Not in a hundred years has the world been hit by a pandemic this deadly. This means that most of us –whether project designer, implementer or evaluator—have no previous experience on how to cope with a crisis of this scale, nor anticipated it when assessing and preparing against risks to project outcomes. Even worse, how do project managers handle not just one but two shocks during project implementation?
Blogs
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.
Displaying 11 - 15 of 176When Life Gives You Lemons…or a Pandemic - Finding Opportunity in Disaster
 On: Thursday, Apr 30, 2020
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Programs combating Illegal Wildlife Trade are instrumental in controlling and preventing pandemics
 On: Monday, Apr 27, 2020
Blog co-author: Geeta Batra, Chief Evaluation Officer at the GEF Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO)
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Evaluation must rise to the challenge of pandemic in the nexus of nature and humanity
 On: Monday, Apr 27, 2020
In her 2020 Earth Day blog the GEF CEO Naoko Ishii emphasized that the COVID-19 crisis is fundamentally an environmental crisis. I couldn’t agree more. Sure, at the face of it, this is first a health crisis, a pandemic with tragic consequences to people who get infected, especially those who perish or who see loved ones perish. Economies of families, communities, companies, states and countries are stressed, even destroyed. It’... |
Evaluating the Impact of Environmental Interventions during a Global Quarantine
 On: Friday, Apr 17, 2020
by Geeta Batra, Dan Runfola, Heather Baier Introduction - |
Evaluating Environmental Peacebuilding: Difficult but Necessary
 On: Tuesday, Apr 07, 2020
Blog co-author: Juha I. Uitto, Director, GEF Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO)
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