This study is the first attempt to provide an account of health co-benefits associated with GEF interventions. Human health issues are part of the greater nexus of the environmental agenda and the work done at the GEF, spanning all focal areas. Due to limitations in scope, the study delves into…
Innovation Approach Paper
Work Program and Budget of the Independent Evaluation Office: May 2020
Seventh Comprehensive Evaluation of the GEF (OPS7) - Approach Paper
OPS7 Approach Paper
CW Study 2017 Article - Health Co-Benefits of GEF Chemicals and Waste Focal Area
Article - The Use of Remote Sensing Analysis for Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem
When Life Gives You Lemons…or a Pandemic - Finding Opportunity in Disaster
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…
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…