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LORTA Inception Workshop 2018
... programme, initiated by the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The LORTA programme aims to ...
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Realist review: Just transition towards low emission, climate resilient and more inclusive societies in developing countries
... and legal barriers, exclusion and unequal distribution of benefits, as well as inadequate technical skills. These findings are covered in this IEU brief . Theodora Yeung, Lekha Tlhotlhalemaje, Camilla ... Norrington-Davies, Agata Makowska, Rob Macquarie, Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song, Yeonji Kim, Daisuke Horikoshi, Zephaniah ...
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Approach Paper: Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Simplified Approval Process (SAP2025)
... efficiency in approval and disbursement. Building on the IEU’s 2020 assessment of the SAP Pilot Scheme, this 2025 evaluation examines how ... timeline, and deliverables, guiding the independent review of SAP’s performance and impact. Approach Paper: ...
Document > Approach paper
The Third Evaluability assessment of the Green Climate Fund’s Funding Proposals
... study conducted by the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The study assesses whether ... in a reliable and credible manner. It analyses a sample of 20 funding proposals (FPs) approved between B.26 and ...
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Executive Summary: Independent Evaluation of the GCF's Approach to Country Ownership (COA2025)
This document presents the Executive Summary of the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Country Ownership (COA2025). It ... of the evaluation, which was conducted as part of the IEU’s 2025 workplan and submitted to the GCF Board ahead ...
Document > Evaluation brief
Independent Evaluation of the GCF's Approach to Country Ownership (COA2025)
This independent evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) approach to country ownership was approved by the GCF Board as part of the 2025 workplan of the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) and is submitted in time for its forty-third meeting ...
Document > Evaluation report
Learning Talk: Evaluation Policy of the GCF
On 15 February, the IEU organized a Learning Talk on the Evaluation Policy of the GCF. The objective of the GCF’s Evaluation Policy ... You can now watch a recording of the event below: #IEUtalks Hybrid Learning Talk: Evaluation Policy of the GCF ...
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Evaluability assessment of the Green Climate Fund funding proposals
This paper continues IEU’s effort to assess the tools and frameworks within ... proposals that enable robust monitoring and measurement of results during project implementation. The series began ... in 2019 with “Becoming bigger, better, smarter: A summary of the evaluability of Green Climate Fund proposals”. This ...
Document > Learning paper
Spotlight: Independent Assessment of the GCF's SAP Pilot Scheme.
... Evaluation Unit undertook its Independent Assessment of the GCF's Simplified Approval Process (SAP) Pilot Scheme. ... behind the assessment and learn more about the key findings of our report. Read the full report at ieu.greenclimate.fund/evaluations/sap This video was ...
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Learning Talk: How do we know GCF investments work?
... goal? How can this be credibly measured so that the impact of the GCF can be accurately reported? How do we know GCF investments work? On 26 April, the IEU held a Learning Talk asking this very question: how do ... at the DMA. This was followed by an introduction to the IEU’s Learning-Oriented Real Time Impact Assessment ...
Event > IEU talk 
Learning Talk: Transformational Change
... to have transformational effects as it is clear the level of climate finance invested is insufficient to meet the ... global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. On 26 July, the IEU held a Learning Talk on Transformation Change, presenting a recent evidence review by the GCF’s IEU and CIF’s Evaluation and Learning Initiative The ...
Event > IEU talk 
FPR2019 Topical Brief: Summary of the Review
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 the needs of developing countries by fulfilling the mandate provided ...
Document > Evaluation brief
GEvalBrief 08
... brief introduces decision makers to the key points in the IEU’s evaluation of the relevance and effectiveness of the GCF’s investments in SIDS. With the effective use ...
Document > Evaluation brief
Rapid assessment of the progress of the Green Climate Fund's Updated Strategic Plan
The rapid assessment of the progress of the GCF's Updated Strategic Plan is an IEU deliverable contributing to the Second Performance ...
Document > Evaluation document
Green Climate Fund Evaluation Standards
The GCF Board mandated the IEU to develop evaluation standards in collaboration with ... consistent and harmonized approach across all three types of evaluations, namely, IEU-led, Secretariat-led and AE-led, as recognized by the ...
Document > Policy
[Approach Paper] Independent Evaluation of the Relevance and Effectiveness of GCF Investments in Latin America and the Caribbean States
During the thirty-seventh meeting of the GCF Board, the 2024 IEU workplan was approved, which includes an Independent Evaluation of the Relevance and Effectiveness of GCF Investments in ...
Document > Approach paper
Forward-Looking Performance Review noted by Frankfurt School 'GCF Monitor'
IEU's Forward-Looking Performance Review was referenced in the first edition of 'GCF Monitor' published by the Frankfurt School - UNEP ...
Article > IEU in the news 
Results Based Payments for REDD+ under the Green Climate Fund: Lessons Learned on Social, Environmental and Governance Safeguards
... was published by the MDPI Journal on Forests. The IEU's Andreas Reumann served as a co-author to the report in ...
Article > News 
Online survey on the GCF's approach to the private sector
The IEU is currently undertaking an independent evaluation of the GCF's approach to the private sector. Among other methods of data collection, the evaluation invites you to ...
Article > News 
Evaluating the Performance of the Green Climate Fund: Country Perspectives and Experiences
... the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) studied GCF activities in 12 developing countries as part of the Second Performance Review (SPR) of the GCF, which focused on the first replenishment period ...
Document > Evaluation document
INU students visit Green Climate Fund headquarters in Songdo
On April 30, the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) hosted 30 students from the Department of European Trade at Incheon National University (INU) for ... (GCF) headquarters in Songdo. Andreas Reumann, Head of the IEU, opened the session with a presentation on the history ...
Article > Article 
INU students visit Green Climate Fund headquarters in Songdo
On April 30, the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) hosted 30 students from the Department of European Trade at Incheon National University (INU) for ... (GCF) headquarters in Songdo. Andreas Reumann, Head of the IEU, opened the session with a presentation on the history ...
Article > Article 
Uptake matters: Why evidence and communications go hand in hand
... and yet, it is surprisingly common for state-of-the-art research to waste away in online archives. Case ... in their job title shudder. Fortunately, the numbers at the IEU are different. Of the evaluation reports published in ... Review, the first performance review of the GCF by the IEU, was downloaded 350 times in 2021, despite being first ...
Article > Blog 
Global SDG Synthesis Coalition
... initiative spearheaded by the UNDP Independent Evaluation Office and Global Affairs Canada and comprises 37 United ... the SDGs and to inform the post-SDG development agenda. The IEU, represented by Andreas Reumann, Head, is co-chairing ... the Planet Pillar synthesis is at the inception stage, the IEU, together with UNEP-IEO, will ensure that the learnings ...
Event > External event 
A data what? How I learned to compile a data dictionary
During the first week of my internship with the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU), the Head of the Unit asked me to create a data ... I faced another surprise. Like most things in the IEU, our data dictionary is not your stock, and standard ...
Article > Blog 
Second Performance Review of the Green Climate Fund launched
... Efforts to comprehensively assess the recent performance of the world’s biggest multilateral climate fund, serving ... of country ownership. The Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the GCF will undertake this review over the period ... next programming period (2024-2027). Mr. Andreas Reumann, IEU’s Head ad interim, welcomed the decision of the Board ...
Article > News 
Learning Talk: Evidence Review on Women’s Empowerment
On 30 March, the IEU held the Learning Talk on the Evidence Review on ... Women’s Empowerment. This learning event introduced the IEU’s evidence review on the effectiveness of interventions that seek to promote women’s empowerment ...
Event > IEU talk 
Independent Evaluation of the Relevance and Effectiveness of the Green Climate Fund's Investments in the SIDS
... states (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 ...
Evaluation > Portfolio
LORTA Virtual Design Workshop 2021
In 2021, the IEU organized a 10-week long workshop as part of its Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) ... recordings of the workshop sessions are available on the IEU YouTube channel as listed below. Webinar 1: What is ...
Event > Webinar 
LORTA Design Workshop 2019 in Mannheim, Germany
The IEU held its second LORTA Design Workshop in collaboration ... took place from 15 to 17 April 2019, at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Participants were representatives from ... the workshop's keynote presentations are available on the IEU YouTube channel as listed below. The Power of Impact ...
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