Is the Environment Being Left Behind? What are evaluations telling us?

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Is the Environment Being Left Behind? What are evaluations telling us? Dr. Juha Uitto Director, GEF Independent Evaluation Office People and the Planet: National Evaluation Capacity Istanbul, Turkey, 18-20 October 2017

Planetary boundaries Global trends: Population growth, Urbanization, Consumption, Desertification, Land degradation, Climate change Human-driven climate change Land system change Phosphorous and nitrogen pollution Loss of biosphere integrity

Sustainable Development Goals Directly environmental: Climate action (13), Life below water (14), Life on land (15), Clean water (6), Clean energy (7), Sustainable cities (11) Dependent on the environment: No poverty (1), Zero hunger (2), Good health (3), Gender (5) …

Land degradation: Value for money $1:1.08 Land degradation: Value for money

Scale

61% 59% Broader adoption and transformational change of projects achieved broader adoption 61% of projects achieved environmental stress reduction 59% Mechanisms for broader adoption: Mainstreaming and replication Scaling-up and market change Success factors for transformational change: Clear ambition in designs Addressing market reforms through policies Mechanisms for financial sustainability Quality of implementation and execution May be achieved by projects of different size

Implications for evaluation Must look beyond individual projects Define system boundaries Unintended consequences Do interventions make a difference? Sustainable development lens!