News & Events related to the GEF Independent Evaluation Office (IEO)
News & Events
Communities of Practice & Poster Session
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.
Environment 4: Evaluation approaches for assessing integrated environmental and socio-economic cobenefits
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.
Joint IDEAS/3rd International Conference - Keynote (I) Address
Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK on Sustainability, equity and the politics of transformation: opportunities and challenges for evaluation
Chair: Indran Naidoo, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP
Environment 2: Drivers of Sustainability
The session on Drivers of Sustainability includes four presentations that bring varied perspectives to the topic. The presentation on "Assessing Sustainable Development" discusses how community focused development interventions may address sustainability.
3rd International Conference (2019)
The GEF Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) together with the Earth-Eval Community of Practice (CoP) organized the Third International Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development in collaboration with IDEAS Global Assembly (GA).
Session 4 - Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development
Session with Anu Saxén, Karen Odhiambo, Mike Spilsbury and Michael Wells
Chair: Juha Uitto
Sponsors: GEF and Finland
Environment 3: Adaptation: Lessons from recent experience
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
Opening Session: Official opening of both conferences
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
Environment 1: Transformational change: Processes and Impact
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:
Workshop 8 - Evaluating at the Nexus of Development and Environment: Challenges and Opportunities
Global environmental changes are occurring at a faster pace than previously thought. In several areas, damage to the global environment has exceeded critical levels and threatens to lead to irreversible changes in global ecosystems.