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 2020 4-page brief introduces decision makers to LORTA and its objectives. It describes in simple terms LORTA’s 2020 online design workshop, project selection criteria, new projects included in the LORTA portfolio during the year and their accredited entities, and progress in the existing portfolio.