Looking back on years of using the sustainability evaluation criterion, one has to ask - how well have we done? The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have brought renewed attention to sustainability.

Climate change adaptation practices are comprised of local knowledge and practices. These autonomous and planned interventions are designed to reduce risk and enhance the resilience of vulnerable households and communities with respect to their livelihoods and economic well-being.

Resilience is based on complex connections between social, environmental, and economic domains.

Urgency is a word often associated with climate change.

The Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF (IEO) recently organized two panel sessions at the

Policy analysts have a new addition to their toolbox, one that recognizes the importance of deep uncertainty and the resulting need for adaptive planning approaches. The use of adaptation pathways, as this new addition is known, supports the development of adaptive policies and programmes.

Are we ready, will we ever be? The conversation about professionalization in evaluation has a long history, and often raises much concern and interest.

As multilateral development banks, private sources and governments gear up to fill massive infrastructure gaps in Asia, we must not miss a unique opportunity.

We're all knowledge brokers. As social beings we naturally pass around information, filtering it and combining it with other bits of information that we think are relevant or interesting, then communicating that to others.

I recently had an informal meeting with the kind people of the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, who focus on environmental decision-making under u