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"We need to evaluate the nexus between environment and development. It cannot be one or the other. We need to understand the unintended consequences of any development intervention", affirmed Juha Ilari Uitto, during meeting at IFAD headquarters, in Rome.
GEF IEO Director Juha Uitto and Scott G. Chaplowe of the International Evaluation Academy recently contributed to the newest EvalSDGs Insight #14 on "Mainstreaming Environmental Sustainability in Evaluation."
The urgent environmental challenges of the 21st century starkly reveal the interdependencies that underpin the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the devastating consequences for…
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How is the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) using innovative methods for transformational change in its evaluations? Listen to Geeta Batra, GEF IEO Chief Evaluation Officer and Deputy Director, at EvalEdge, a podcast of the European Evaluation Society (EES). The podcast also draws on findings of the latest open access book co-edited by Geeta Batra and Juha Uitto, GEF IEO Director "…
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