Evaluation and Learning for International Sustainable Forest Initiatives

The evaluation department of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, together with the evaluation units of the Global Environment Facility, the United Nation Environment Programme and the Green Climate Fund, in collaboration with the secretariat for the Government of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative, organized an international learning event on evaluating international forest initiatives with particular attention to links between evaluations and decision-making at policy and project levels. The two-day conference aimed to cover key questions on the extent that evalautions are informing decision making and how the relevance and contribution of evaluations can be enhanced.