On 4 December 2019, UNICEF and EVALSDGs, in partnership with GEF, Green Climate Fund, IEO, and Earth-Eval organized a webinar on Unintended Consequences and Trade-offs: Evaluating in the Nexus of Environment, Climate and Development.

• Moderator: Evan Green (Canadian Evaluation Society)
• Speakers: Jyotsna Puri (Green Climate Fund) and Juha Ilari Uitto (Global Environment Facility)

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The GEF Independent Evaluation Office together with the Earth-Eval Community of Practice organized the Third International Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development in collaboration with IDEAS Global Assembly. The conference gathered the participants in Prague, Czech Republic, for 2 days of workshops and 3 days of intensive discussions during the conference. The following sessions were directly linked to the 3rd International Conference:

EvalSDGs and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have teamed up to launch a free e-learning course on Evaluation and the 2030 Agenda. The course will be two weeks long (2-13 September). The deadline to register is 31 August 2019.

Learning objectives of the course include:

The Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI), together with the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), hosted the 2019 Asian Evaluation Week. The theme was "Quality Evaluation for Better Results: Local, National, Regional Perspectives". Juha Uitto (Director, GEF IEO) organized a session on evaluative evidence to tackle environmental and development challenges in SIDS.

FAO Office of Evaluation is launching an evaluation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) programme and is looking for experts in evaluation knowledgeable of issues related to Governance of tenure to join the evaluation team. To apply, click here.

The closing date for receiving applications is 31 Aug 2019.