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Scoping Study on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Climate Change Evaluations
Commissioned by the evaluation units of the Adaptation Fund, CIF, GEF, and GCF, this 2025 study explores the potential of AI to enhance the quality, efficiency, and impact of climate change evaluations. It examines current ...
Document > Learning paper
GEvalNote 21: HWFW2024
... and recommendations from the Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Result Area on Health ...
Document > Evaluation brief
COA2025: Approach paper for the Independent Evaluation of the GCF's Approach to Country Ownership
... paper outlines the plan for the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Country Ownership Approach. Approved by the ... COA2025: Approach paper for the Independent Evaluation of the GCF's Approach to Country Ownership ...
Document > Evaluation brief
Learning Talk: Just Transition – What Does the Evidence Say?
Summary On 29 November, the IEU held a Learning Talk on Just Transition. The talk opened with a summary of the findings and learnings from a recent evidence review co-funded by the GCF-IEU and ILO on the evidence regarding interventions ...
Event > IEU talk 
Learning talk: Water – What Works in Developing Countries?
Summary On 19 October 2023, the IEU held a learning talk on water sector interventions. This learning talk reported on the findings of a systematic review on interventions that aim to enhance ... level). While the effects of interventions on intermediate outcomes (yields, income) are clear, more ...
Event > IEU talk 
Private investor engagement key to climate-resilient world
... not only to the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, but also to innovative, eco-friendly ... prominent at the GCF with mitigation projects, showed the IEU’s FPR published in June 2019. This is partly ... states, as well as its efficiency and effectiveness. “The IEU advises the board on the strategy for GCF,” she said. ...
Article > Interview 
PRESS RELEASE: ‘Green Climate Fund’s governance on track, but other improvements needed’: Independent report
Songdo, Republic of Korea. 31 March 2023. An independent review of the Green ... Produced by the GCF’s Independent Evaluation Unit (GCF-IEU) and adopted by the GCF Board at its thirty-fifth ... consisting of government and non-government actors determining program priorities, identifying implementing ...
Article > News 
Evidence review: Women's empowerment
... outcomes. By empowering women, individuals become agents of change and can catalyze climate action as well as ... depicts what evidence exists regarding the effectiveness of interventions which seek to promote women’s ... to understand the areas where research on the effectiveness of interventions for women’s empowerment is concentrated ...
Evidence review
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 ...
Article > Blog 
Evidence review: Behavioural science
While being the primary agent of mitigation and adaptation, human behaviours are the least studied aspect of climate change. With climate change intensifying globally ... a behavioural science lens strengthens the short- and long-term effectiveness of interventions. The evidence gap map ...
Evidence review
Accountability in Climate Action
... By 2030, the GCF aims to be managing USD 50 billion of funds and an ever-increasing number of projects on the ground. In this respect, the GCF aims to ... of the global effort to tackle climate change. This IEU has completed an independent evaluation to inform ...
Article > Blog 
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
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 ...
Article > Blog 
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 ...
Article > Blog 
Of prayer flags and readiness: Notes from an evaluation mission in Bhutan
... to romanticize Bhutan. In sharp contrast to the location of our GCF office, the air feels clean; there is such little ... it to the GCF as a token of appreciation. Of course, the IEU is not the intended recipient of the gifts, and we are ... eventually. The mission was undertaken as part of the IEU evaluation of the GCF readiness program. The report of ...
Article > Blog 
Measuring resilience: Threading the needle
... from the past. After working with and in Somalia quite often over the last 15 years, I felt deeply touched. ... approaches that address both immediate needs and long-term resilience. Achieving this transformation in a ... Within the large portfolio of impact evaluations under the IEU’s Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment ...
Article > Blog 
Desert with a dirt road
IEU staff member Archi Rastogi shares reflection while on an evaluation visit to Namibia. The landscape of Namibia is like the tragic matriarch of an opera. She had ... here to ask some of these questions as part of an ongoing IEU evaluation. Not a drop to drink During a 5-day official ...
Article > Blog Namibia 
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 
Going the Last Mile: Behavioural Science and Investments in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (presented at Climate2020 Conference)
The purpose of this paper is to showcase how insights from behavioural ... insights from ‘nudges’ and ‘boosting’ for a sample of ten projects by the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Nudges are slight alterations of the decisionmaking environment that induce specific ...
Document > Other publication
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 ...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
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 ...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
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 
Independent evaluation of the adaptation portfolio and approach of the Green Climate Fund
Climate adaptation is at the forefront of tackling climate change along with mitigation. The GCF is ... the Board in March 2021. Adapt2021 Independent evaluation of the adaptation portfolio and approach of the Green Climate Fund ...
Evaluation > Portfolio
How to bridge the gap between complexity science and evaluation - A new analysis tool as a first step
This paper builds a bridge between the science of complexity and climate change adaptation activities ...
Document > Learning paper
Behavioural science, decision making and climate investments
... are conceived and implemented and the nascent field of behavioural science as a practical, low-cost but ... rewarding route for increasing the effectiveness of climate interventions. Emma De Roy, Chaning Jang, ...
Document > Learning paper
Inception Report for the Independent Review of the Green Climate Fund’s Results Management Framework
... one is to assess the design, implementation, and utility of the results management framework of the Green Climate Fund. The second is to support ... management framework as a tool for achieving the long-term objectives and impacts of the Fund. Inception Report ...
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