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The Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) ensures the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is accountable and effective. It conducts independent evaluations of the GCF's activities to guarantee its accountability and...
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The IEU works with a range of partners. These include accredited entities, NDAs, universities, research institutes, government ministries, civil society organizations, multilateral and bilateral agencies,...
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Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Got a question about the IEU or its work? Below are some frequently asked questions and answers. If you don't see your question here, feel free to contact the IEU.
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Work plans
2024 work plan
At its thirty-seventh meeting in October 2023, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved a budget of USD 7,734,904 to fund the Independent Evaluation Unit’s (IEU) activities in 2024.
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Jobs
Jobs
The IEU offers a range of employment opportunities for professionals. Whether you’re a young graduate seeking your first internship, a seasoned professional looking for a short term consultancy, someone ready for a...
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DataLab
About the IEU DataLab
High-quality data is crucial in evaluations. The IEU invests in gathering both quantitative and qualitative data from various sources through its DataLab. The IEU DataLab provides high-quality data...
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Learning & working papers
Learning papers
The IEU engages with and contributes to debates on climate evaluation, low-emission pathways and climate-resilient development. The IEU Learning Paper Series encourages discussion on these topics and...
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Other publications
Other publications
IEU team members cooperate with their peers to produce research and studies on evaluation and climate change.
The IEU has prepared four summaries of joint papers with IEU partners:
Climate and Money...
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Managing the health risks of climate change
April's first lunch talk featured Dr. Kristie Ebi, Director of the Center for Health and Global Environment (CHanGE) at the University of Washington. Her talk emphasized the importance of considering climate change when...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
June 20 marks World Refugee Day
The Independent Evaluation Unit honours refugees around the globe and calls attention to the increasingly urgent issue of climate refugees in a new video. By altering weather patterns and causing environmental...
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Private investor engagement key to climate-resilient world
In the climate finance world, money goes not only to the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, but also to innovative, eco-friendly infrastructure projects that help the world reduce greenhouse gas...
Article > Interview 
Let's talk about evidence - behavioural insights to help us communicate
As the IEU’s communications intern, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to best disseminate the IEU’s high-quality findings from its evaluations of the Green Climate Fund.
Counter-intuitively, evidence is not...
Article > Blog 
Behavioral insights to help us communicate
How can we better communicate evidence and break down the barrier between science and people?
The IEU's Iben Hjorth explores this question in a new piece featured today in the Korea Times, pointing out ways in which...
Article > IEU in the news 
Evaluations and research during crisis?
Lenin once said, ‘There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.’
One of the unsung and first casualties of humanitarian crisis situations is the neglect of applied research:...
Article > IEU in the news 
Life in the time of COVID - A snapshot from the IEU
The current pandemic is probably one of the biggest challenges my generation has and will have faced during its lifetime (I am in my 20s by the way). While we are doing social distancing and in self-isolation, people...
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We must know what works in a crisis and what doesn't
An often-ignored casualty of the kind of crisis we currently face is a focus on evaluations and applied research. Research that can tell us what works, for whom, how much, why and under what circumstances. One of the...
Article > Blog 
Evaluation and the new reality of COVID-19
How are evaluators facing the new reality of COVID-19? The IEU's Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) sat down with the Global Landscapes Forum to share her thoughts on the pandemic. She explains what lessons the #IEU has learned and...
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Country ownership in times of international assistance - what are we learning?
The concept of ‘country ownership’ is a key attribute of all investments and projects that multilateral and international organizations have incorporated into their objectives and constitutions. The concept emerged as a...
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IEU in the News: Country ownership in times of international assistance - what are we learning?
What is country ownership? What are the key findings from the IEU's evaluation of the GCF's country ownership approach?
The IEU's Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) and Dr. Solomon Asfaw outline what you need to know in a new piece...
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The IEU's Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) and Cornelius Krüger win 'best paper' at Climate2020 online conference
The voters have spoken! Participants selected the IEU's paper submission for the Climate2020 online conference as 'best paper' in the climate finance category. The Climate 2020 online conference took place from March...
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The IEU's Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) debates the role of Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) at Australasian Aid Keynote
From February 17th to the 19th, the Australasian Aid Conference took place in Canberra, Australia. During the event, IEU's Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) served as a keynote panellist on a debate organized by Australian National...
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The IEU's Cornelius Krüger discusses the role of behavioural science in addressing the climate challenge in 'Climate Chats' podcast
This month, IEU's Cornelius Krüger was invited as a special guest on the popular 'Climate Chats' podcast. Cornelius discussed his research in behavioural science and how insights in the field can be used to address the...
Article > Podcast 
The IEU's Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) honored in list of '16 women restoring the earth'
On March 6, the Global Landscape Forum (GLF) announced its list of '16 women restoring the earth'. The list recognizes women that are making huge strides in their respective fields that are of vital importance to...
Article > News 
The IEU shares approach paper on assessment of the GCF's Simplified Approval Process (SAP)
The Simplified Approval Process (SAP) Pilot Scheme was approved by the Board with the objective to introduce simplifications (based on best practices) to the GCF project cycle for a particular set of projects: less than...
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A decade old, the world's largest climate fund receives its first pulse-check
Nearly a decade after the world’s largest climate fund, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), was established in 2010 under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the first comprehensive performance review of...
Article > Interview 
The IEU publishes approach paper on accreditation
The IEU announces the release of the approach paper on the independent synthesis of the GCF accreditation function.
The synthesis will examine:
the effectiveness of the accreditation process in supporting the...
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A moon-shot approach? What can the GCF learn from the example of frontier investments?
How can the GCF pursue ‘moon-shot’ investments and a different approach to country ownership? To answer this question, it is useful to look historically at the example of country-owned ‘frontier’ investments. These are...
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The IEU releases evaluation of the GCF's Environmental and Social Safeguards Management System
In his 1962 classic text, ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,’ Thomas Kuhn famously deconstructed paradigm shift and concluded that shifts in prevailing paradigms only occur when the world accumulates ‘anomalies’...
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