The 9th African evaluation Association (AfrEA) International Conference "Accelerating Africa's Development: Strengthening National Evaluation Ecosystems" took place from March 11-15, 2019 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The conference was co-hosted by the Réseau Ivoirien de Suivi et d'Evaluation (RISE) and the Government of Cote D'Ivoire. The conference aimed to:

• Support evaluations that contribute to real and sustained development in Africa
• Promote Africa-rooted and Africa-led evaluation through sharing African evaluation perspectives
• Encourage the development and documentation of high quality evaluation practice and theory
• Support the establishment and growth of national evaluation associations or VOPEs
• Facilitate capacity building, networking and sharing of evaluation theories, techniques and tools among evaluators, policymakers, researchers and development specialists.

The GEF Indepedent Evaluation Office participated in the following sessions:

Climate Change Interventions: The Use of Evaluative Evidence for Sustainable Development: SDGs/Planning/Adaptation

Thursday, March 14 | Panel 2 on Climate Change, Adaptation, Vulnerability and Resilience: Evaluation and Learning

Chair: Svetlana Negroustoueva

Panelists: Carlo Carugi, Senior Evaluation Officer, GEF Independent Evaluation Office, Nega Sharma, Matthew Harris, and Detlev Puetz

Climate Change Interventions: The Use of Evaluative Evidence for Sustainable Development: Water, Agriculture and Energy 

Thursday, March 14 | Panel on Climate Knowledge in Theory and Practice

Chair: Carlo Carugi, Senior Evaluation Officer, GEF Independent Evaluation Office