Not in a hundred years has the world been hit by a pandemic this deadly. This means that most of us –whether project designer, implementer or evaluator—have no previous experience on how to cope with a crisis of this scale, nor anticipated it when assessing and preparing against risks to project…
When Life Gives You Lemons…or a Pandemic - Finding Opportunity in Disaster
Lessons for COVID-19 from GEF IEO Evaluations
Statement from the IEO Director
- On March 23, 2020
COVID-19 - Statement from the IEO Director
by Juha Uitto, Director
Reports and Documents of Interest
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Evaluation must rise to the challenge of pandemic in the nexus of nature and humanity
When you first hear the phrase "environmental peacebuilding," you may think that these two words are not directly linked. Think again. Many conflicts around the world affect and are affected by, at least indirectly, the environment and natural resources. For example, the extraction of minerals…
Programs combating Illegal Wildlife Trade are instrumental in controlling and preventing pandemics
The current COVID-19 pandemic is a zoonosis- a disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from animals to humans and can be caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, or unconventional agents. Infection is spread through direct and indirect contact, through vectors, and…
Third Professional Peer Review of the Independent Evaluation Function of the Global Environment Facility and IEO Action Plan
Evaluating the Impact of Environmental Interventions during a Global Quarantine
by Geeta Batra, Dan Runfola, Heather Baier
Introduction -
The COVID-19 crisis has turned impact evaluators' lives upside down: suddenly, we can't visit the sites we are responsible for, interview participants in person, or otherwise conduct assessments as…
Evaluating environmental peacebuilding: Difficult but necessary
By: Amanda Woomer, Associate Director, MEAL, Habitat for Humanity International
When you first hear the phrase "environmental peacebuilding," you may think that these two words are not directly linked. Think again. Many conflicts around the world affect and are affected by, at…