk and have generally…
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Learning from Challenges in GEF Projects
Content Type: Evaluation
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Evaluation Grouping: Performance
The GEF and the GEF IEO commonly analyze program and project success factors, providing good practice examples and insights for future operations. However, evidence from programs and projects that are less successful is often overlooked. This is a missed opportunity: such a perspective can help…
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Strategic Country Cluster Evaluation (SCCE): Sahel and Sudan-Guinea Savanna biomes
Content Type: Evaluation
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Evaluation Grouping: Country
The African Biomes Strategic Country Cluster Evaluation (SCCE) covers GEF activities in 23 countries situated in two Sub-Saharan African biomes: the Sahel and the Sudan-Guinea Savanna. Selection of these two biomes is based on the countries' comparable land-based environmental challenges. These…
GEF Interventions in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector
Content Type: Evaluation
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Evaluation Grouping: Thematic
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has a long history of investing in interventions to solve the environmental and health issues associated with the artisanal small-scale gold mining industry (ASGM). The signing of the Minamata Convention on Mercury in 2013 prompted an increased investment by…
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GEF Support to Scaling up Impact
Content Type: Evaluation
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Evaluation Grouping: Performance
Scaling up is not new to the GEF and in the last decade, all GEF focal areas have been shifting from site-level pilot projects towards projects or programs implemented at higher scales. Based on a review of focal area strategies and interviews with the GEF partnership, the GEF has gradually…
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Chemicals and Waste (CW) Focal Area Study 2017
Content Type: Evaluation
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Evaluation Grouping: Thematic
This study is the first comprehensive study of the Chemicals and Waste (CW) focal area undertaken by the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), encompassing the GEF's grant funding for activities focused on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), ozone depleting…
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Ozone-Depleting Substances 2010
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Evaluation Grouping: Thematic
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Phase-Out of ODS in CEIT
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Evaluation Grouping: Thematic