On this Earth Day 2024, the GEF IEO organized two duplicate sessions to honor our planet and evaluation’s key role in environmental protection. From assessing conservation to understanding systemic impacts, evaluators drive change. Let’s be good stewards of our planet.
Happy Earth Day!!!
Earth Day serves all of us as an annual reminder of the critical need for action to protect and preserve our environment. And you are here because you clearly care about the future! And you are here because you clearly believe that evaluation has a role to play. Yes, as evaluators, we have…
Enhancing Impact Through Learning: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility's Evaluation of Setbacks
co-author Michael Woolcock
Acknowledgements: This blog is based on the evaluation “…
IEO Newsletter April 2024 - New Director
Latest news and development from the GEF Independent Evaluation Office: click here to read the full issue
Earth Day Evaluation Declaration
Environmental, Social and Economic Sustainability in Evaluations
On this Earth Day 2024, we invite you to join colleagues, networks and organizations worldwide in declaring our commitment to include context-specific environmental, social, and economic sustainability…
Evaluating Projects and Programs in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Violent Contexts
Blog Autors
- Ella Stack, Research Associate, Environmental Law Institute
- Amanda Woomer,…
Global Declaration on Evaluation for Transformational Change
How Can Science Inform Evaluation?
co-author Katy O’Grady
The current environmental situation “requires us to apply transformational thinking to preserve the life support system of our planet,” said Rosina Bierbaum, plenary speaker and moderator of the conference’s session on how science can inform evaluation.…
Integrating Environmental and Socioeconomic Domains for Sustainability
The world is facing a triple environmental crisis of climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem loss, and pollution. Inequality between and within countries is on the rise. While many formerly developing countries now have moved to the middle-income category, many others have fallen into…
4th Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development
Integrating Environmental and Socioeconomic Domains for Sustainability
Building on the success of its previous three Conferences, and as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, the GEF Independent Evaluation Office is…