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Programs combating Illegal Wildlife Trade are instrumental in controlling and preventing pandemics
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The current COVID-19 pandemic is a zoonosis- a disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from animals to humans and can be caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, or unconventional agents.
Evaluating the Impact of Environmental Interventions during a Global Quarantine
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Evaluating Environmental Peacebuilding: Difficult but Necessary
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When you first hear the phrase "environmental peacebuilding," you may think that these two words are not directly linked. Think again. Many conflicts around the world affect and are affected by, at least indirectly, the environment and natural resources.
The Prague Global Assembly 2019 from the perspective of the Climate Change ITIG
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Conferences are a wonderful event for professionals and working groups. There is time to network, up-date on the newest trends in various fields of expertice, discuss and exchange. New inspiration and motivation is found and spread.
Learning, networking, sharing all in one place: the wonders of Communities of Practice
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The communities of practice Earth-Eval (hosted by the GEF Independent Evaluation Office) and EvalForward (hosted by the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD and WFP) presented at the 2019 IDEAS Global Assembly and Thir
Are We Bigger Yet? A Behavioral Approach to Assessing Scaling-Up
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As program designers and implementers, how do we make sure our intervention will scale up? As program evaluators, how do we know if something is going to scale up?
UNDP Evaluation to support the “leaving no one behind” agenda: insights from the UNDP NEC Conference 2019
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This blog was originally published on the Evalforward website by Serdar Bayryyev, Senior Evaluation Officer, FAO; and Rena
Want to scale up? Change-proof your program! Lessons from the GEF (PART 2)
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When we at the GEF IEO looked at how impact was scaled up in GEF-supported interventions, many of the interviewees used terms such as “magic moment”, “luck” or “perfect storm” when referring to how scaling-up happened “spontaneously” through serendipitous circumstances, even when the project itse
Want to scale up? Change-proof your program! Lessons from the GEF (PART 1)
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Change is the only constant, we all learn sooner or later. But what to do when political and economic changes threaten the success of your carefully-implemented program?
What is Safe Monitoring and Evaluation Practice in the 21st Century?
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Monitoring and evaluation practice can do harm. It can harm: