The multi-year Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) programme keeps track of the impact of GCF investments. Its goal is to assist GCF projects measure their impact in lowering greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing resilience to climate change, and if so, by how much. LORTA’s assistance includes, among other things, building and clarifying theories of change, co-building real-time and longer term measurement systems and helping projects use quantitative and qualitative approaches to analysing data.

This 2019 4-page brief introduces decision makers to LORTA and its objectives. It describes in simple terms LORTA’s 2019 design workshop in Manheim, new projects and their managing entities, project selection criteria and a list of evaluation questions and designs.