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Discussion of the Forward-looking Performance Review at the 23rd Meeting of the GCF Board
The Board of the Green Climate Fund discusses the Forward-looking Performance Review.
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Forward-looking Performance Review of the GCF: Has the governing instrument translated into an adequate structure for GCF to operationalize its mandate?
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Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Interventions: an Evidence Gap Map
This paper presents an evidence gap map of forest conservation interventions in low- and middle-income countries based on evidence published over the period 2016 to mid-2018. It serves as an update to a similar effort...
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Transformational Change: the Challenge of a Brave New World
Most multilateral development agencies aim for change that is ‘transformational’ or that shifts the ‘paradigm’. In many ways transformation has become the holy grail in development assistance, with most development and...
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Becoming bigger, better, smarter: A summary of the evaluability of Green Climate Fund proposals
The goal of the GCF is to support a paradigm shift towards low-carbon, high-resilience pathways. It is thus important to understand if such a paradigm shift is occurring, and, if so, to measure the extent to which the...
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Complexity, climate change and evaluation
As governments and multilateral institutions establish projects and programmes to mitigate and adapt to climate change, a question arises as to how we can determine their effectiveness. Impact evaluations have emerged...
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How can the GCF be faster, better, smarter?
Findings from the Forward-looking Performance Review of the GCF.
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Independent Review recommends changes to the Green Climate Fund
The world’s largest funding body for climate change actions, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), has been urged in an independent Review to adopt several changes if it is to remain at the forefront of supporting and financing...
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Throughout the year, IEU releases a wealth of new material for our online audience including a variety of videos, infographics, and podcasts.
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Evaluation policy
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In the terms of reference for the 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....
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Evidence reviews
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The IEU believes it is important for the GCF to use global evidence to learn what works, what doesn’t, for whom, why and by how much. The IEU’s evidence reviews assemble global evidence on topics that are...
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Evidence gap map: Forestry
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This evidence gap map expanded upon a previous study conducted by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation related to forest conservation interventions in low- and middle-income countries. This review...
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Evidence gap map: Adaptation
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This 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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Climate Resilience Pathways of Rural Households. Evidence from Ethiopia
This paper explores the resilience capacity of rural Ethiopian households after the drought shock occurred in 2011.
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Evidence review: Private sector investments in mitigation
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Private sector investments have the potential to contribute significantly to climate change mitigation. This evidence review will produce an evidence gap map, an intervention heat map, and a systematic review....
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Evidence review: Transformational change
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This evidence review will combine two different evidence gap maps into one learning exercise on transformational change.
We will indirectly review the evidence on transformational change in two sectors where...
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Distributional impacts of soil erosion on agricultural productivity and welfare in Malawi
We investigate the economic distributional effects of soil loss in Malawi, where erosion deprives rural households of the natural capital necessary to boost agricultural production and lifts food security.
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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 science can be a potential solution for this last mile problem. It applies insights from ‘nudges’ and ‘boosting’ for a sample of ten projects by the...
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Good will hunting: Challenges of theory-based impact evaluations for climate investments in a multilateral setting
In 2018, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) initiated a multi-year Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) programme to understand what works in climate interventions, for whom, how much and why. LORTA supports...
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Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environment
Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are...
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Soil and nutrients loss in Malawi: an economic assessment
This report analyses the economic impact of both soil and nutrient loss in Malawi with new countryrepresentative data on soil and nutrients loss indicators collected through field surveys, merged with detailed climatic...
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Collective Action on Forest Governance: An Institutional Analysis of the Cambodian Community Forest System
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Understanding financial risks for smallholder farmers in low and middle-income countries: what do we know and not know?
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Perceptions of and Adaptation to Climate Variability in Northern Ethiopia: A Case Study from Lasta and Beyeda Districts, Amhara Region
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Financing CDM projects through debt-for-efficiency swaps? Case study evidence from a Uruguayan wind farm project
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Climate change adaptation in Ethiopia: To what extent does social protection influence livelihood diversification?
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Social Protection and Climate Change: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice
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Corruption in cyclone preparedness and relief efforts in coastal Bangladesh: lessons for climate adaptation?
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The Pitfalls and Potential of Debt-for-Nature Swaps: A US-Indonesian Case Study
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