Blog Posts

Blog Posts

Blog Posts

We collect knowledge-rich blogs from evaluators and persons both within and without our community. These blogs offer writers the opportunity to narrate in less formal writing styles their personal evaluation experiences, capture evaluation findings in easy-to-understand ways while engaging the community with other relevant knowledge.

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Why Climate-Eval Must be Strengthened

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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A few weeks ago, Climate-Eval online community of practice registered the membership of Guene Herve Jean-louis, consultant and researcher working with Burkina Faso's National Institute of Statist

Introducing New Moderator of Climate-Eval

Rob D. Van Den Berg
International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)
President
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David Akana is the new moderator of Climate-Eval. He joins the Evaluation office of GEF with more than 15 years experience in environmental and climate change reportage with specific focus on climate change adaptation in Africa.

Cutting Down Trees for Emergency Cash: Why Access to Credit Can Make PES Programs More Effective

Seema Jayachandran
Northwestern University
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Seema Jayachandran, Associate Professor of Economics Northwestern University, Affiliated Professor and Health Co-Chair, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), writes a follow-up blog on PES programs.

CDM & the Poor

Jo Dirix
Free University of Brussels
Wouter Peeters
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In our previous post we touched upon two design characteristics of the EU ETS - i.e. grandfathering of emission entitlements and offsetting - that we deem ethically troublesome.

Evaluating a Payments for Ecosystem Services program in Uganda

Seema Jayachandran
Northwestern University
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Seema Jayachandran, Associate Professor of Economics Northwestern University, Affiliated Professor and Health Co-Chair, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL),  discusses the effectiveness of payments for ecosystems (PES) for reducing deforestation in developing countries.

Bidding farewell to Climate-Eval

Andrew Zubiri
Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
Content Moderator
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Today officially marks my last day at the GEF EO, and subsequently as moderator of the Climate-Eval community of practice. My two-year term came and went so quickly.

We need an even stronger EU Climate Policy

Jo Dirix
Free University of Brussels
Wouter Peeters
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Global leaders are postponing the negotiations on a new binding emissions reduction treaty until 2015, coming into effect no sooner than 2020.

The Challenge of Evaluation

Ram Khanal
Evaluator
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Ram Chandra Khanal discusses the challenges in the evaluation of climate change based on the climate change adaptation session of the Evaluation Conclave 2013 held on February 26 to March 1 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Does Credit Affect Deforestation? Evidence from a Rural Credit Policy in the Brazilian Amazon

Romero Rocha
Climate Policy Initiative
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Romero Rocha, a senior analyst at Climate Policy Initiative, summarizes an assessment of the impact of Brazil's rural credit p

Climate change: why is learning and acting so hard?

Lawrence Haddad
Institute of Development Studies
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Lawrence Haddad outlines issues on knowledge and learning in the context of development and climate change.