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Approach paper: Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Indigenous Peoples (IP2024)
This paper outlines the approach of the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Indigenous Peoples (IPs). This ... primarily aims to assess the relevance and effectiveness of the GCF approach to IPs. The evaluation will also ...
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GEvalNote 20: LAC2024
... 2-pager summarizes the main conclusions and recommendations of the Independent Evaluation of the Relevance and Effectiveness of GCF’s Investments in the Latin American and Caribbean ...
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GEvalNote 19: PPWW2024
... 2-pager summarizes the main conclusions and recommendations of the Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Approach to and Protection of Whistleblowers and Witnesses. GEvalNote 19: PPWW2024 ...
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Evidence gap map and intervention heat maps: Climate change adaptation in low- and middle-Income countries
This evidence review examined evidence on climate change adaptation interventions and their effectiveness between 2007 and 2018. Results from 464 studies are included in an evidence gap map which shows large disparities...
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Meta-analysis: Access to credit as a determinant of autonomous adaptation to climate change: A meta-analysis of the evidence
... that examines the evidence regarding the effectiveness of climate change adaptation interventions and linked ... study assesses the role that access to credit plays in determining the uptake of adaptation measures in the ... sector. Meta-analysis: Access to credit as a determinant of autonomous adaptation to climate change: A ...
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Infographic (PPWW2024)
... and recommendations from the Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Approach to and Protection of Whistleblowers and Witnesses (PPWW2024). It highlights ... on the effectiveness, awareness, and implementation of the GCF’s whistleblower protection policy. Infographic ...
Document > Evaluation brief
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 ...
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Gender Synthesis: Approach
... presents the proposed approach for conducting a Synthesis of the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Gender Approach. ... Informed by initial stakeholder consultations and a review of key documents, the paper outlines the objectives, scope, ... GCF’s operations and projects. It also provides a roadmap of planned activities, deliverables, and timelines for the ...
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Approach Brief: Independent evaluation of the GCF’s approach to and Portfolio of Climate Information and Early Warning System Interventions
... summarizes the approach for the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to and Portfolio of Climate Information and Early Warning System (CIEWS) ... and deliverables. Approach Brief: Independent evaluation of the GCF’s approach to and Portfolio of Climate ...
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Effectiveness of Certification and Land Tenure Interventions to Conserve Forests
... the methodology for an evidence review on the effectiveness of certification and land tenure interventions in conserving ... outcomes. Nathalie Doswald, Sasha Murat Effectiveness of Certification and Land Tenure Interventions to Conserve ...
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LAC2024: Executive Summary
... and recommendations from the independent evaluation of GCF investments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). ... relevance, effectiveness, country ownership, and coherence of GCF support in the region, while identifying ...
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Effectiveness of certification and land tenure interventions to conserve forests - A systematic review
This systematic review assesses the effectiveness of certification and land tenure interventions in reducing ... most effectively to conservation goals. Effectiveness of certification and land tenure interventions to conserve ...
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Executive Summary: Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Simplified Approval Process
... most vulnerable to climate change. This executive summary of the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s SAP presents the modality’s progress, key ... landscape. Executive Summary: Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Simplified Approval Process ...
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
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
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 
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
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 
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 
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