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'The Evaluator' Episode 5: Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) on the importance of trusted evidence
... of our interview with Dr Jyotsna Puri (Jo), the Head of the IEU. Appointed by the GCF Board in 2017, Jo built the IEU from the ground up to a team of 28 members today. She has worked tirelessly to ensure that the IEU conduct high-quality evidence-based evaluations that ...
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Work plans
The IEU's 2025 Work Plan and Budget At its fortieth meeting in ... USD 7,672,039 to fund the Independent Evaluation Unit’s (IEU) activities in 2025, with provisional budgets of USD ... plan of the Third Performance Review and an update of the IEU’s three-year rolling objectives. The Board decision ...
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GCF Regional Dialogue with Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The IEU will take part in the IEU at GCF Regional Dialogue with Eastern Europe and Central ... Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. During the event the IEU will present at the following sessions: Plenary: ...
Event > External event North Macedonia 
MELting Silos: Mixing Evaluations with Monitoring & Learning Across the Green Climate Fund
This IEU Learning Brief, prepared jointly by the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) and the Department of Monitoring, Evaluation, and ... identifies areas of complementarity and overlap between the IEU and DMEL. The brief highlights the importance of clear ...
Document > Learning paper
Learning Talk: Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme
The IEU is holding the Learning Talk: Readiness and Preparatory ... RPSP in order to inform the upcoming RPSP evaluation of the IEU, which will be conducted in 2023. During the event, ... Share an initial summary of related findings from past IEU evaluations and summary statistics; Outline ...
Event > IEU talk 
Gobeshona Global Conference: Designing a loss and damage financing mechanism
On 19 January 2021 (16:00-18:00 UTC), IEU's Andreas Reumann and Archi Rastogi joined, as speakers ... and damages from climate impacts will be discussed. IEU's Mr. Reumann and Dr. Rastogi shared the lessons learned from the IEU's recent evaluation of the relevance and effectiveness ...
Event > External event 
Final report on the independent synthesis of the GCF's accreditation function
... all relevant documents produced by the GCF Secretariat, IEU and external stakeholders; (b) critically appraise those ... existing reviews, evaluations and analysis prepared by the IEU and other GCF Secretariat divisions or by consultants on ... by more than 50 interviews and data provided by the IEU DataLab. Final report on the independent synthesis of ...
Document > Evaluation report
Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Approach to and Protection of Whistleblowers and Witnesses
... of the Policy states that the the IIU shall engage with the IEU to independently evaluate the effectiveness of the ... collaborate efforts and discussion by both IUs, the IEU conducted an independent evaluation assessing the ... on the findings and recommendations from the evaluation, IEU provided valuable insights into the implementation, ...
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LORTA Synthesis Report 2024
... (LORTA) Programme of the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) for 2024. It reports on the programme’s outputs, ...
Document > Impact evaluation report
Learning talk: Enhancing capacity of accredited entities - an independent view
On 14 June, the IEU held a learning talk on enhancing the capacity of ... accredited entities in evaluation, integrity and redress by IEU, IIU and IRM respectively. At the event, the IEU, IIU and IRM discussed how their mandates support and ...
Event > IEU talk 
Evidence reviews
Overview The IEU believes it is important for the GCF to use global ... works, what doesn’t, for whom, why and by how much. The IEU’s evidence reviews assemble global evidence on topics ... the evidence base in an easy-to-understand manner. The IEU produces two types of evidence review: Evidence gap maps ...
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Approach Brief: Adaptation
... brief provides a pre-implementation summary of the IEU’s planned evaluation of the GCF’s adaptation ...
Document > Evaluation brief
Approach Brief: Priv2021
... brief provides a pre-implementation summary of the IEU’s planned evaluation of the GCF’s approach to the ...
Document > Evaluation brief
Approach Brief: LDC2022
... brief provides a pre-implementation summary of the IEU’s planned evaluation of the relevance and ...
Document > Evaluation brief
Approach Brief: SPR2023
... brief provides a pre-implementation summary of the IEU’s Second Performance Review of the Green Climate Fund, ...
Document > Evaluation brief
Behaviour and Design Lab (BaD Lab)
Overview The IEU’s Behaviour and Design Lab (BaD Lab) assesses how ... that the supply of investments is not sufficient, the IEU’s BaD Lab focuses on the gap between the provision of ... within complex interventions. Started in 2019, the IEU’s BaD Lab furthers the IEU’s mandate to be a leader ...
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Approach Brief: FPR2019
The IEU’s Forward-Looking Performance Review (FPR) encourages ... brief provides a pre-implementation summary of the IEU’s planned FPR. It describes the FPR’s context, ...
Document > Evaluation brief
Final Report of the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Approach to Indigenous Peoples
... (IPs), undertaken by the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU). The evaluation assesses the relevance, effectiveness, ... and the GCF’s broader policies. Conducted as part of the IEU’s 2024 Work Plan, the evaluation was approved by the ...
Document > Evaluation report
GLocal Evaluation Week 2025
The Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) joined GLocal ... Sustainability, Inclusion, and Peace,” the IEU contributed three sessions from 3–5 June focused on ... 2025 Speakers : Jeehyun Yoon – Evaluation Specialist, IEU, Green Climate Fund Booyoung Jang – Researcher, IEU, ...
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SAP2020: Independent Assessment of the GCF's Simplified Approval Process Pilot Scheme
... at different stages of the SAP process. The purpose of the IEU assessment is to inform and recommend actions for Board ... on how to simplify the processes to access the GCF. The IEU assessment focuses on the following areas (considering the relevant IEU evaluation criteria in each of the areas): Critical ...
Evaluation > Programmatic
Evaluation and the new reality of COVID-19
How are evaluators facing the new reality of COVID-19? The IEU's Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) sat down with the Global ... thoughts on the pandemic. She explains what lessons the #IEU has learned and how we can all plot a path forward. What ...
Article > Interview 
Final report of the Independent Evaluation of the GCF's Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme
... and Preparatory Support Programme undertaken in 2023 by the IEU assesses RPSP supports to GCF-eligible recipient ... Strategic Plan 2020–2023. It examines progress since the IEU’s 2018 RPSP evaluation and looks at the Programme’s ...
Document > Evaluation report
Events
... stay on top of international best practice and theory, the IEU participates actively and regularly in international ... may also exist for your organization to collaborate with IEU in a conference, seminar, workshop or similar. Share ...
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Publications
IEU publications To serve the needs of our stakeholders, the IEU issues a variety of publications related to our work, ... the context of evaluations and learning. Keep up with the IEU’s latest publications here. Featured publications ...
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Evaluation policy
... Independent Evaluation Unit, the GCF Board requested the IEU to develop the Evaluation Policy for the GCF. In developing the policy, the IEU undertook extensive consultations. As requested by the Board, the IEU and the GCF Secretariat worked together to jointly ...
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Mother Earth Day in the Andes
... of climate change? References [1] Pachamama ceremony video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEycoiCn-r8 [2] From ...
Article > Blog 
Why waste precious resources on evaluation?
... the project staff learn about whether community training, videos and other forms of awareness building were helping to ...
Article > Blog 
We must know what works in a crisis and what doesn't
... Fund: @GCF_Eval Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo): @Jo_Puri #IEUinthenews Be sure to also check out Jo's video interview with the Global Landscapes Forum on ...
Article > Blog 
Partners
Our partners The IEU works with a range of partners. These include accredited ... International Labor Organization MoU In April 2023, the IEU signed a Knowledge Partnership MoU with the ... Bank of the Philippines MoU (LORTA) In August 2022, the IEU signed an MoU with Land Bank. The objectives of the ...
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Learning Talk: Trusted Evidence and Learning in the GCF
Summary The IEU held a learning talk on how the GCF can use trusted ... the 50by30 vision and Strategic Plan 2024-2027, and how the IEU is using trusted evidence from impacts evaluations to ... practices, should mainly be seen as aspirational. The IEU’s LORTA programme provides causal evidence on the ...
Event > IEU talk Republic of Korea 
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