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…
Third Joint GEF-UNDP Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme (SGP) 2021
Third Joint GEF-UNDP Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme
Evaluation of the Country Support Program (CSP)
Learning from GEF Support in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
Webinar on Learning from GEF Support in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations organized by the Environment, Fragility, and Conflict Community of Practice of the World Bank. The Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF presented its Evaluation of GEF…
Evaluating Environment in International Development: New Open Access Edition
We live in a rapidly changing world although we don't always notice it as our lives unfold in the midst of these changes. Only when you think back, even only a few years, to a specific time and you compare how life was then, do you notice how different it is now. I had this epiphany when I…
2021 CES Conference
The Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF is a sponsor of the 2021 Canadian Evaluation Society conference scheduled from May 9 - 14 with workshops starting April 30. The conference theme is centered on Evaluation Utilization:…
MSME Audit Trail - Comments for the Main Report
Article - Evaluating Environment in International Development - 2nd Edition
How effective are governments, aid agencies, and civil society organizations in addressing pressing environmental issues? Is evaluation equipped to help decision makers identify, design, implement, and track sustainable development interventions? Can it help accelerate progress towards the…
Agenda for CES 2021
The GEF celebrates Earth-Day by marking the first day of the GEF-8 replenishment process
The GEF-8 replenishment meeting began with a presentation by the IEO, which was well received with particular interest in integration, innovation, and private sector engagement. A report on key findings from completed and ongoing IEO evaluations was prepared to inform negotiations.
The…