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In our second episode of the IEU podcast series, Dr. Jörg Faust of the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) discusses the power of impact evaluation in development cooperation. His talk took place during...

On May 30, Dr. Unni Karunakara, Shinhan Distinguished Professor of Yonsei University, served as the guest speaker for IEU's lunch talk. He outlined the effects of climate change and how they are affecting human health...

From April 15-17, the IEU hosted a 3-day workshop on the Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) program in Mannheim, Germany. The event brought together implementers, evaluators and other stakeholders to...

Evaluation can be used as a tool to test economic growth theories and bring out key policies and investments that make growth (environmentally and socially) sustainable. Unfortunately, evaluation has shied away from...

Welcome to the first episode of the IEU podcast series! We hope that you enjoy the latest from our special events and speakers throughout the year. Subscribe to our channel to ensure that you never miss a new episode!...

The IEU is pleased to announce we will be releasing a new podcast available on Anchor, Spotify and other major podcast applications. Take our engaging lunch talk and workshop discussions on the go! Our first episode of...

During the last week of April, Kevin M. Adams and Adis Dzebo from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) visited the IEU. On April 30, Kevin gave a lunch talk on climate finance and transboundary risk. His...

February 2019 marked the first month of my internship with the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) at the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The period since that time has been challenging, but also served as a great opportunity...

Today marks the release of the inception report of the Independent Evaluation Unit's (IEU) evaluation of the GCF country ownership approach. Country ownership and country drivenness are key considerations in GCF...

The third working paper from the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) is now available. Challenges in real-world impact evaluations: Some learning on costs and timeliness, IEU Working Paper No....

The Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) has published its second working paper. Titled Complexity, climate change and evaluation, IEU Working Paper No. 02, it examines how we can think about...

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...

In March the IEU invited Juan Chang, Principal Specialist in Forests and Land Use at the Green Climate Fund, to provide an overview of REDD+ and its significance in combatting emissions. Included below is a summary of...

On April 5th, the first replenishment meeting of the GCF took place in Oslo, Norway. The event was the first appearance for new GCF Executive Director, Yannick Glemarec, and brought together Board members and potential...

This blog post first appeared on the “Evaluation for Development” blog curated by Ms. Zenda Ofir under the title "Jo Puri’s Top Tips for YEEs. So, you want to be an evaluator?”. I head the Independent Evaluation Unit (...

Early in 2017, the IEU kick-started its LORTA Programme with a workshop in Bangkok where entities and agencies implementing 15 GCF-approved projects were invited to learn about impact evaluation and constructing...

The World Economic Forum estimates that $5.7 trillion needs to be invested annually in green infrastructure for adaptation to climate change. Much of this is for developing countries. However, the Climate Policy...

Speakers at the event included Ada Osakwe, Founder and Chief Executive, Agrolay Ventures; Durreen Shahnaz, Founder and CEO, IIX (Impact Investment Exchange); Sylvia Wisniwski, Managing Director, Finance in Motion; Jane...

GDN and the GCF have entered into a strategic knowledge partnership for cooperation in knowledge generation, exchange, dissemination and uptake. Following this, in January 2019, Madhuri Dass Woudenberg, Head of...

The IEU is participating in a range of events at this year’s COP. These events will broaden stakeholder understanding of the IEU's evaluation activities. Side-events will include a discussion of its recent review of the...

Head of the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Independent Evaluation Unit, Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo), delivered a keynote speech on day two of the Global Landscape Forum (GLF). Managed by the Center for International Forestry...

The IEU's 2018 Annual Report 'Moving Ahead' was noted by the GCF Board at the Twenty-first Board meeting in Bahrain on October 17. The Annual Report outlines the IEU's goals and achievements for the year, including the...

Possibly more than many other policy area, the protection of the environment is liable to what could be called the “knowledge paradox”: scientific evidence shows that some pathways are unsustainable, yet many...

Update on evaluation policy rollout The IEU has been working with an array of partners in developing the GCF’s evaluation policy, as requested at the nineteenth meeting of the Board. To ensure the new policy achieves a...

The IEU has published the first in what will be a long series of learning papers examining cutting-edge climate change and evaluation issues: IEU Learning Paper #001 Transformational Change – the Challenge of a Brave...

August 1st in much of South America is a day for celebrating the power and wonder of Mother Earth. Except we don’t call it Mother Earth. Andean communities from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina refer to...

You may have heard of the recently awarded Nobel Prize for Economics that went to Daniel Kahneman for his work on behavioural insights. Behavioural insights were the subject of one of IEU’s recent Lunch Talks, featuring...

The Independent Evaluation Unit of the GCF (IEU-GCF) convened a seminar that discussed 'Emerging principles and lessons learned for the development of organized evaluation policies' at the United Nations Evaluation...

‘Independence - What does it mean today?’ This was the key question in a thought-provoking debate hosted by the IEU for this year’s United Nations Evaluation Group’s Evaluation Week. The Oxford-style debate asked two...

In too many discussions, evaluations are discussed as either a sledgehammer tool, or as a millstone around the neck of programme managers. Evaluations are all too often seen as wasting money, resources and precious time...