Here you’ll find information about upcoming and past events hosted or supported by the GEF IEO. Our events include workshops, webinars, conferences, and consultations designed to share knowledge, promote learning, and improve the impact of environmental projects worldwide.

These gatherings bring together experts, policymakers, partners, and stakeholders to discuss evaluation findings, best practices, and new approaches for advancing global environmental goals. Whether you’re a practitioner, researcher, or interested in how the GEF supports a healthier planet, our events offer valuable opportunities to engage, learn, and collaborate.

Stay connected to discover how we’re working together to evaluate and strengthen efforts for a sustainable future.

Measuring Environmental Impacts with Geospatial Data
Geoquery 2017

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Washington DC, USA

Environmental projects benefit from the geospatial information, with both targeting and impact evaluation activities able to take advantage of a wide variety of global datasets that examine land cover change, vegetative density, and biodiversity.

This session presented a few recent case-studies conducted by the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility with AidData leveraging spatial information, as well as introduce an online tool. The session also included a brief tutorial illustrating how to use GeoQuery, and an…

Conference on Evaluation of the Sustainable Development Goals
RELAC 2017
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Guanajuato, Mexico

The regional evaluation networks ReLAC, REDLACME and the global association of evaluators IDEAS organized a Joint Conference on Evaluation for the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference had a special emphasis on transforming life through global and regional partnerships, with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. The conference discussed and made progress on evaluation approaches, methodologies, institutional frameworks and learning from monitoring and evaluation evidence. The focus was on the global commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the…

American Evaluation Association (AEA) 2017
AEA 2017
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Washington DC, USA

Staff members of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office participated in various sessions at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Conference in early November. See information below:

Gender, M&E and Environmental Programming in Climate Finance Institutions - Learning What Works and How (Session #2773)
GEF IEO Presenters: Dennis Bours, Evaluation Officer; Juha I Uitto, Director
Wednesday, November 8 from 6:15 pm -7:15 pm
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Leverging geospatial science for tracking the SDGs through measurement and…

International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPPEC) 2017
IEPPEC 2017
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Bangkok, Thailand

The IEPPEC Conference was held in Bangkok, Thailand from November 1-2, 2017.

  • November 1st: Juha Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF, took part in panel soapbox session on the Sixth Comprehensive Evaluation of the GEF (OPS6)
  • November 2nd: 7Uitto also participated in the session on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policies, Indicators, and Evaluations
National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) Conference 2017
NEC 2017
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Istanbul, Turkey

The UNDP IEO and the Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS co-hosted with the Government of Turkey, the 2017 NEC Conference in Istanbul from 16 to 20 October 2017. The theme of the Conference was People, Planet and Progress in the SDG Era.

Juha I. Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF, spoke at the high-level plenary People and the planet: Is the environment being left behind? What are evaluations telling us? on October 19, 2017. The panel included Jyotsna Puri,…