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…
Strategic Country Cluster Evaluation (SCCE): Lower Mekong River Basin Ecosystem
Water Security Technical Document - Technical Documents
APR 2023 Behavioral Change Approach Paper
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…
CIEWS 2024 Approach Paper
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,…
Conference 2024 - Flyer
More Responsive Evaluations Needed to Understand the Nexus Between Environment and Development
"We need to evaluate the nexus between environment and development. It cannot be one or the other. We need to understand the unintended consequences of any development intervention", affirmed Juha Ilari Uitto, during…
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…
Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Development
The Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF IEO) organized a panel on the Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Development during the Annual General Meeting of the United Nations Evaluation Group. The session delved into the critical role the environment plays in…