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Annual Performance Report 2004 This is the first GEF Annual Performance Report prepared by the GEF Evaluation Office. It represents the first step towards an independent assessment of the performance of the GEF’s portfolio and focuses mainly on elapsed times in the preparation of projects, the quality of terminal evaluations submitted at the end of project implementation, and the quality of monitoring and evaluation systems within projects. This APR does not include a chapter on results but focuses more on process issues. It contains a series of... |
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UNEP-GEF Toolkit Evaluation
The aim of this evaluation is twofold. Firstly, to assess the degree to which the UNEP-GEF Toolkits, used for the development of National Biosafety Frameworks (NBFs) are consistent with the Cartagena Protocol, responsive to country needs, and of sufficient professional quality. Secondly, to get a good overview of what the general issues/difficulties are that respondents encountered during the process of setting up a |
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Third Overall Performance Study of the GEF (OPS3) The team for the Third Overall Performance Study of the GEF (OPS3), which took place between September 2004 and June 2005, was charged with evaluating the
Overall Performance Studies (OPS) are... |
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Biodiversity Program Study 2004
The objective of the Biodiversity Program Study is to provide the GEF Council, the GEF Secretariat and its Biodiversity Team, the GEF Biodiversity Task Force, and the general biodiversity community with an assessment of how the GEF Biodiversity Program is performing and recommendations on how to continue its development. In addition, the study provides information on how the GEF implements its biodiversity focal area, discusses the difficulties in measuring achievements and impacts in this focal area,... |
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Climate Change Program Study 2004
The climate change program study evaluates performance and results, and how results were achieved. Given the size of the GEF portfolio and the need to identify overall lessons, this study focuses on outcomes and impacts of groups of mitigation projects, rather than detailed or immediate project outputs
The study draws on information gathered from a comprehensive portfolio review, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission data and development statistics, and two in-depth project cluster reviews within energy... |
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Review of Financial Arrangements in GEF Support to Biodiversity Projects
This study was prepared as part of the Global Environment Facility Monitoring and Evaluation (GEFME) work program for 2002. The rationale for the study emerged from the findings and conclusions of several earlier evaluations that suggested biodiversity initiatives supported by the GEF needed to become financially self-sufficient after completing the GEF-funded phase.
This document consists of three parts. The first presents the context and scope of the study.... |
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Program Performance Indicators for GEF International Waters Programs (2003) |
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The GEF Energy-Efficient Product Portfolio
From 1991 to 2000, the GEF approved eight projects designed to stimulate markets for energy-efficient products—lights, refrigerators, industrial boilers, and building chillers—in 12 developing and transitional countries. Project costs for this portfolio are about half a billion dollars, with GEF contributions of over $90 million leveraging additional co-financing of $430 million from other sources. Many of these projects take so-called “market transformation” approaches, which gained favor in developed... |
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Contributions to Global and Regional Agreements. Review of International Waters Program. 2002
This paper is a background document to the International Waters Program Study of 2002. It presents a review of GEF actions that have contributed to the development and implementation of water-related global and regional environmental agreements. The review is regionally based to emphasize linkages between global frameworks and regional responses, and between general principles and the specificities of the transboundary issues of each... |
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Results from the GEF Climate Change Program 2002 |