Transformational Change for People and the Planet

Juha I. Uitto is Director of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office (IEO). He has more than three decades of experience in international development and environment working in multilateral organizations, academia and as consultant. For the past two decades he has worked as evaluator with the GEF and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) conducting and managing evaluations focusing on the nexus between development and environment. In addition to his fulltime positions, he has served as the Executive Coordinator of the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) in 2009-12 and again 2014. He currently chairs UNEG Working Group on Integrating Environmental and Social Impact into Evaluations. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Rutgers University, Kyoto University and the University of Montana.Geeta Batra is Chief Evaluation Officer and Deputy Director at the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office (IEO). She has 25 years of experience in international development and evaluation in the private sector and at the World Bank. For ten years, she worked with the World Bank on private sector operations and advisory services, and over the last fifteen years she has worked as an evaluator-at the IFC heading the global unit for evaluation of advisory services, at the World Bank managing the portfolio of country and corporate evaluations in the Independent Evaluation Group, and with the GEF IEO conducting and managing evaluations focusing on environment interventions. In addition to managerial responsibilities, she continues to publish evaluation findings in journals and World Bank Group Publications.

• 1. Introduction.- Section I: Transformational Change.- 2. Evaluation for Transformational Change: Learning From Practice.- 3. Transformational Change for Achieving Scale: Lessons for a Greener Recovery.- Section II: Drivers of Sustainability.- 4. Sustainability After Project Completion: Evidence from the GEF.- 5. From the Big Picture to Detailed Observation: The Case of GEF IEO’s Strategic Country Cluster Evaluations.- 6. Staying Small and Beautiful: Enhancing Sustainability in the Small Island Developing States.- 7. Assessing Sustainable Development Interventions.- 8. Can We Assume Sustained Impact? Verifying the Sustainability of Climate Change Mitigation Results.- Section III: Evaluating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation.- 9. Using a Realist Framework to Overcome Evaluation Challenges in the Uncertain Landscape of Carbon Finance.- 10. Evaluation’s Role in Development Projects: Boosting Energy-Efficiency in a Traditional Industry in Chad.- 11. EnablingSystems Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation: Exploring the Role for MEL.- 12. Assessing the Evaluability of Adaptation-focused Interventions: Lessons from the Adaptation Fund.- 13. Evaluating Transformational Adaptation in Smallholder Farming: Insights From an Evidence Review.- Section IV: Evaluation Approaches.- 14. Evaluation at the Endgame: Evaluating Sustainability and the SDGs by Moving Past Dominion and Institutional Capture.- 15. Importance and Utilization of Theory-based Evaluations in the Context of Sustainable Development and Social-Ecological Systems.- 16. Pathway to the Transformative Policy of Agenda 2030: Evaluation of Finland’s Sustainable Development Policy.- 17. Evaluating for Resilient and Sustainable Livelihoods: Applying a Normative Framework to Emerging Realities.- 18. Measuring the Impact of Monitoring: How We Know Transparent Near-Real-Time Data Can Help Save the Forests.- 19. Application of Geospatial Methods in Evaluating Environmental Interventions and Related Socioeconomic Benefits.