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Learning from Challenges in GEF Projects

Learning Challenges
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Published | Last updated on: June 23, 2025
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…

Evaluation: English

Evaluation of GEF's Approach to Interventions in Water Security

Water Security
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Published | Last updated on: August 26, 2024
Evaluation Grouping: Thematic

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…

Evaluation: Volume 1 , Volume 2

Strategic Country Cluster Evaluation (SCCE): GEF support to Drylands Countries

SCCE Drylands
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Published | Last updated on: August 22, 2024
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…

Evaluation: Volume 1 , Volume 2

Assessing Portfolio-Level Risk at the GEF

Portfolio-Level Risk
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Unedited | Last updated on: June 3, 2024
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…

Evaluation: English

Strategic Country Cluster Evaluation (SCCE): Sahel and Sudan-Guinea Savanna biomes

SCCE Biomes
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Published | Last updated on: February 17, 2022
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…

Evaluation: Volume 1 , Volume 2

GEF Interventions in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector

Gold
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Published | Last updated on: January 25, 2022
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…

Evaluation: English

GEF Support to Scaling up Impact

Scaling Up
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Published | Last updated on: November 25, 2021
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…

Evaluation: English

Chemicals and Waste (CW) Focal Area Study 2017

CW Study 2017
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Published | Last updated on: November 28, 2018
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…

Evaluation: English

Ozone-Depleting Substances 2010

Ozone Depleting Substances 2010
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Published | Last updated on: September 1, 2010
Evaluation Grouping: Thematic
Evaluation: English

Phase-Out of ODS in CEIT

Phase Out ODS CEIT
Content Type: Evaluation
Status: Published | Last updated on: October 1, 2009
Evaluation Grouping: Thematic
Evaluation: Volume 1 , Volume 2

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