Events
Events
Tracking Development Progress & Evaluating Development Partnerships
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Juha I. Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF, conducted a presentation during the session on Evaluation Governance in the high level policy meeting Tracking Development Progress & Evaluating Development Partnerships in the Post 2015 Era. The session also features presentations by Richard Levin, Director-General of the National School of Government in Pretoria, and by Cristina Magro, Partner, Rio Academy: Independent Consultant, International Development Association, Belo Horizonte.
Geography 2050: Envisioning a Sustainable Planet
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Juha I. Uitto, Director, the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF, moderated the plenary session "Protection, Management, and Restoration of Future Forests" at Geography 2050 held at Columbia University in New York, NY. The 2016 Fall Synopsium of the American Geographical Society is the third in multi-year strategic dialogue about vital trends that will reshape geography of our planet by 2050. The list of speakers include:
Webinar: The GEF CSO Network Evaluation
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Networks operate in dynamic, complex and open environments in which changing responsibility flows from and around autonomous members. Since the establishment of Agenda 21, the increase in number and influence on sustainable development of civil society organization (CSO) networks worldwide has allowed for their formation and capacity building to be the subject of greater scrutiny.
UNEG Webinar: Comprehensive Evaluation of the GEF - Topics, approaches and methodological innovations
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Organized by UNDP Independent Evaluation Office in collaboration with UNEG, the webinar "Comprehensive evaluation of the GEF: Topics, approaches and methodological innovations" was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 from 12:30-1:30 pm. The webinar discussed the upcoming Sixth Overall Performance Study (OPS6), a comprehensive evaluation containing around twenty evaluations and sub-studies focusing on GEF performance, results, organizational and institutional issues.
Speaker: Juha I. Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF.
UNEG Webinar: Communications and Evaluation Use
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Evaluation Use in the UN System: Conclusions from the Data
Stemming from the paper by the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) on Evaluation Use in the UN System: Conclusions from the Data, this webinar discussed how communications can improve engagement with evaluation users, and how evaluator can improve communications to increase evaluation use.
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