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Evaluating the Role of the Private Sector in a Changing Climate
Baljit Wadhwa
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In the run-up towards the GEF's seventh replenishment period (GEF-7 starting in 2018), the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF undertook an evaluation focused on the GEF's private sector engagement. The study analyzes the environmental finance landscape, assesses the GEF's private sector…
Is The Paris Agreement on Shaky Legs? How to Ensure Successful Implementation
Jonas Schoenefeld
Institute for Housing and Environment
Scientist
Andy Jordan
University of East Anglia- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Professor
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What is needed to make the Paris Agreement a success? This blog post focuses on one of the most central but underappreciated elements – the periodic reviews of progress. States must of course make ambitious and credible contributions in the first place. But if there is no system to ensure that…
Program evaluations of the LDCF and the SCCF
Dennis Bours
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For those of you who haven't heard of the LDCF and SCCF before; the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) is a climate fund, established during the UNFCCC COP meeting in Marrakech in 2001, that focuses on - among other…
Evaluation of gender mainstreaming in the GEF - Part 2
Dennis Bours
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The previous blog post was the first one of two posts discussing the recent…
Evaluation of gender mainstreaming in the GEF - Part 1
Dennis Bours
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Over the past year the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) has worked on an…
Summer reading: Evaluating climate change action for sustainable development
Lee Cando
GEF Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO)
Consultant
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Recently, Climate-Eval and the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) hosted a webinar to launch the book, Evaluating Climate Change Action for…
Strengthening Evaluation Capacity in Organisations to Improve Adaptation Outcomes
Nathalie Beaulieu
Concert-Eau
Independent Consultant
Guy Jobbins
Aliou Diouf
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In 2016, the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) program invited us to prepare a working paper to share lessons learned while…
Rethinking Evaluation - Sustaining a Focus on Sustainability
Caroline Heider
Independent
Director General
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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. Although the DAC evaluation framework includes sustainability as one of its five criteria…
Adaptation strategies in the Gandaki River Basin of Nepal: Need for Transformational change
Bimal Raj Regmi
ICIMOD
Governance Specialist
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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.
People…
Overcoming Challenges in a Shifting Landscape - Building Resilience
Caroline Heider
Independent
Director General
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Resilience is based on complex connections between social, environmental, and economic domains.
Building resilience has and continues to be central to the human endeavor. Extreme events have caused harm, shock, and suffering for centuries. At the same time, they have stimulated innovation…