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The IEO has been working hard with its partners – the Earth-Eval community of practice and IDEAS – to prepare for the Third International Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development that will take place in Prague in the beginning of October. The event comes five years after the previous conference in Washington, DC, which resulted in an authoritative book on Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development. I am very pleased to note the significant interest that the Third Conference has generated among leading evaluation practitioners, commissioners, and thinkers.
 
In this newsletter, we also highlight new evaluations that the IEO has completed for presentation to the GEF Council in its 56^th session in mid-June. These include a Value for Money Analysis of GEF Interventions in Support of Sustainable Forest Management, Evaluation of GEF Support to Scaling up Impact, and the Annual Performance Report with an in-depth focus on the GEF Sustainable Transport Portfolio. We will also present the Annual Evaluation Report and a Special Study of Completed Projects under the Least Developed Countries and Special Climate Change Funds to their Council
 
I hope you will enjoy reading more about these initiatives here below. Please note that there is still time to submit proposals for presentation at the Third Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development. 

2019 IDEAS Global Assembly & Third International Conference
on Evaluating Environment and Development

The GEF IEO and Earth-Eval Community of Practice will organize the Third International Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development in collaboration with the IDEAS Global Assembly from October 2-4, 2019 in Prague. Pre-conference special workshops will be held September 30 – October 1, 2019. Registration for the workshops and/or conference are now open (early bird fees available until June 15).

Participants willing to present a proposal for consideration in the programme of the 2019 IDEAS Global Assembly and Third International Conference should consider how they can contribute to the issues mentioned under one of the six thematic streams of work. 

The Third International Conference will be under the thematic theme 'Evaluating Environment and Development' and invites proposals that cover environmental topics, including natural resources management, biodiversity conservation, land degradation, sustainable forestry, water management, as well as climate change mitigation, adaptation and carbon sequestration interventions. It will also cover sustainable development from the perspective of coupled natural and human systems, evaluating the social and economic benefits and trade-offs associated with environmental interventions. Specific sub-themes will include but are not limited to: 1) Transformative change towards environmental sustainability; 2) Innovation related to environment and climate change programs; 3) Climate change adaptation; 4) Climate, environment, fragility and conflict; and 5) Big data, indicators, and geospatial tools

Download the template for abstract proposals, follow the guidelines and join us in Prague! The deadline to send proposals is 9 June 2019.

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Recently Completed Evaluations

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Local, National, Global:
Evaluative Evidence of Scaling Up the SDGs

This paper examines the importance of the scale of implementation of SDGs in assessing progress at local, regional and national levels and the challenges related to the implementation architecture that could connect global and national policy to results achieved at the local level.

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Jeneen Reyes Garcia: With Feet in Two Worlds

“When I graduated, I swore I’d never take a job that would make me wear closed shoes.”

Well, let’s just say that when Jeneen Reyes Garcia made that declaration, as a young, sandal-clad, beach-loving native of the Philippines, she hadn’t yet imagined one day occupying a high-rise office in the heart of Washington, D.C. Now eight years and counting as an evaluation analyst and officer with GEF (and with a drawer full of heels in her office), Garcia has come to find the corporate tradeoffs well worth “the psychic rewards of loving the work I do.”

Navigating between the gritty trenches of environmental conservation and the polished headquarters of GEF, Garcia’s talents for bridging the two come nurtured from childhood. She grew up in downtown Davao, a Philippine city of nearly two million people. Yet her family managed to balance the concrete and crowds with gardens of coconut, mango, and cacao. They kept menageries of pigs, ducks, chickens, and cats. They lived only five minutes from the coast, and took full advantage: “We went to the beach a lot,” says Garcia.

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