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GEvalBrief 03: LORTA 2020
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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Evidence review on behavioural science interventions in development and environmental fields in developing countries: Protocol for a systematic review
Based on the evidence gap map of behavioural science interventions within the development and environmental fields in developing countries, this protocol for a systematic review focuses on synthesizing the evidence on...
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Effectiveness of life skills training interventions for the empowerment of women in developing countries: A systematic review
The GCF’s approach to mainstreaming gender requires a strong understanding of gender issues and gender capacity, and the Fund’s gender policy sets out a commitment to measure the outcomes and impacts of its activities...
Document > Learning paper
Interventions for women's empowerment in developing countries: An evidence gap map
There is a broad spectrum of interventions targeted at gender equality in developing countries. However, to our knowledge, there is no evidence gap map on the effectiveness of interventions to improve women’s...
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Final report of the Second Performance Review of the Green Climate Fund
The Second Performance Review of the Green Climate Fund covers the GCF-1 period and seeks to inform, among other things, the next update to the strategic plan (USP-2), currently being discussed for the GCF-2 period (...
Document > Evaluation report
Final report on the independent evaluation of the GCF's Result Management Framework (RMF2019)
This review has two main objectives.
The first is to assess the design, implementation, and utility of the GCF’s Results Management Framework (RMF).
The second is to derive lessons and recommendations based on the...
Document > Evaluation report
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...
Evaluation > Programmatic
If I could time travel: does access to credit help the decision to adapt to climate change in developing countries?
... in our gap-map [1], which will be published soon by the IEU and DEval. In our recent meta-analysis report [2] to be published by the IEU and DEval in the coming weeks, we analyze this ...
Article > Blog 
Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment
In 2018, the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) started the multi-year ...
Evaluation > Thematic
What can the Green Climate Fund learn about innovation from institutional economics: Lessons for multilaterals.
... 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 ... people and innovative projects. Figure 1 below, from the IEU’s accreditation evaluation , shows the ‘climate ...
Article > Blog 
What the Green Climate Fund can teach us about multilateral organizations
... colleagues and I at the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the GCF spend a lot of time thinking about the ... that it has built in an accountability structure like the IEU to provide the board with evidence to support its ... can follow him on Twitter @archirastogi You can follow the IEU @GCF_Eval #IEUblog What the Green Climate Fund ...
Article > Blog 
Often late and costs a pretty penny: do impact evaluations meet the opportunity window?
... 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 ... testing beforehand. Most grant windows (including 3ie and IEU’s LORTA) build in a first formative phase to minimize ...
Article > Blog 
REDD+: A global effort to mitigate climate change and protect forests
Juan Chang, Principal Specialist in Forests and Land Use at the Green Climate Fund, provides an overview of REDD+ and its importance in fighting climate change. The talk delves into Juan’s key points on forest...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
A sneak peek at GCF’s B.30: Funding proposals, and strategy and policy items for Board discussion
... seeking approval at B.30). This is significant: a recent IEU learning paper analysed, for example, the potential of ... through its current programming period, the findings of an IEU analysis of Board decision-making in GCF-1 are used to ... for transformational change at the Green Climate Fund. IEU learning paper, No. 05, March 2021. Independent ...
Article > Blog 
Evaluation must promote sustainable development
... prove helpful in this objective. This is being used in the IEU’s focus on the Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact ...
Article > Blog 
Effectiveness of Climate Change Mitigation Interventions in the Private Sector in Developing Countries - A Synthetic Review
Based on an evidence gap map on the same topic, it provides a detailed description of the 32 studies that met the strict inclusion criteria, their different implementation modalities and the study designs applied in...
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
This evaluation assesses whether the GCF’s approach and investments have been relevant and effective in reducing the vulnerability of local communities in LDCs and of their livelihoods to the effects of climate change,...
Document > Evaluation report
Evidence review: Transformational change
Overview
This evidence review will combine two different evidence gap maps into one learning exercise on transformational change.
We will indirectly review the evidence on transformational change in two sectors where...
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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
Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Interventions: an Evidence Gap Map
This paper presents an evidence gap map of forest conservation interventions in low- and middle-income countries based on evidence published over the period 2016 to mid-2018. It serves as an update to a similar effort...
Document > Learning paper
[Approach paper] Evidence review on the effectiveness of interventions promoting women's empowerment in developing countries
The evidence review on the effectiveness of interventions promoting women's empowerment in developing countries builds on Kabeer’s conceptualization that empowerment requires steps involving the resources, agency and...
Document > Other publication
Evidence Review on Results-Based Payments: Evidence Gap Map and Intervention Heat Map
The evidence review presents a systematic, multisectoral search of publications in the academic and grey literature. The search was restricted to quantitative studies published between 2000 and 2020 that assessed the...
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 (EGM) is derived by systematically and exhaustively reviewing high-quality evidence from evaluation, research, peer-reviewed and grey...
Document > Learning paper
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
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
My pop moments from COP25
... 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.
... Jyotsna Puri (Jo), Head of the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), on the knowledge ...
Article > Interview 
ESG commitments are useful. But have they translated into action?
... About the author Dr. Jyotsna Puri is the former Head of the IEU. She currently serves as Director of Environment, ...
Article > Blog 
북한의 생태회복 – 녹색기후기금에겐 기회일까?
... This guest blog was produced in conjunction with the IEU Virtual Talk on climate change and biodiversity, held in ...
Article > Blog 
Evidence review: Private sector investments in mitigation
Overview
Private sector investments have the potential to contribute significantly to climate change mitigation. This evidence review will produce an evidence gap map, an intervention heat map, and a systematic review....
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