The evaluation departments of countries, bilaterals and international organizations, as well as philanthropic foundations and private and social enterprises should
increase their collaboration, as the war on climate change requires a concentrated
effort, rather than everybody focusing on their own constituency and their own
accountability. Your children and your children’s children will one day ask you, as
an evaluator, what you have done to stop climate change. Your response should not
be that you have provided evidence to your government or Board on how the money
was spent, but on what is useful and a potential winner in our battle to keep the
planet habitable for humankind.
References
ADB/IED. (2014). Real-time evaluation of ADB’s initiatives to support access to climate change.
Manila: Asian Development Bank Independent Evaluation Department. [Thematic Evaluation
Study].
Arndt, C., Jones, S., & Tarp, F. (2010). Aid, growth, and development: Have we come full circle?
(Working paper no. 2010/96). Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
Dollar, D., & Prichett, L. (1998). Assessing aid. What works, what doesn’t, and why. New York:
Oxford University Press.
Frechette, A., Minoli de Bresser, & Hofstede, R. (2014). External evaluation of the United Nations
Collaborative Programme on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in
developing countries (the UN-REDD Programme). Volume I – Final report. Retrieved from
http://tinyurl.com/zoavwkm on 17 Apr 2016.
Gaia Consulting Oy, Creatura Ltd., Zoi Environment Network. (2014). Report on effectiveness
2014: Swiss international cooperation in climate change 2000–2012. Bern: SDC and SECO.
GEF/EO. (2010). OPS4: Progress toward impact. Fourth overall performance study of the GEF.
Executive version. Washington, DC: Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office.
GEF/IEO. (2014). OPS5 fifth overall performance study of the GEF: Final report: At the
crossroads for higher impact. Washington, DC: Global Environment Facility Independent
Evaluation Office.
GEF/IEO. (2015). GEF country portfolio evaluation: Vanuatu and SPREP (1991–2012). Evaluation
Report No. 98. Washington, DC: Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office.
GEF/IEO and UNDP/IEO. (2015). Joint GEF-UNDP Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme.
Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office, Washington DC and United
Nations Development Programme, New York.
ICF Consulting and partners. (2005). OPS3: Progressing toward environmental results. Executive
version. Washington, DC: Global Environment Facility Office of Monitoring and Evaluation.
ICF International. (2014). Independent evaluation of the climate investment funds. Washington,
DC: World Bank.
IDB/OVE. (2014). Climate change at the IDB: Building resilience and reducing emissions.
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank Office of Evaluation and Oversight.
[Thematic Evaluation].
LTS International, et al. (2014). Real-time evaluation of Norway’s international climate and forest
initiative: Synthesising report 2007–2013. Oslo: Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation.
Mosley, P. (1987). Foreign aid: Its defense and reform. Lexington: University of Kentucky.
World Bank/IEG. (2009). Climate change and the World Bank Group. Phase I: An evaluation of
World Bank win-win energy policy reforms. Washington, DC: Independent Evaluation Group
of the World Bank.
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increase their collaboration, as the war on climate change requires a concentrated
effort, rather than everybody focusing on their own constituency and their own
accountability. Your children and your children’s children will one day ask you, as
an evaluator, what you have done to stop climate change. Your response should not
be that you have provided evidence to your government or Board on how the money
was spent, but on what is useful and a potential winner in our battle to keep the
planet habitable for humankind.
References
ADB/IED. (2014). Real-time evaluation of ADB’s initiatives to support access to climate change.
Manila: Asian Development Bank Independent Evaluation Department. [Thematic Evaluation
Study].
Arndt, C., Jones, S., & Tarp, F. (2010). Aid, growth, and development: Have we come full circle?
(Working paper no. 2010/96). Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
Dollar, D., & Prichett, L. (1998). Assessing aid. What works, what doesn’t, and why. New York:
Oxford University Press.
Frechette, A., Minoli de Bresser, & Hofstede, R. (2014). External evaluation of the United Nations
Collaborative Programme on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in
developing countries (the UN-REDD Programme). Volume I – Final report. Retrieved from
http://tinyurl.com/zoavwkm on 17 Apr 2016.
Gaia Consulting Oy, Creatura Ltd., Zoi Environment Network. (2014). Report on effectiveness
2014: Swiss international cooperation in climate change 2000–2012. Bern: SDC and SECO.
GEF/EO. (2010). OPS4: Progress toward impact. Fourth overall performance study of the GEF.
Executive version. Washington, DC: Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office.
GEF/IEO. (2014). OPS5 fifth overall performance study of the GEF: Final report: At the
crossroads for higher impact. Washington, DC: Global Environment Facility Independent
Evaluation Office.
GEF/IEO. (2015). GEF country portfolio evaluation: Vanuatu and SPREP (1991–2012). Evaluation
Report No. 98. Washington, DC: Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office.
GEF/IEO and UNDP/IEO. (2015). Joint GEF-UNDP Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme.
Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office, Washington DC and United
Nations Development Programme, New York.
ICF Consulting and partners. (2005). OPS3: Progressing toward environmental results. Executive
version. Washington, DC: Global Environment Facility Office of Monitoring and Evaluation.
ICF International. (2014). Independent evaluation of the climate investment funds. Washington,
DC: World Bank.
IDB/OVE. (2014). Climate change at the IDB: Building resilience and reducing emissions.
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank Office of Evaluation and Oversight.
[Thematic Evaluation].
LTS International, et al. (2014). Real-time evaluation of Norway’s international climate and forest
initiative: Synthesising report 2007–2013. Oslo: Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation.
Mosley, P. (1987). Foreign aid: Its defense and reform. Lexington: University of Kentucky.
World Bank/IEG. (2009). Climate change and the World Bank Group. Phase I: An evaluation of
World Bank win-win energy policy reforms. Washington, DC: Independent Evaluation Group
of the World Bank.
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