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…
Guidelines for Reporting on Completed Enabling Activities 2023
Presentation for GEF Council Meeting 69
Review of the GEF Management Action Record (MAR)
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…
Strategic Country Cluster Evaluation (SCCE): Lower Mekong River Basin Ecosystem
This is the first strategic country cluster evaluation(SCCE) in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMRB) conducted by the IEO to understand the impact of the GEF’s support in addressing the challenges related to land degradation, hydrological connectivity, climate impacts, and biodiversity losses…
The Role of Medium-Size Projects (MSP) in the GEF Partnership 2020
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…
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,…
GEF Annual Performance Report (APR) 2021
Annual Performance Report (APR) 2021 presents an evaluation of the outcomes, sustainability, quality of implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of 1,806 completed GEF projects. The report also analyzes factors affecting project performance; progress toward achieving GEF-5 replenishment…
Resilience, Climate Change Adaptation, and Climate Risks in the GEF Trust Fund
Overview
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…
GEF Support to Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)
Overview
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has supported sustainable forest management (SFM) for almost 30 years, from the GEF Pilot onwards. This is the first comprehensive evaluation of GEF support to SFM, which assesses the outcomes and performance of GEF's diverse portfolio of…
Evaluation of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on GEF Activities
The GEF IEO has undertaken several studies and reviews to understand the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on GEF's support. This evaluation is a continuation of those efforts and has two parts:
- Part 1 will review GEF's response to the pandemic, identify lessons and assess the extent these…