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Why waste precious resources on evaluation?
In too many discussions, evaluations are discussed as either a sledgehammer tool, or as a millstone around the neck of programme managers. Evaluations are all too often seen as wasting money, resources and precious time...
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Understanding what works in forest-based mitigation
Conservation, restoration and improved land management activities could potentially provide more than one-third of the cost-effective climate change mitigation needed to keep global warming below 2°C by 2030, with...
Article > Blog 
What Makes Us Happy
The world celebrates the UN International Day of Happiness every 20th of March. At first glance, dedicating a day to happiness does seem idle. But when you stop and think about it, the pursuit of happiness is at the...
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Welcome to the New Website of Green Climate Fund’s Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU)
Welcome to the new website of Green Climate Fund's Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU).
IEU is excited about its website! Through this, we'll keep you informed about:
New occurrences including policies and plans for IEU...
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The GCF Board Approves IEU’s 2018 Work Plan and Budget
Last week, GCF's Board approved IEU's 2018 Work Plan and Budget for an overall amount of $2,953,867. An overview of the approved activities for the year includes:
Staffing: IEU will have eight staff and a full...
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Evaluations
The IEU has a mandate for both discharging an accountability function and supporting a learning function. These are central to the GCF being a learning organization as laid out in its Governing Instrument...
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Forward-looking Performance Review of the GCF
At its 21st meeting, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) requested the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) to undertake the Performance Review of the Fund. It requested that the Forward-looking Performance Review (...
Evaluation > Performance review
Discussion of the Forward-looking Performance Review at the 23rd Meeting of the GCF Board
The Board of the Green Climate Fund discusses the Forward-looking Performance Review.
Video > IEU video
Forward-looking Performance Review of the GCF: Has the governing instrument translated into an adequate structure for GCF to operationalize its mandate?
Video > IEU video
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Transformational Change: the Challenge of a Brave New World
Most multilateral development agencies aim for change that is ‘transformational’ or that shifts the ‘paradigm’. In many ways transformation has become the holy grail in development assistance, with most development and...
Document > Learning paper
Becoming bigger, better, smarter: A summary of the evaluability of Green Climate Fund proposals
The goal of the GCF is to support a paradigm shift towards low-carbon, high-resilience pathways. It is thus important to understand if such a paradigm shift is occurring, and, if so, to measure the extent to which the...
Document > Working paper
Complexity, climate change and evaluation
As governments and multilateral institutions establish projects and programmes to mitigate and adapt to climate change, a question arises as to how we can determine their effectiveness. Impact evaluations have emerged...
Document > Working paper
How can the GCF be faster, better, smarter?
Findings from the Forward-looking Performance Review of the GCF.
Document > Evaluation document
Independent Review recommends changes to the Green Climate Fund
The world’s largest funding body for climate change actions, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), has been urged in an independent Review to adopt several changes if it is to remain at the forefront of supporting and financing...
Document > Evaluation document
Multimedia
Multimedia
Throughout the year, IEU releases a wealth of new material for our online audience including a variety of videos, infographics, and podcasts.
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Evaluation policy
Overview
In the terms of reference for the Independent Evaluation Unit, the GCF Board requested the IEU to develop the Evaluation Policy for the GCF. In developing the policy, the IEU undertook extensive consultations....
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The Impact of Cash Transfer Programs in Building Resilience: Insight from African Countries
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...
Document > Other publication
Climate Resilience Pathways of Rural Households. Evidence from Ethiopia
This paper explores the resilience capacity of rural Ethiopian households after the drought shock occurred in 2011.
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Challenges in real-world impact evaluations: Some learning on costs and timeliness
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...
Document > Working paper
Distributional impacts of soil erosion on agricultural productivity and welfare in Malawi
We investigate the economic distributional effects of soil loss in Malawi, where erosion deprives rural households of the natural capital necessary to boost agricultural production and lifts food security.
Document > Other publication
Going the Last Mile: Behavioural Science and Investments in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (presented at Climate2020 Conference)
The purpose of this paper is to showcase how insights from behavioural science can be a potential solution for this last mile problem. It applies insights from ‘nudges’ and ‘boosting’ for a sample of ten projects by the...
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Good will hunting: Challenges of theory-based impact evaluations for climate investments in a multilateral setting
In 2018, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) initiated a multi-year Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) programme to understand what works in climate interventions, for whom, how much and why. LORTA supports...
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Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environment
Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are...
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Soil and nutrients loss in Malawi: an economic assessment
This report analyses the economic impact of both soil and nutrient loss in Malawi with new countryrepresentative data on soil and nutrients loss indicators collected through field surveys, merged with detailed climatic...
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Collective Action on Forest Governance: An Institutional Analysis of the Cambodian Community Forest System
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Evaluating advocacy: an exploration of evidence and tools to understand what works and why
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Document > Other publication
The wicked cases of education and climate change: the promise and challenge of theory-based impact evaluations
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