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Session Title: Valuing Diversity: How to Construct Consensus for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Policy with Multiple Stakeholders - Experiences With the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
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Panel Session 952 to be held in Pacific B on Saturday, Nov 5, 2:20 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsored by the Evaluation Policy TIG
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| Baljit Wadhwa, Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office, bwadhwa@thegef.org
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| Abstract:
The Global Environment Facility (GEF), a partnership of international agencies has the mandate to finance improvements in the global environment. Agencies work in partnership and with local and international governments and organizations.
Reforms at the GEF led its Council to request the Evaluation Office and Secretariat to work with the GEF partnership and revise the GEF Monitoring & Evaluation policy for its next programming period. The revised policy was presented and adopted by Council in November 2010.
This session will provide a template for integrating views from diverse stakeholders based on GEF's experiences.
The process of developing guidelines for results based tracking, quality assurance, compliance and inclusive engagement has led to a policy aiming to meet the needs of management, implementing agencies, evaluators and beneficiaries.
Perspectives will be shared with the audience as lessons for navigating organization's unique systems to improve measurement and evaluation throughout the lifecycle of programs and projects.
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Revising GEF's M&E Policy: Arriving at Minimum Standards in a Partnership With Diverse Sets of M&E Requirements
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| Carlo Caruggi, Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office, ccarugi@thegef.org
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The GEF evaluation policy takes a "minimum requirements" approach, but assumes that the full agency M&E requirements will be applied to GEF operations.
This presentation will present the new policy, highlighting revision since the original in 2006. Carlo will then discuss the Office's experience of integrating diverse perspectives from across the partnership in development of the policy.
Carlo joined the GEF Evaluation Office in July 2009, after having worked for 2 years in the Evaluation Service of FAO in Rome. He is an Italian national with more than 21 years of experience in environment and development.
Carlo holds an MSc in Agricultural Science from the University of Bologna in Italy and in 2000 he completed a MSc on Environment and Development at the Imperial College at Wye, University of London, UK. He is also trained in Environmental Impact Assessment from the University of Milano in Italy.
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Delicate Balances in Nature and in Evaluation: The Coming Together of Rigorous Results Tracking Through Diverse and Flexible Mechanisms
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| Dima Reda, Global Environment Facility Secretariat, dreda@thegef.org
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GEF Projects are implemented through several multi-lateral agencies. The GEF also has six focal areas, each with its own unique objectives and methodologies for measuring outcomes and impacts.
Dima will speak to the challenge of address the unique needs of this diverse array of stakeholders and specific focal areas or recipient countries during design of the policy.
Dima Reda coordinates Results Based Management for the GEF. She works closely with the focal areas (Biodiversity, Climate Change, Land Degradation, International Waters, and Chemicals) to report portfolio level results from over 600 GEF projects currently under implementation.
Prior to joining the GEF, Dima worked for the United Nations, UNDP & UNEP, to support the sustainable management and restoration of the Iraqi Marshlands as well as on renewable energy and energy efficiency issues.
Dima holds a Master in Environmental Science and MBA from Yale University and a BA in biology from Brown University.
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Expanding Evaluation Culture Through Develoment of the United Nations Development Program GEF Project Evaluation Guidance
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| Alan Fox, United Nations Development Program, alan.fox@undp.org
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The UNDP recently developed a guidance for GEF project evaluation. Alan will speak to his experience of working with each of the UNDP regional service centers, conferring also with country offices to develop and now training on the policy to improve evaluation quality.
UNDP has a decentralized management style and views the policy development as an opportunity to expand an 'evaluation culture' in many of the countries where they operate.
As the GEF implemented projects provide the most rigorous project evaluation requirements for UNDP, Alan is then in an interesting situation of supporting UNDP and GEF supporting evaluation capacity strengthening in many countries.
Alan Fox serves as Evaluation Adviser in the United Nations Development Programme Evaluation Office. He leads country studies and thematic evaluations, specifically overseeing evaluation of programmes in the environment/energy sectors. Alan joined UNDP in 2009 after previous positions in the US government and as a consultant.
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Valuing Perspectives From the Land: Experiences From Expanding the Role of GEF Focal Points in the Revised M&E Policy
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| Osvaldo Feinstein, Independent Consultant, ofeinstein@yahoo.com
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Osvaldo Feinstein, professor at the Master in Evaluation of the Complutense University, Madrid. Senior consultant with the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group, UNDP’s Evaluation Office and the Evaluation Office of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He has been an adviser to the Spanish Evaluation Agency and a member of the Panel on Monitoring and Evaluation of the CGIAR Science Council. He was an evaluation manager and adviser at the World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department, and a senior evaluator at the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development. Osvaldo has world-wide experience in evaluation and published books and articles on evaluation and development. He has been a consultant with various international development agencies and a professor and lecturer at several universities and at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA)/Barcelona.
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