DAY 1: Tuesday 5th March, 2024
Time Light Breakfast
08:30-09:30

Plenary 1 - Setting the Stage: Theme of Integration

  • Moderator: Juha Uitto, GEF IEO
  • Ligia Noronha, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of UNEP
09:30-09:45 Coffee break
09:45-11:00 Parallel 1: - Food Security
  • Moderator: Indran Naidoo, FAO
Parallel 2: - Transformational Change
  • Moderator: Geeta Batra, GEF IEO
  • Ada Ocampo, IDEAS
  • Michael Robert Ward, CIF
  • Scott Chaplowe, IEAc
  • Stephan R. Wegner, World Bank
Parallel 3: - Systems Design Quest (IEAc Session)
  • Moderator: Weronika Felcis & Beverly Parsons, IEAc
11:15-12:30 Parallel 4: - Transforming Evaluation Systems to Mainstream Sustainability (Footprint Evaluation Session)
  • Moderator: Juha Uitto, GEF IEO
  • Jane Davidson, Real Evaluation
  • Patricia Rogers, Independent
  • Andy Rowe, ARCeconomics
Parallel 5: - Fragile Conflict Vulnerable (FCV)
  • Moderator: Carl Bruch, ELI
  • Amanda Woomer, Universalia
  • Luis Becerra-Valbuena, FAO
  • Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu, UNDP
Parallel 6: - Pollution, WASH, Water Management
  • Moderator: Frank Moser, Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat
  • Elke Johanna de Buhr, UNICEF
12:30-14:00 Lunch and Posters on Display
14:00-15:30 Plenary 2 - Science Informing Evaluation
  • Moderator: Geeta Batra, GEF IEO
  • Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair, UMich/UMD
  • Nik Sekhran, WWF
  • Gregory Nemet, University of Wisconsin-Madison
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-17:00 Parallel 7: - Nature-Based Solutions (NBS)
  • Moderator: Anupam Anand, GEF IEO
  • Garrett Kilroy, ADB
Parallel 8: - Sustainable Cities
  • Moderator: Neeraj Negi, GEF IEO
Parallel 9: - Socioeconomic Co-Benefits and Development Impacts
  • Moderator: Neha Sharma, CIF
17:30-19:30 Cocktail Posters on Display
DAY 2: Wednesday 6th March, 2024
Time Light Breakfast
08:30-09:30 Plenary 3 - Communities of Practice and Evaluation Networks


IEAc, GEI, IDEAS, UNEG, BetterEval, Earth-Eval, Eval Forward
09:45-10:45 Plenary 4 - Challenges in Environmental Finance
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Parallel 10: - Private sector Parallel 11: - Inclusion Parallel 12: - Mainstreaming ecosystem health, and equity lens into all evaluations (IEAc Session)
12:30-14:00 Lunch and Posters on Display
14:00-15:30 Plenary 5 - Climate Funds Plenary: What does it mean to evaluate sustainability?


Green Climate Fund, Global Environment Facility, Climate Investment Funds, Adaptation Fund
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:15 Parallel 13: - Adaptation and Climate Resilience   Parallel 14: - Climate Change Mitigation
16:15-16:30 Parallel 15: - Measuring Behavior Change   Parallel 16: - Approaches and Methods
16:30-18:00 Informal Discussions Posters on Display
DAY 3: Thursday 7th March, 2024
Time Light Breakfast
08:30-09:30 Plenary 6 - Transforming Evaluation Systems to Mainstream Sustainability: Country Perspectives
09:30-09:45 Coffee break
09:45-11:00 Parallel 17: - Decolonizing Evaluation Parallel 18: - Country-led Evaluations Parallel 19: - Institutional Learning - Integrating Sustainability
08:30-09:30 Closing Plenary 7 - What does all this mean for Evaluators and Evaluation?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
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