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)…
GEF Results-Based Management (RBM): Agency Self-Evaluation and the GEF Portal
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,…
Formative Evaluation of the GEF Integrated Approach to address the Drivers of Environmental Degradation
The GEF introduced the integrated approach in 2014, building on its long and evolving history on integration. This major reform aimed to address the main drivers of global environmental degradation and deliver multiple benefits across multilateral environmental agreements using the GEF…
GEF Institutional Policies and Engagement
Since inception, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been explicit about the importance of involving stakeholders, initially described as "the public", in GEF-financed interventions. This is stated in the original GEF Instrument and reflected in a series of policies, guidance, and…
GEF Engagement with Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has a long history of supporting micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). As the GEF has shifted into more integrated approaches, it has also increasingly engaged MSMEs not only as a source of innovation and as beneficiaries, but also as a partner in…
GEF Support to Innovation: Findings and Lessons
Since the creation of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as a pilot program in 1991, there has been an expectation that the GEF would be an innovative institution and will use innovation to maximize its impact on global environmental benefits. More recently, the GEF2020 Strategy and GEF-7…
Third Joint GEF-UNDP Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme (SGP) 2021
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…
Joint Summary of the Chairs - GEF Council Meeting 60
LDCF SCCF Council Meeting 30
In line with the health and safety measures applied by most countries in response to COVID-19, the 30th LDCF/SCCF Council Meeting will be held virtually with an agenda that covered essential and time sensitive issues only.
The GEF Independent Evaluation Office presented the Work Program…