Impact evaluations
Documents
The LORTA team produces resources that assess the impact of climate interventions, sharing knowledge and evidence with the international community.
Key documents
- IEU Brief: GCF PROJECTS: Who benefits? How much? How? When? How do we know?
- Funding proposal review checklist for measuring impact
- Portfolio Brief
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
- Synthesis Report Phase I 2018
- 2-page GEvalNote | Available in English, Spanish and Arabic*
- 4-page GEvalBrief | Available in English, Spanish and Arabic*
List of publications
Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar : Baseline Household Survey Report
March 2020
This report presents the findings of the baseline household survey for the project "Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar" supported by the Independent Evaluation Unit of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and implemented by Conservation International (CI).
Challenges in real-world impact evaluations: Some learning on costs and timeliness
May 2019
The international development community has witnessed a surge in theory-based evaluations that use counterfactuals, also called impact evaluations, to establish the attributable impact of development interventions. Amid this growing interest in using impact evaluations, challenges exist in using these methods for real-world programmes and investments. Real-world impact evaluations are studies that evaluate and measure the causal change of government, non-government or multilateral assistance...
The Impact of Cash Transfer Programs in Building Resilience: Insight from African Countries
October 2018
Building on the existing literature, this chapter synthesizes the key findings of the From Protection to Production (PtoP) project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which studies the impact of SCT programs on household economic decision making.
IEU Brief: GCF PROJECTS: Who benefits? How much? How? When? How do we know?
April 2018
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...
Funding Proposal Review Checklist for Measuring Impact
April 2018
This checklist is intended to serve Funding Proposal appraisal teams in determining whether proposed projects are constructed to credibly measure and report on the impact attributable to the GCF investment. It looks at three key areas to help determine a proposal’s impact evaluability.
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Behaviour and Design Lab
LORTA utilises some of the insights offered by the IEU’s Behaviour and Design Lab (BaD Lab) in terms of behavioural science approaches, including evaluating how behavioural interventions can enhance GCF investments.