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How to Get People to Change for the Planet
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Installing solar panels, biking to work, switching to sustainable agriculture, buying clothes second-hand instead of new -- what do all these have in common? For one, these are all measures that could help save money and mitigate climate change.
Using geospatial tools to assess relevance of GEF integrated programs
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By Carlo Carugi, Senior Evaluation Officer, Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office
Not all MSMEs are created equal – lessons from a recent evaluation
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By Jeneen R. Garcia, Evaluation Officer, Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office
A gold mine of information: lessons from early GEF efforts to reduce mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining
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By Gabriel Sidman, Evaluation Officer, Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office
Incorporating environmental considerations into UNEG Member Agency Evaluations
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My recent work as consultant to the UNEG Working Group on Integrating Environmental and Social Impact into Evaluations (ESI) has shown that UNEG member evaluation offices face challenges in adequately evaluating interventions that are not primarily focused on
Evaluation of COVID-19 Impacts: Insights for near real-time monitoring
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When COVID-19 was discovered in Malaysia, it affected a GEF project supporting reduction in greenhouse emissions across building infrastructure in the health and hospitality sectors (UNIDO GEF ID:4878).
Evaluating Environment in International Development: New Open Access Edition
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We live in a rapidly changing world although we don’t always notice it as our lives unfold in the midst of these changes. Only when you think back, even only a few years, to a specific time and you compare how life was then, do you notice how different it is now.
Strengthening the Value of Evaluation in Energy Programs and Policies
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Energy efficiency has the capability to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Provisions to tap this resource must be central to climate policy to get the needed reductions, and to get them as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Averting a 'train wreck' - Taking stock of environmental consequences of development interventions
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Summary: IFAD was one of the pioneers in the UN system to recognize the need to evaluate the intended and unintended environmental consequences of development interventions.
Mainstreaming the environment into evaluations - can we walk the talk?
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A lot has been said about the importance of the environmental dimension in evaluations.