IEU hosts 2025 LORTA Design Workshop in Songdo

The Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) held its Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) Design Workshop from 14–17 October 2025 at IBS Tower in Songdo, Incheon.

The annual workshop brought together six GCF project teams from Malawi (FP244), Burundi (SAP045), Rwanda (FP245), Senegal (FP262), Zambia (FP072), and Pakistan (SAP047) for hands-on sessions on designing high-quality impact evaluations. Participants engaged with IEU experts and external partners to strengthen their capacity to measure results and learn from implementation in real time.

Across four days, the workshop combined technical design sessions, group clinics, and peer learning discussions. It supported Accredited Entities and project teams in refining their evaluation questions, sampling strategies, and data collection plans for climate-resilient interventions.

As part of the workshop, the IEU hosted a Learning Talk titled “Adaptation and Impact: A Dialogue on Lessons from IEU’s Evaluations.” The session featured Michell Dong, Susumu Yoshida, and Marco D’Errico, who shared findings and reflections from IEU’s impact evaluations in Madagascar (FP026), Belize (FP101), and Guatemala (FP087). Secretariat colleagues joined the visiting project teams for an open dialogue on the practical challenges, opportunities, and lessons for measuring and learning from impact across the GCF portfolio.

The LORTA programme supports GCF projects in designing and implementing impact evaluations from the start, generating evidence on what works, for whom, and under what conditions. Since 2018, LORTA has partnered with more than 30 projects in over 40 countries.