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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…

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 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…

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,…

Annual Performance Report (APR) 2021 presents an evaluation of the outcomes, sustainability, quality of implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of 1,806 completed GEF projects. The report also analyzes factors affecting project performance; progress toward achieving GEF-5 replenishment…

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Although the GEF is not focused on climate change adaptation, there has been growing recognition that the effects of climate change impact the GEF's ability to achieve and sustain global environmental benefits. The GEF has addressed these effects in different…

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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has supported sustainable forest management (SFM) for almost 30 years, from the GEF Pilot onwards. This is the first comprehensive evaluation of GEF support to SFM, which assesses the outcomes and performance of GEF's diverse…

The GEF IEO has undertaken several studies and reviews to understand the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on GEF's support. This evaluation is a continuation of those efforts and has two parts:

• Part 1 will review GEF's response to the pandemic, identify lessons and assess the extent these…

Knowledge is an important resource of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that supports its strategic objectives to address global environmental concerns. Over the years, the GEF facilitated generation and sharing of knowledge through its projects and programs, as well as through its corporate…

The GEF Annual Performance Report (APR) prepared by the GEF Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO) provides an overview of the performance of GEF activities and processes, key factors that may affect performance, and the quality of Monitoring and Evaluations systems (M&E). Along with…