Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Indigenous Peoples (IP2024)

  • Status Completed in
    January 2025

This evaluation assessed the relevance and effectiveness of the GCF’s approach to and consideration of Indigenous Peoples. It provided inputs to inform the review of the GCF’s Indigenous Peoples Policy and considered related reviews. The key stakeholders included the Board of the GCF, Secretariat, GCF beneficiaries and Indigenous Peoples groups, as well as NDAs, AEs, and other entities in the GCF ecosystem. The evaluation was adopted by the GCF Board at its 41st Board Meeting in February 2025.

Evaluation Documents

  • The evaluation was commissioned by the Board in IEU Work Plan and Budget for 2024 at B.37. 
  • Terms of Reference
  • The approach paper prepared by the evaluation team during the inception stage describes the evaluation's background, methods and approaches, evaluation questions, timelines and deliverables.
  • The evaluation team further developed an approach brief to provide a one-page summary of the approach paper of the evaluation, including the evaluation’s context, purpose and objectives, scope, methods and timeline.

LIVESTREAM: Forty-first meeting of the GCF Board (B.41) | Agenda 16.A. Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Indigenous Peoples

  • The GCF Secretariat provided the management response to the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Indigenous Peoples. 
  • In Decision B.41/11, the GCF Board took note of the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Indigenous Peoples. 
  • The Board requested the IEU to submit a management action report to the Board no later than one year following the adoption of the decision.