Evaluation Office Policies and Guidelines

The Evaluation Office develops the policy, related guidelines and administrative procedures for monitoring and evaluation in the GEF. The policy and guidelines help project managers and Agency and GEF Secretariat staff plan and conduct monitoring and evaluation.

The GEF Monitoring and Evaluation Policy

The GEF Monitoring and Evaluation Policy provides norms and standards for the GEF Secretariat and the GEF Evaluation Office. The policy contains minimum requirements for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for GEF-funded activities covering project design, application of M&E at the project level, and project evaluation.

Ethical Guidelines

The GEF Evaluation Office Ethical Guidelines provide guidance to its staff and consultants, on ethical behavior; to ensure that evaluations are free of bias, transparent and considerate of stakeholder rights and interests.

The ethical guidelines contain specific provisions to prevent conflict of interest on three levels: institutional, staff and consultants hired to contribute to evaluations. The guidelines will be periodically revised in the light of experience and comments received from external review. [French] [Spanish]

Other Guidelines

Baskets The Evaluation Office supports the GEF Secretariat, the Implementing and Executing Agencies and project managers in their monitoring and evaluation work by establishing tools and guidelines for conducting:

            a) Terminal Evaluations
            b) Country Portfolio Evaluations
            c) Impact Evaluations
            d) Administrative procedures