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LORTA Synthesis Report 2023
This document provides a report of the key activities of the LORTA Programme for 2023. It is Annex 5 of a report of the IEU's key activities for the period of January to December 2023, which reports on the IEU outputs...
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LORTA Synthesis Report 2021
This document provides a report of the key activities of the LORTA Programme for 2021.
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LORTA Synthesis Report 2020
This document provides a report of the key activities of the LORTA Programme for 2020.
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LORTA Synthesis Report 2019
This document provides a report of the key activities of the LORTA Programme for 2019 - Projects.
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IEU Brief: GCF PROJECTS: Who benefits? How much? How? When? How do we know?
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...
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Funding Proposal Review Checklist for Measuring Impact
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...
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LORTA Synthesis Report 2018
This document provides a report of the key activities of the LORTA Programme for 2018 - Phase I.
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LORTA
LORTA
The multi-year Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) programme uses impact evaluation techniques —a specific type of evaluation based on causal inference—to help GCF projects understand which...
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About LORTA
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Evaluation Policy provides that the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) will be responsible for guiding, assisting and advising on real-time impact assessments/ evaluations, such...
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Projects
Projects
The LORTA team uses impact evaluation techniques to help project teams understand which activities are working, which are most efficient and which approaches to scale up. The team looks at specific learning...
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Outreach
Outreach
The LORTA team engages in a number of outreach activities to strengthen the capacity of accredited entities, implementing partners and project staff in assessing the impact of their interventions, as well as to...
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Resources
Resources
The LORTA team issues a variety of publications to help project teams understand which activities are working, which are most efficient and which approaches to scale up. Find all the latest publications from...
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Latest Publications
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Evaluations
Investment Framework Final Report
RPSP Executive Summary
RPSP Final Report
Investment Framework Evaluation Approach Brief
Energy Evaluation Approach Brief
Impact Evaluations
LORTA Portfolio...
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Final report of the Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund's Energy Sector Portfolio and Approach
The evaluation assesses whether and the extent to which GCF approaches and investments in the energy sector are effective in contributing to the objectives of the UNFCCC and other global agendas. It examines the GCF’s...
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IEU Learning Talk: Results-based Payments—What are they? What makes them work?
Summary
In 2020, the IEU took stock of the evidence on the effectiveness of results-based payments using a systematic, multisectoral search of the literature. The evidence review found there is potential for much...
Event > IEU talk
[Approach Paper] Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Approach to and Protection of Whistleblowers and Witnesses
Board decision B.BM-2018/21 paragraph (a) adopted the Policy on the Protection of Whistleblowers and Witnesses (hereafter referred to as “the Policy”). The purpose of the Policy is to empower anyone covered by its...
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United Nations Evaluation Group EvalWeek 2024
The IEU will take part at the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) EvalWeek 2024 taking place in hybrid form from 29 January - 2 February in Malaga, Spain.
The event will include five Professional Development Seminars...
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Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Approach to and Protection of Whistleblowers and Witnesses
The 2024 Board-approved workplan of the Independent Evaluation Unit outlines that the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Whistleblowers and Witnesses is one of the four evaluations conducted by IEU this...
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Approach Brief: PPWW2024
This brief summarises the approach paper for the Green Climate Fund's Policy on the Protection of Whistleblowers and Witnesses, including the evaluation’s context, purpose and objectives, scope, methods and timeline.
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IEU Brief No. 4 - 2023
Mitigation and adaptation interventions are striving to have transformational effects. This evidence review operationalizes transformational change using three measurable criteria:
A large depth of change
A large scale...
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IEU Brief No. 5 - 2023
This brief provides a summary of the key findings from the GCF-IEU and ILO’s realist review on just transition. This review is the first to provide a rigorous and precise realist summary of the contexts, mechanisms,...
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IEU Brief No. 1- 2024
Based on a rigorous protocol and companion evidence gap map, our systematic review conducts meta-analyses of water sector interventions in four areas: built infrastructure, nature-based options, institutional...
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Evidence review: Water
Overview
Global water resources are severely affected by the changing climate threatening water security goals. However, our understanding of the impact of key interventions, particularly in coastal zones and certain...
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GEvalBrief 15
This 4-page note summarizes the key findings and recommendations of the Independent Synthesis of Direct Access in the Green Climate Fund.
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Independent Synthesis of Direct Access in the Green Climate Fund
The GCF is mandated to provide simplified and improved access to funding, including direct access, basing its activities on a country-driven approach. In its Updated Strategic Plan for 2020-2023, the GCF also sets out...
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Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Sector Portfolio and Approach
This evaluation of the energy sector will cover a wide geographic area of operations of the GCF with themes covering the relevance, efficiency, suitability, effectiveness, and innovativeness of GCF’s portfolio in the...
Evaluation > Portfolio
Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Investment Framework
This evaluation will look at the overarching questions of how effective and fit-for-purpose the GCF’s investment framework, accompanying tools, criteria, and guidelines are in fulfilling the Fund’s strategic goals and...
Evaluation > Thematic
GEvalBrief 17
This 4-page brief summarizes the key findings and conclusions of the Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Sector Portfolio and Approach.
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