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
Over the past year the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) has worked on an
Summer reading: Evaluating climate change action for sustainable development
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
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
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
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
Resilience is based on complex connections between social, environmental, and economic domains.
Learning that Can't Wait - CIF Learning and Evaluation Initiative
Urgency is a word often associated with climate change.
Measuring resilience of adaptation interventions and beyond - Adaptation Futures 2016
The Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF (IEO) recently organized two panel sessions at the
Evaluation and Adaptation Pathways
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
Are we ready, will we ever be? The conversation about professionalization in evaluation has a long history, and often raises much concern and interest.