Six years after the 1^st conference in Alexandria, the impacts of climate change had become increasingly visible, interest in the topic had peaked, and evaluation knowledge had increased substantively. The second international conference, co-organized by GEF IEO and Climate-Eval, attracted some 300 participants and built upon experiences from evaluations conducted by organizations such as the World Bank, Inter-American…

EvalPartners, the global movement to strengthen national evaluation capacities for equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluation systems, declared 2015 as the International year of Evaluation. Several key stakeholders, including the United Nations Evaluation Group and the OECD/DAC EvalNet, joined the movement.

2015 is a year of global transformation, in which the new Sustainable Development Goals will be framed. Social equity and gender equality will be central to ensure the realization of sustainable and…

Webinar on Evaluating Progress towards Market Change for GHG Emissions Reduction: GEF Support to Market Change in China, India, Mexico and Russia

On March 19, 2014, Aaron Zazueta, Chief Evaluation Officer of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office, presented a webinar on Evaluating Progress toward Market Change for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction: GEF Support to Market Change in China, India, Mexico and Russia. The webinar discussed methodological challenges, findings, and lessons of the Climate Change Mitigation Impact completed in October 2013. The evaluation…

The GEF Evaluation Office actively participated in the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) in Washington, DC. The Office organized a session on online evaluation communities and took part in sessions that discussed a variety of issues ranging from impact evaluations on climate change, use of on-line evaluation communities to affect learning, mixed-method evaluation approaches, evaluations of energy policy and natural resource management, and comprehensive evaluations…

Webinar on the Impact of GEF Support in the South China Sea and Adjacent Waters: Applying Complexity Theory in a Large-Scale Evaluation

On March 20, 2013, as part of a knowledge sharing series on the GEF Evaluation Office's Fifth Overall Performance Study, Aaron Zazueta, Chief Evaluation Officer, presented findings of the recently completed Impact Evaluation of GEF Support to International Waters in the South China Sea and Adjacent Areas, and demonstrated how complexity theory had been used to define the evaluative questions, as well as to enhance the range of…