The GEF created the Small Grants Programme (SGP) in 1992 with the explicit aim of developing community-led and -owned strategies and technologies for reducing threats to the global environment—notably in connection with biodiversity loss, mitigating climate change, land degradation and…
Third Joint GEF-UNDP Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme (SGP) 2021
Evaluation of GEF Support to High GEF Recipient Countries
Among the most prominent middle-income countries in terms of their population and GDP, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa together represent 19% of the global GDP. Over the last two decades these countries have become increasingly important global economic and geopolitical actors.…
Review of the GEF Terminal Evaluation Validation Process
Third Professional Peer Review of the GEF Evaluation Function
The Professional Peer Review of the Evaluation Function is conducted in line with the Framework for Professional Peer Reviews of Evaluation Functions in Multilateral Organizations, and the Good Practice Standards of the Evaluation Co-operation Group.
This document sets out the key…
Evaluation of GEF Interventions in International Waters (IW): Freshwater and Fisheries
Non-Grant Instrument (NGI)
Within the context of GEF programming, a non-grant instrument may be understood as a mechanism to provide financing for activities that have a potential to generate financial reflows for the financer, irrespective of whether such reflows materialize. Cumulatively, GEF has provided a financing of…
An Evaluative Approach to Assessing GEF's Additionality
Since its inception in 1992, the GEF has been at the forefront of leveraging local investments to achieve global impact. Yet. accounting for the GEF's additionality - additional benefits that are attributable to the GEF - has remained a challenge.
Despite modifications and clarifications…
Annual Performance Report (APR) 2019 - Transportation
The annual performance report (APR) provides an update on performance of the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) portfolio of completed projects. It reports on project outcomes, the likelihood of sustainability of project outcomes, the quality of project implementation and execution, co-…
Evaluation of GEF Support to Mainstreaming Biodiversity (BD) 2018
This is the first stand-alone evaluation of the Global Environment Facility's (GEF's) support to mainstreaming biodiversity interventions. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the overall performance and effectiveness of GEF biodiversity mainstreaming projects drawing on the portfolio and…
Strategic Country Cluster Evaluation (SCCE): Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
The strategic country cluster evaluation (SCCE) of small island developing states (SIDS) covers 39 SIDS in the AIMS (Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea), Caribbean, and Pacific regions. The choice to evaluate the SIDS as a strategic cluster is based on their shared…