Moderated by Rob D. van den Berg, Juha Uitto and Daniel Svoboda
Fine-tuning and finalization

Adeline Sibanda, President of the International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) and independent evaluator, Zimbabwe/South Africa on the role of evaluation for the SDGs in Africa

Chair: Ada Ocampo, UNICEF

The session aimed to explore three questions about real time and formative evaluations:

A cocktail reception hosted by the GEF Independent Evaluation and FAO Office of Evaluation discussed the roles of Earth-Eval and Eval Forward communities of practice. The event focused on what the two communities of practices offer.

This session focus was on how best to approach the socio-economic and environment nexus from an evaluation point of view in today's SDG's context. Dr.

The session on Blending Quantitative with Qualitative Analysis in Understanding Change includes four talks on the experiences of various organizations in conducting mixed-method evaluations.

Session with Anu Saxén, Karen Odhiambo, Mike Spilsbury and Michael Wells

Chair: Juha Uitto

Sponsors: GEF and Finland

The third environment session on adaptation to climate change - lessons from recent experience - explores trends in evaluations by the OECD/DAC Network on Development Evaluation, ongoing evaluations on climate change adaptation by the German Institute for Development Evaluation, a systematic revi

Welcome words of Rob D. van den Berg, IDEAS President, Juha I. Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF-IEO) and Martin Pĕlucha, President of CES

This session focused on transformational change in the environment. The discussion focused on issues, processes, and impacts of transformational change. In particular in two main areas: