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Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity
... Secretariat with an independent, evidence-based assessment of the GCF’s approach to ecosystems and ecosystem ... which GCF investments promote biodiversity as a co-benefit of climate action, particularly through nature-based and ... The evaluation will also assess the relevance and coherence of the GCF’s approach to ecosystems and biodiversity ...
Evaluation > Programmatic
A Synthesis Study on the Green Climate Fund: An Interim Deliverable under the Third Performance Review
Approved as part of the Independent Evaluation Unit’s 2025 workplan by the ... it plays a critical role in sharpening the focus of the TPR by grounding the review in existing evidence and ...
Document > Synthesis
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
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 
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 
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 
Forward-looking Performance Review of the GCF: Has the governing instrument translated into an adequate structure for GCF to operationalize its mandate?
... Forward-looking Performance Review of the GCF: Has the governing instrument translated into an ...
Video > IEU video
COP25 Keynote (Part 1): Green Climate Fund Results over its Initial Resource Mobilization Period
Video > IEU video
Video > IEU video
COP25 Keynote (Part 2): Green Climate Fund Results over its Initial Resource Mobilization Period
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Video > IEU video
COP25 Keynote (Part 3): Green Climate Fund Results over its Initial Resource Mobilization Period
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Video > IEU video
Highlights: Country Case Studies for the Independent Evaluation of the GCF's Country Ownership Approach
... Country Case Studies for the Independent Evaluation of the GCF's Country Ownership Approach ...
Video > IEU video
Webinar: Independent Evaluation of the Relevance and Effectiveness of GCF Investments in SIDS
... Webinar: Independent Evaluation of the Relevance and Effectiveness of GCF Investments in SIDS ...
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Webinar: Independent Assessment of GCF's Simplified Approval Process
... Webinar: Independent Assessment of GCF's Simplified Approval Process ...
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Spotlight: Evaluating the relevance and effectiveness of the GCF’s investments in the African States
This video summarizes the key findings and recommendations of the Independent Evaluation of the Relevance and Effectiveness of the Green Climate Fund’s Investments in the African ...
Video > IEU video
Spotlight: Independent Synthesis of Direct Access in the Green Climate Fund
This video summarizes the key findings and recommendations of the Independent Synthesis of Direct Access in the Green Climate Fund. The video was ... Spotlight: Independent Synthesis of Direct Access in the Green Climate Fund ...
Video > IEU video
Stakeholder Engagement in Impact Evaluation
Strong engagement with stakeholders is central to the IEU’s Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment ... local stakeholders from inception through to completion of the evaluation. For example, project teams have full ... and shared responsibility and accountability with the GCF-IEU for the interpretation of results and reporting. Within ...
Article > Blog 
Good will hunting: Challenges of theory-based impact evaluations for climate investments in a multilateral setting
... when institutionalizing LORTA within the GCF ecosystem of international and national actors. These challenges may ... other multilateral settings. Good will hunting: Challenges of theory-based impact evaluations for climate investments ...
Document > Other publication
Going the Last Mile: Behavioural Science and Investments in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
... on both portfolio-level data as well as case studies of 11 purposively-chosen projects from a random sample of 20 projects in the GCF portfolio. This is a revised and extended version of the paper presented to the Climate2020 online Conference. ...
Document > Learning paper
Final report on the Independent evaluation of the Green Climate Fund's approach to the private sector
... This evaluation assesses the relevance and effectiveness of the GCF’s approach to the private sector. Its findings ... include: Enhancing the speed and transparency of GCF operations to align with private sector needs for ... Evaluation Unit Final report on the Independent evaluation of the Green Climate Fund's approach to the private sector ...
Document > Evaluation report
"Show me the money": Resource allocation, funding windows and country needs
As the initial resource mobilization period of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) draws to an end with over ... project funding allocation and the vulnerability levels of recipient and non-recipient countries. Elangtlhoko ...
Document > Working paper
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 ... focuses on synthesizing the evidence on the effectiveness of behavioural science interventions, including feedback, ... presents the overall approach for the systematic review of the effectiveness of these specific behavioural ...
Document > Other publication
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 ... discussed for the GCF-2 period (2024–2027). The scope of the SPR includes (1) evaluating the GCF’s progress in ... actions as outlined in the USP, and (2) the performance of the GCF in promoting a paradigm shift towards ...
Document > Evaluation report
Impact evaluation baseline report for FP072: Strengthening climate resilience of agricultural livelihoods in agro-ecological regions I and II in Zambia
... the baseline data for “Strengthening climate resilience of agricultural livelihoods in agro-ecological regions I and ... descriptive statistics collected for the baseline phase of the SCRALA impact evaluation. Babatunde Abidoye, Dr. ... baseline report for FP072: Strengthening climate resilience of agricultural livelihoods in agro-ecological regions I and ...
Document > Evaluation document
Evaluation Operational Procedures and Guidelines for Accredited Entity-led Evaluations
... (‘Guidelines’) aim to promote a shared understanding of the requirements of the GCF Evaluation Policy as they relate to the delivery of interim evaluations and final evaluations of funded ...
Document > Policy
Valuing investments in the Global Carbon Market Mechanism as compound real options: Lessons from the Clean Development Mechanism
... projects at the same time as limiting the global costs of tackling global warming. Using the worked example of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), this article shows that the exact valuation of a mitigation project requires the application of compound ...
Document > Other publication
[Approach paper] Independent Evaluation of Green Climate Fund's Approach to the Energy Sector
An independent evaluation of the GCF's approach to the energy sector is undertaken ... The evaluation will assess the relevance and effectiveness of GCF’s approach to the energy sector to inform future ... guidance. It will also provide an extensive analysis of the results achieved as well as scenarios for future ...
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