Blog Posts

Blog Posts

Blog Posts

We collect knowledge-rich blogs from evaluators and persons both within and without our community. These blogs offer writers the opportunity to narrate in less formal writing styles their personal evaluation experiences, capture evaluation findings in easy-to-understand ways while engaging the community with other relevant knowledge.

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Evaluation of gender mainstreaming in the GEF - Part 1

Dennis Bours
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Over the past year the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) has worked on an

Summer reading: Evaluating climate change action for sustainable development

Lee Cando
GEF Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO)
Consultant
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Recently, Climate-Eval and the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) hosted a webinar to launch the book, Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustain

Strengthening Evaluation Capacity in Organisations to Improve Adaptation Outcomes

Nathalie Beaulieu
Concert-Eau
Independent Consultant
Guy Jobbins
Aliou Diouf
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In 2016, the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) program invited us to prepare a working paper to share lessons learned while strengthe

Rethinking Evaluation - Sustaining a Focus on Sustainability

Caroline Heider
Independent
Director General
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Looking back on years of using the sustainability evaluation criterion, one has to ask - how well have we done? The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have brought renewed attention to sustainability.

Adaptation strategies in the Gandaki River Basin of Nepal: Need for Transformational change

Bimal Raj Regmi
ICIMOD
Governance Specialist
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Climate change adaptation practices are comprised of local knowledge and practices. These autonomous and planned interventions are designed to reduce risk and enhance the resilience of vulnerable households and communities with respect to their livelihoods and economic well-being.

Overcoming Challenges in a Shifting Landscape - Building Resilience

Caroline Heider
Independent
Director General
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Resilience is based on complex connections between social, environmental, and economic domains.

Learning that Can't Wait - CIF Learning and Evaluation Initiative

Joe Dickman
The MasterCard Foundation
Deputy Director, Research, Evaluation and Learning
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Urgency is a word often associated with climate change.

Evaluation and Adaptation Pathways

Leon Hermans
TU Delft
Assistant professor in policy analysis
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Policy analysts have a new addition to their toolbox, one that recognizes the importance of deep uncertainty and the resulting need for adaptive planning approaches. The use of adaptation pathways, as this new addition is known, supports the development of adaptive policies and programmes.

Professionalization With a View to Eval2030

Caroline Heider
Independent
Director General
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Are we ready, will we ever be? The conversation about professionalization in evaluation has a long history, and often raises much concern and interest.