Juha I. Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF, conducted a presentation during the session on Evaluation Governance in the high level policy meeting Tracking Development Progress & Evaluating Development Partnerships in the Post 2015 Era. The session also…
Tracking Development Progress & Evaluating Development Partnerships
Geography 2050: Envisioning a Sustainable Planet
Juha I. Uitto, Director, the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF, moderated the plenary session "Protection, Management, and Restoration of Future Forests" at Geography 2050 held at Columbia University in New York, NY. The…
Webinar: The GEF CSO Network Evaluation
Networks operate in dynamic, complex and open environments in which changing responsibility flows from and around autonomous members. Since the establishment of Agenda 21, the increase in number and influence on sustainable development of civil society organization (CSO) networks worldwide has…
UNEG Webinar: Comprehensive Evaluation of the GEF - Topics, approaches and methodological innovations
Organized by UNDP Independent Evaluation Office in collaboration with UNEG, the webinar "Comprehensive evaluation of the GEF: Topics, approaches and methodological innovations" was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 from 12:30-1:30 pm. The webinar discussed the upcoming Sixth Overall Performance…
UNEG Webinar: Communications and Evaluation Use
Evaluation Use in the UN System: Conclusions from the Data
Stemming from the paper by the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) on Evaluation Use in the UN System: Conclusions from the Data, this webinar…
UN Climate Change Conference (COP22)
The Evaluation of the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) influences the COP22 guidance to the GEF.
The findings and conclusions Program Evaluation of the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) were welcomed by the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP22) in…
World Bank Group Geospatial Day
The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the GEF presented six case studies from the biodiversity, international waters, and land degradation focal areas of the GEF at the First Geospatial Day celebrated at the World Bank on 1 November 2016.
The case studies demonstrated how the IEO has…
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016
Jeneen R. Garcia, Evaluation Officer, represented the IEO of the GEF at the IUCN World Conservation Congress held in Hawaii from late August - early September 2016.
The IEO participated in two sessions:
- GEF…
Forum on Implementing Climate Change Policy Evaluation
On May 25, Juha Uitto was a key note speaker at the Forum on Implementing Climate Change Policy Evaluation convened by the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change in Mexico. In his speech, Mr. Uitto outlined progress and challenges in evaluation of environmental and climate change…
Webinar on Systematic Triangulation Applied to the Identification of Evaluation Findings
On May 15, 2014 from 8:30 am - 9:30 am EDT, Carlo Carugi, Senior Evaluation Officer and team leader of the country portfolio evaluation (CPE) team at the Global Environment Facility Inependent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO), presented a webinar on systematic triangulation as a mixed-method approach…