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Evidence reviews

Overview The IEU believes it is important for the GCF to use global ... works, what doesn’t, for whom, why and by how much. The IEU’s evidence reviews assemble global evidence on topics ... search guided by a protocol. They appraise the quality of evidence and illustrate the evidence base in an ...

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Final report on the independent assessment of the GCF's Simplified Approval Process (SAP) Pilot Scheme

At the twenty-fourth meeting of the Board (B.24), the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the GCF was requested by the Board to conduct an ...

Document > Evaluation report

Data Outlook: B.29, what would it mean for the GCF’s portfolio?

The 29th meeting of the GCF Board began on 28 June and will come to a close ... Cooperation Agency (JICA), aims to strengthen the long-term and sustainable resilience of national land against ... significant proportion in both nominal and grant equivalent terms. Given this result, the GCF would need to consider ...

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1-year anniversary of the Forward-Looking Performance Review of the GCF

June 30th marks the 1-year anniversary of the first Forward-Looking Performance Review (FPR) of the ... Unit. In this video, Dr. Jyotsna Puri, Head of the IEU, explains the findings and impact of the FPR and reveals ... for the second FPR. Read more about the FPR here: https://ieu.greenclimate.fund/evaluations/fpr This video was ...

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Events

Calendar of events To stay on top of international best practice and theory, the IEU participates actively and regularly in international ... may also exist for your organization to collaborate with IEU in a conference, seminar, workshop or similar. Share ...

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Approach Brief: FPR2019

The IEU’s Forward-Looking Performance Review (FPR) encourages ... enhancing the GCF’s performance. The overall objective of this review is to understand how the GCF can better serve ... brief provides a pre-implementation summary of the IEU’s planned FPR. It describes the FPR’s context, ...

Document > Evaluation brief

Independent Assessment of the GCF's Simplified Approval Process Pilot Scheme

As of the last Board meeting (B.24, November 2019), 12 SAP ... at different stages of the SAP process. The purpose of the IEU assessment is to inform and recommend actions for Board ... to improve the GCF project cycle . The assessment will determine if any lessons learned from the implementation of ...

Evaluation > Programmatic

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 ... thoughts on the pandemic. She explains what lessons the #IEU has learned and how we can all plot a path forward. What ...

Article > Interview

Partners

Our partners The IEU works with a range of partners. These include accredited entities, NDAs, ... Bank of the Philippines MoU (LORTA) In August 2022, the IEU signed an MoU with Land Bank. The objectives of the ...

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Five questions with Dr. Unni Karunakara

Dr. Unni Karunakara, Shinhan Distinguished Professor of Yonsei University, served as IEU's May lunch talk speaker. His discussion focused on ... comment or question? Join the conversation on Twitter! IEU: @GCF_Eval Dr. Unni Karunakara: @UnniKarunakara ...

Article > Interview

Inception Report for the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s ESS and ESMS

During the twenty-first meeting of the GCF Board, the 2019 work plan of the Independent Evaluation Unit was approved, which lays ... in 2019. One of the evaluations to be conducted by the IEU is an independent assessment of the ESS and ESMS of the ...

Document > Approach paper

GEvalNote 02

The role of the GCF’s results management framework (RMF) is to ... monitor and evaluate the outputs, outcomes and impacts of the GCF’s investments and portfolio and the GCF’s ... brief introduces decision makers to the key points in the IEU’s evaluation of the RMF. It describes the ...

Document > Evaluation brief

Dynamic learning & evaluation: The GCF portfolio and suggestions for ways to improve organizational learning

Dr. Nathan Fiala, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut, and IEU's consultant assessing the evaluability of GCF approved ...

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New Podcast

The IEU is pleased to announce we will be releasing a new ... talk and workshop discussions on the go! Our first episode of the series will begin with Kevin M. Adams from the ...

Article > Podcast

'The Evaluator’ Episode 13: REDD+, Cancun Safeguards, and the GCF’s pilot programme

This episode of the Evaluator features two renowned REDD+ experts: Ms. ... Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Together with IEU’s Yeonji Kim as the moderator, they discuss a wide ... mechanism as a whole. Maria and Pierre also discuss the IEU's Independent evaluation of the GCF's Environmental and ...

Article > Podcast

'The Evaluator' Episode 2: Behavioural Science and Climate Change

... help bridge the gap between the clear scientific evidence of climate change and the lack of effective climate action ... positive change. The episode includes commentary from three IEU team members involved with behavioural science ... Research Assistant Consultant and also a member of the IEU’s Behavior and Design Lab “BaDLab”. Cornelius’s ...

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Publications

IEU publications To serve the needs of our stakeholders, the IEU issues a variety of publications related to our work, ...

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Independent Evaluation of the GCF's Approach to the Private Sector

Previous IEU evaluative and learning work has shown that the GCF ... in adaptation. This evaluation examines the approach of the GCF to involving and mobilizing the private sector, ... and assesses the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the approach of the GCF towards the private sector. This ...

Evaluation > Thematic

Spotlight: Climate Change and COVID-19

On October 15, the IEU's Principal Evaluation Officer Andreas Reumann was featured on Arirang TV's ' ... and climate change? Reach out on Twitter and let us know! IEU: @GCF_Eval Andreas: @AndiReu Spotlight: Climate ...

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Spotlight: Evaluating the GCF's investments in the SIDS

SIDS are an exceptionally heterogeneous group of countries. But they all have one thing in common: they ... its twenty-fourth meeting, the Board of the GCF asked the IEU to assess the relevance and effectiveness of the Green ... This evaluation is part of a concerted effort by the IEU to examine the relevance and effectiveness of the ...

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4 Key Questions in the Forward-looking Performance Review

During the 23rd meeting of the Board in Songdo, the Board of the Green Climate Fund took note of the IEU's Forward-looking Performance Review. Over the course of 8 months, the IEU sought to address 4 key questions in the Review of the ...

Article > News

‘The Evaluator’ Episode 11: Evaluating the GCF’s adaptation portfolio

... more relevant and effective? This episode features three IEU members who contributed significantly to the IEU’s recently concluded “Independent Evaluation of the Adaptation Portfolio and Approach of the Green ...

Article > Podcast

Discussing women’s empowerment at IFAD’s Jobs, Innovation and Value Chains Conference

IEU Evaluation Specialist Dr. Martin Prowse contributed to a session of the Jobs, Innovation, and Value Chains in the Context of ... summarised the approach and preliminary findings of the IEU's ongoing Evidence Gap Map on the effectiveness of ...

Event > External event

Learning & working papers

Learning papers The IEU engages with and contributes to debates on climate ... pathways and climate-resilient development. The IEU Learning Paper Series encourages discussion on these ... or are from partner organisations. Effectiveness of Climate Change Mitigation Interventions in the Private ...

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Events: GCF 23rd Meeting of the Board

... during B-23: What are we learning? Lessons from the IEU's Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) ... (tentatively 12:30-13:30) Venue: 13F Meeting Room 1 The IEU's LORTA programme started in 2018 with the aim of helping project stakeholders build the capacity needed ...

Article > News

Behavioral insights to help us communicate

... break down the barrier between science and people? The IEU's Iben Hjorth explores this question in a new piece ... available in both digital and print. The Korea Times is one of the most popular English language daily newspapers in ... Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund: @GCF_Eval #IEUinthenews Interested in behavioral science? Check out our ...

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‘The Evaluator’ Episode 12: Addressing gender and climate change together

This episode of The Evaluator features Dr. Jeannette Gurung, Founder & ... care for the environment. This episode was created by the IEU's Iben Holstener Hjorth and Yeonji Kim. You can ... the hashtag #TheEvaluator. This podcast is based on the IEU Virtual Talk: Gender in Climate Change: Perspectives ...

Article > Podcast

'The Evaluator’ Episode 14: Climate bonds Part I

This episode of The Evaluator features Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds ... episode is available here . This podcast is based on the IEU Virtual Talk: The Future of Climate Bonds, held in May, 2021. This episode was created by the IEU's Iben Holstener Hjorth and Yeonji Kim. You can ...

Article > Podcast

Approach Brief: Accreditation

... deploying its resources, the GCF works through a wide range of institutions to finance projects and programmes. To ... funding, these institutions must fulfil the requirements of an accreditation process. This 2020 2-page introductory ... brief provides a pre-implementation summary of the IEU’s planned synthesis of the GCF accreditation function. ...

Document > Evaluation brief

Approach Paper for the Independent Assessment of the GCF SAP Pilot Scheme

This document presents the approach the IEU proposes using to assess the performance of the Simplified Approval Process (SAP) Pilot Scheme. The ... practices) to the GCF project cycle for a particular set of projects: less than $10 million of GCF contribution, low ...

Document > Approach paper

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