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If I could time travel: does access to credit help the decision to adapt to climate change in developing countries?
... instruments. Humankind has long fantasized with the idea of time travel as a means to anticipate and deal with ... in our gap-map [1], which will be published soon by the IEU and DEval. In our recent meta-analysis report [2] to ... Torrente (forthcoming, 2020), Access to credit as a determinant of autonomous adaptation to climate change: A ...
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Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment
In 2018, the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) started the multi-year ... (LORTA) programme. The goal is to strengthen the capacity of accredited entities, implementing partners and project ...
Evaluation > Thematic
What can the Green Climate Fund learn about innovation from institutional economics: Lessons for multilaterals.
The GCF was set up as a consequence of the Paris climate negotiations to be an operating ... performance of the Fund , the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) noted that a significant portion of the Fund’s ... that have been ‘accredited’ to the Fund (see the IEU’s new accreditation evaluation here ). This is ...
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Often late and costs a pretty penny: do impact evaluations meet the opportunity window?
We have witnessed an increase in the number of impact evaluations of development programmes in the past ... answer is ‘it depends’! As we explore in a recent IEU working paper , the answers depend on where impact ... to consider impact evaluations (consider, for example, the IEU’s LORTA programme ). Costs of conducting real-world ...
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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 addressing health-related ...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
REDD+: A global effort to mitigate climate change and protect forests
... Land Use at the Green Climate Fund, provides an overview of REDD+ and its importance in fighting climate change. The ... key points on forest degradation and the relationship of forests to CO2 levels. His presentation then includes a discussion of the significance of financing REDD+ projects and its ...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
Temporal trends in effect sizes: causes, detection and policy implications
Elena Kulinskaya from the School of Computing Science, University of East Anglia, discusses how rapid temporal changes in ... real changes. The presentation also examines the importance of regularly updating previous meta-analyses and, if needed, ...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
Policy options to manage climate risk & food insecurity: Current realities, future potential
... and sustain poverty and food insecurity in rural regions of the developing world. Dr. Solomon Asfaw examines the utility of policy instruments such as cash transfers, weather index ... in mitigating the increasingly deleterious impacts of climate risk on poverty and food security. Full ...
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Impact evaluation of climate investment to support Protected Areas
Aaron Zazueta is a former Chief Evaluation Officer for the Global Environment Facility's Independent Evaluation Office where he led a global evaluation of the impact of Protected Areas on biodiversity. This Talk ...
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The marriage of private funds and institutional investors for an impactful climate investment
Mr. Sergio Pombo, GCF's Head of Private Equity Funds, examines concerns about the gap ... climate investment demand and the limited availability of funding channels. Institutional investors manage USD 120 ... Full video Pictures 1 / 37 Previous Next Republic of Korea Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea The marriage of ...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
The Geospatial Revolution in Programme Evaluation: Data, Methods, Tools and Applications
Dr. Bradley Parks, Executive Director of AidData, provides an overview of Geospatial Impact Evaluations (GIEs) methods and tools ... control trials, making it possible for a large number of programmes to undergo a rigorous impact evaluation with a ...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
Climate + Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH): Developing resilience-building solutions
Dr. David Molden, Director General of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ... cooperation are essential. Full video Republic of Korea Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea Climate + Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH): ...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
Spotlight: The Green Climate Fund's Adaptation Portfolio
The Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Adaptation Portfolio and Approach completed ... behind the evaluation and learn more about the key findings of our report. This evaluation was started in January 2020 ...
Video > IEU video
Independent Synthesis of Direct Access in the Green Climate Fund
... synthesis will examine the efficiency and effectiveness of direct access within the GCF. The evaluation will be delivered by the end of 2022. DA2022 Independent Synthesis of Direct Access in the Green Climate Fund ...
Evaluation > Programmatic
Effectiveness of Climate Change Mitigation Interventions in the Private Sector in Developing Countries - A Synthetic Review
... map on the same topic, it provides a detailed description of the 32 studies that met the strict inclusion criteria, ... obtained in the studies and provide a critical appraisal of the quality of the evidence. The review’s results show that the ...
Document > Learning paper
Final report on the Independent evaluation of the relevance and effectiveness of the Green Climate Fund's investments in the Least Developed Countries
... been relevant and effective in reducing the vulnerability of local communities in LDCs and of their livelihoods to the effects of climate change, and whether these impacts are likely to ...
Document > Evaluation report
Evidence review: Transformational change
... investments. The evidence gap maps will inform the scope of a subsequent systematic review. For the purpose of our review, we operationalize transformational change in the following manner: A large depth of change: Transformational change requires a sizeable ...
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Greening North Korea - An opportunity for the GCF?
... watershed management and soil erosion. Today, the role of forests as a critical precondition for the world’s ... with the Park Chung-Hee administration in the 1960s, a long-term successful reforestation campaign began with the help ... follow him on Twitter @BernhardSeliger You can follow the IEU @GCF_Eval #IEUblog Also, be sure to check out the ...
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Spotlight: Independent Evaluation of the GCF's Environmental and Social Safeguards
... performance and co-benefits are key to the mandate of the GCF and its environmental and social policy (ESP). ... managing potential adverse environmental and social impacts of GCF-funded projects. The second was to assess the extent ... behind the evaluation and learn more about the key findings of our report. Read the full report here. This video was ...
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Rapid assessment of the Green Climate Fund’s Request for Proposals Modality
... the private sector. An independent and rapid assessment of this modality will examine the efficiency and effectiveness of the RFP programmes, including the four pilots. This ... to the Board in June 2021. RFP2021 Rapid assessment of the Green Climate Fund’s Request for Proposals Modality ...
Evaluation > Programmatic
Independent evaluation of the relevance and effectiveness of the GCF's investments in the LDCs
... GHGs stock globally but experience disproportionate impacts of its consequences. The evaluation asks whether the ... have been effective in reducing the vulnerability of local communities and their local livelihoods to the effects of climate change, and whether these impacts are likely to ...
Evaluation > Portfolio
Evidence Review on Results-Based Payments: Evidence Gap Map and Intervention Heat Map
... evidence review presents a systematic, multisectoral search of publications in the academic and grey literature. The ... between 2000 and 2020 that assessed the effectiveness of one or more RBP interventions using experimental, ... beneficiaries’ adaptive capacity and to ensure long-term sustainability of project impacts, and (ii) increase ...
Document > Learning paper
Evidence Gap Map and Intervention Heat Map of Climate Change Mitigation Interventions in the Private Sector in Developing Countries
According to a strict set of inclusion and exclusion criteria, the evidence gap map ... of studies that examine employment co-benefits and intermediary outcomes such as behavioural change. We also ... studies (albeit spread out over a range of mitigation, intermediate and co-impact outcome areas). Investments in ...
Document > Learning paper
Challenges in real-world impact evaluations: Some learning on costs and timeliness
... impact evaluations, to establish the attributable impact of development interventions. Amid this growing interest in ... are studies that evaluate and measure the causal change of government, non-government or multilateral assistance ... requirements for implementation and the ambition of policy influence. To illustrate constraints and ...
Document > Working paper
My pop moments from COP25
... be resting and thinking about the next COP at Glasgow. Half of that has occurred: we are all thinking about COP26 in Glasgow. But with a sense of disquiet. COP25 has been marked significantly by chaos ... moment : No one knows. (Spoiler alert: Its one thing the IEU will be working on in 2020.) ‘ Climate value is ...
Article > Blog 
Structure determines behavior. We need insights from Behavioral Economics to save the planet.
... this, in January 2019, Madhuri Dass Woudenberg, Head of Communications of the Global Development Network (GDN), ... Jyotsna Puri (Jo), Head of the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), on the knowledge ... Behavioral insights are telling us that ‘structure determines behavior.’ We need to change the choice ...
Article > Interview 
북한의 생태회복 – 녹색기후기금에겐 기회일까?
... This guest blog was produced in conjunction with the IEU Virtual Talk on climate change and biodiversity, held in ... the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Independent Evaluation Unit of the Green Climate Fund. 북한의 ...
Article > Blog 
Evidence review: Private sector investments in mitigation
... sector investment in mitigation and assess which modes of funding are most effective and efficient in mitigating ... exists with respect to the effectiveness and efficiency of private sector mitigation investments? Where has the GCF ... instrument and/or the institutional architecture determined rates of emission reduction and profitability ...
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Independent evaluation of the adaptation portfolio and approach of the Green Climate Fund
The Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Adaptation Portfolio and Approach completed ... meeting in March 2021. Adapt2021 Independent evaluation of the adaptation portfolio and approach of the Green Climate Fund ...
Evaluation > Portfolio
The overlooked role of secretariats in the success of environmental treaties
... influence international civil servants have on the outcomes of the treaties and organizations they work for. After ... can follow him on Twitter @archirastogi You can follow the IEU @GCF_Eval #IEUblog The overlooked role of secretariats in the success ...
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