This evaluation assesses the effectiveness, relevance, coherence, and results of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) supported Global Wildlife Program (GWP). It examines the program's performance in supporting wildlife conservation efforts through ongoing and recently completed GWP projects.…
Evaluation of the Global Wildlife Program (GWP)
LDCF/SCCF Annual Evaluation Report (AER) 2023
The LDCF/SCCF Annual Evaluation Report (AER) 2023 provides a comprehensive overview of the performance of completed LDCF/SCCF projects since the AER 2021. It assesses project outcomes, sustainability, monitoring and evaluation quality, and gender considerations; and presents the Management…
Evaluation of GEF Support in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
The GEF Independent Evaluation Office is collaborating with the Environmental Law Institute to assess GEF projects and programs in fragile and conflict-affected situations—in short, to determine whether and how GEF interventions are conflict-sensitive, and the implications thereof. This study…
GEF Results-Based Management (RBM): Agency Self-Evaluation and the GEF Portal
The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) regularly evaluates different aspects of the GEF results-based management (RBM). This report brings together evidence from two of these evaluations: (1) the Evaluation of GEF Agency Self-Evaluation Systems and (2)…
Guidelines for Conducting Terminal Evaluations of Full‑Size Projects 2023
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Evaluation Policy (2019) requires GEF Agencies to evaluate GEF-financed projects at completion. A terminal evaluation provides a comprehensive and systematic account of project performance, factors that affect performance, implementation, and project…
Guidelines for Conducting Program Evaluation 2023
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Evaluation Policy (2019) requires that the lead GEF Agency will evaluate a program at the end of its implementation to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of its performance and the factors that affect performance. Program evaluations are expected…
Guidelines for Reporting on Completed Enabling Activities 2023
An enabling activity is a project for the preparation of a plan, strategy, or report to fulfill commitments under the relevant Global Environment Facility (GEF) environmental convention. The GEF Evaluation Policy (2019) requires that GEF-financed projects be evaluated at the end of…
Review of the GEF Management Action Record (MAR)
Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the factors that affect the level of adoption and follow-up of IEO evaluation recommendations. It provides early feedback on management responses, including action plans, to evaluations presented by the IEO since…
The Role of Medium-Size Projects (MSP) in the GEF Partnership 2020
The GEF medium-sized project (MSP) modality has provided an expedited mechanism for execution of smaller projects by simplifying processing steps together with review and approval procedures, thereby shortening the project cycle relative to GEF full-sized projects. MSPs were able to address the…
GEF Country Support Program (CSP)
The Country Support Program (CSP) is a GEF-funded corporate program with the objective to assist GEF stakeholders increase and maintain capacity necessary to navigate the GEF landscape and work more effectively with GEF financing in a way that increase country ownership. It is a GEF-executed,…