The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the world’s only multilateral institution that has addressed a broad range of environmental challenges spanning the full spectrum of human-ecological connections. Through its projects and programmatic approaches, it aims to create interlinkages and synergies across focal areas and planetary boundaries
This seventh comprehensive evaluation of the GEF (OPS7) provides solid evaluative evidence drawn from 34 separate evaluations conducted since OPS6 to inform the negotiations for the eighth replenishment of the GEF. It also draws on the terminal evaluation reviews of 1,806 completed GEF projects and covers the entire GEF portfolio of 4,786 approved projects from the pilot phase through June 15, 2021.
The report is organized along three themes: what works in the GEF, how things work in the GEF, and why things work in the GEF.