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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 ... communicators know about them. Do translate jargon into terms that are easy to understand for laypeople. CRED has ...
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Jobs
Jobs The IEU offers a range of employment opportunities for ... internship, a seasoned professional looking for a short term consultancy, someone ready for a major career jump, or ... a contract to undertake an innovative evaluation, the IEU may well have something for you. Bookmark this page so ...
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UNFCCC Draft Decision Welcomes Forward-Looking Performance Review
At the twenty-fifth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Madrid, a draft ... Climate Fund. In the text, the Conference of the Parties refers to the adoption of the workplan of the Board for ... Read the full draft decision text Learn more about the IEU's Forward-Looking Performance Review (FPR) UNFCCC ...
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Final report on Forward-looking Performance Review of the GCF (FPR2019)
... October 2018) the GCF Board initiated and approved a review of the GCF and asked the GCF Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) (decision B.21/17) to finalise the process by 30 June ... Instrument for the Green Climate Fund as well as in terms of its core operational priorities and actions as ...
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GCF Board requests evaluation policy
Update on evaluation policy rollout The IEU has been working with an array of partners in developing the GCF’s evaluation policy, as ... Entities, the IEU Advisory team and the Evaluation Policy reference group – an external reference group consisting ...
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'The Evaluator' Episode 10: What does it take to convince farmers to buy crop insurance for climate resilience?
... crop insurance improve farmers’ livelihoods in the face of climate change? If so, what does it take to convince them ... the sale of crop insurance through a mixed-incentive referral system. Dr. Peterson discusses how Busara leveraged ... and Behavioural Economics. This episode was produced by IEU’s Yeonji Kim and Iben Hjorth. You can subscribe to ...
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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 ... in evaluation; Carry out cutting-edge research in the field of climate change evaluation; Support impact evaluation data ...
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What Makes Us Happy
The world celebrates the UN International Day of Happiness every 20th of March. At first glance, ... factor, with the mental health of the mother being a key determinant of the happiness for a future adult. One of the ... Vaillant Liza Ottlakán is an evaluation associate at IEU. She is passionate about finding ways to apply abstract ...
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Evaluation must promote sustainable development
... away from confronting the increasingly central concerns of producing high-quality evidence for social inclusion, the ... with growth effects. We also show that the gap in terms of incorporating sustainability of growth is largest ... prove helpful in this objective. This is being used in the IEU’s focus on the Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact ...
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Co-creating an evaluation design: Insights from the field
Early in 2017, the IEU kick-started its LORTA Programme with a workshop in ... evaluation designs. In September, I had the privilege of travelling to Malawi and participating in the scoping ... pre-conceived ideas, and with an open heart and mind. The term “evaluation” can evoke negative connotations and ...
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In a Race against Time: Machine Learning for the Climate Emergency
... efficiently and effectively. Notably, the emerging state-of-the-art innovations using machine learning techniques ... of this function lies with its Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU), which ensures that the GCF makes informed decisions ... developed a taxonomy handbook listing the various in-house terminologies that can consequently make ML-enabled text ...
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'Lone wolves' must co-evolve to repair climate change
Head of the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Independent Evaluation ... speech that impact must be measured quantifiably, in terms of size and cost. Measurements should take into ... change. Puri, head of the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) at the GCF, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming ...
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A moon-shot approach? What can the GCF learn from the example of frontier investments?
... question, it is useful to look historically at the example of country-owned ‘frontier’ investments. These are ... approach, the discipline of the profit/loss account is long term and incentives are put into play for competition, ... this relevant to the GCF? One set of findings from the IEU’s latest report on country ownership focuses on GCF ...
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ESG commitments are useful. But have they translated into action?
Irrespective of where we start, though, we need thoughtful people in ... global climate governance in an age of bullshit’, refers to some of these tendencies as well. Net Output ... About the author Dr. Jyotsna Puri is the former Head of the IEU. She currently serves as Director of Environment, ...
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Designing an M&E System for Impact Evaluation: Tips for Program Designers and Evaluators!
... just been invited to the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU)’s Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment ... and measurement capabilities, the IEU will select six of these projects to provide better and timely impact ... Is it for developing a body of evidence?) ☑Identify intermediate outcome and potential impact indicators across ...
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Evaluations and research during crisis?
... happens and there are weeks when decades happen.’ One of the unsung and first casualties of humanitarian crisis ... types of crises. One insight: cash transfers may have long-term beneficial consequences that had been ignored ... Fund: @GCF_Eval Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo): @Jo_Puri #IEUinthenews Be sure to also check out Jo's video interview ...
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What the Green Climate Fund can teach us about multilateral organizations
The Green Climate Fund is a good example of an institution whose built-in learning structures and ... colleagues and I at the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the GCF spend a lot of time thinking about the ... countries would establish their own priorities and determine how best to access the GCF. "All of these are ...
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Mother Earth Day in the Andes
August 1st in much of South America is a day for celebrating the power and wonder of Mother Earth. Except we don’t call it Mother Earth. ... from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina refer to Mother Earth as Pachamama. Stories of the Goddess ...
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A decade old, the world's largest climate fund receives its first pulse-check
... Change (UNFCCC), the first comprehensive performance review of the Fund’s effectivity, functionality and impact was ... the review? It was a really ambitious performance review in terms of the credibility that we were striving for, the ... that should have targets and should be part of a longer term strategy for 20 years. And the last thing is that the ...
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All updates Check out all the recent developments at the IEU. All updates ...
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Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Interventions: an Evidence Gap Map
This paper presents an evidence gap map of forest conservation interventions in low- and ... Compared to the previous evidence gap map, the evaluation of forest conservation outcomes has clearly accelerated in recent years, but from a modest base: the body of evidence still remains insufficient across most ...
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Transformational Change: the Challenge of a Brave New World
... elusive. Consequently, there is nearly a complete absence of evidence on whether transformational change has been ... will require concerted thinking on this topic, a devolution of measurement capacities and a wider recognition of technologies and techniques as well as cross-systems ...
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Complexity, climate change and evaluation
... to climate change, a question arises as to how we can determine their effectiveness. Impact evaluations have emerged in the social sciences as a prominent tool to determine the causal effect of policies and programmes in fields like health and ...
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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions What are the values IEU pursues in its work? IEU’s overall theory of change is “Trusted Evidence. Informed Policies. High ...
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Evidence gap map: Adaptation
... map answered the following questions: What is the state of evidence on adaptation interventions, and what is their ... and within the water and built environment sectors. In terms of interventions and outcomes, nature-based solutions ... When designing financial products, the structure of preferences by highly vulnerable communities and individuals ...
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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 ... in an evidencebased and robust way. There are two main aims of the study: The first is to assess the quality of the proposals for the funded projects that the GCF has ...
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Work plan brief for 2020
At its twenty-fourth meeting in November 2019, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved a budget of USD 5,581,985 to fund the Independent Evaluation Unit’s (IEU) activities in 2020. There are four key elements of the IEU’s annual work plan for 2020. IEU evaluations Capacity ...
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Other publications IEU team members cooperate with their peers to produce ...
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News and articles
... page regularly to keep up with news and articles from the IEU. News and articles ...
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LORTA: What You Need to Know
In this video, IEU's Dr. Jo Puri provides an overview of the Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) ...
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