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The Annual Performance Report (APR) of the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) presents a comprehensive assessment of the performance of GEF activities, processes, and the factors that influence performance. It also evaluates the quality of monitoring and…

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) aims to embrace more calculated risks in its efforts to achieve transformative environmental outcomes. Currently, the GEF portfolio has a low to moderate risk profile. The majority of projects in the portfolio are categorized as low-risk and have generally…

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)…

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…

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…

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,…

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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 ways, including…