The week kicks off with 2 days of pre-conference workshops, followed by an opening plenary jointly with IDEAS where a high-level keynote speech will be delivered.

Building upon the 1st conference in Cairo in 2008 and the 2nd conference in Washington DC in 2014, the 3rd conference provides an opportunity to continue our discussion on successful approaches and methodologies for evaluating the environment. And to expand our scope to cover new topics such as natural resources management, biodiversity conservation, as well as climate change mitigation, adaptation, and more.

The book Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of major international organizations supporting climate action in developing countries.

To hear thoughts from the editors of the book Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development, watch the videos on our YouTube channel.

Juha I. Uitto (Director of Global Environmental Facility Independent Evaluation Office), Naoko Ishii (CEO of Global Environmental Facility) and Uma Lele (Senior Evaluation Officer) present and discuss the results of the conference. Follow here the presentation and learn from the lessons learned of the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development.

Under the umbrella of the Climate-Eval Community of Practice, the conference brought evaluation professionals, academics, policymakers and other stakeholders from developed and developing countries together with the purpose of fostering the exchange of ideas and methods to evaluate climate change and sustainable development.

Caroline Heider (Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group) moderated a session on lessons learned from evaluating climate finance. Ken Chomitz (Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group) gave the key note address, while Rob D. van den Berg (International Development Evaluation Association), Mark Wagner (ICF International) and Dorte Verner (Inter-American Development Bank) were discussants.

Under the umbrella of the Climate-Eval Community of Practice, the conference brought evaluation professionals, academics, policymakers and other stakeholders from developed and developing countries together with the purpose of fostering the exchange of ideas and methods to evaluate climate change and sustainable development.