Jeneen R. Garcia serves as a Senior Evaluation Officer at the GEF IEO, where she leads evaluations that span diverse focal areas and cross-cutting themes. Her work has included assessing multistakeholder partnerships, private sector engagement, environmental and socioeconomic synergies and trade-offs, scaling up impacts, behavior change, and policy coherence. She has been dedicated to piloting innovative methodologies that bridge qualitative and quantitative approaches, while integrating natural sciences, social sciences, and communication design within the evaluation field. Among Jeneen’s contributions are the development of conceptual frameworks and tools for evaluating impact within complex adaptive systems, such as the now-mainstreamed GEF Theory of Change Framework.
Before joining the GEF IEO, Jeneen worked on research, education, and multimedia communications initiatives supporting multistakeholder environmental governance and community-based natural resource management in the bilateral and non-profit sectors in her native Philippines. She also has significant experience as a freelance writer, editor, and photographer for various publications.
Jeneen holds a Joint European MSc in Water and Coastal Management, obtained through an Erasmus Mundus scholarship in four European countries. She has a bachelor's degree in environmental science and conducted a master’s research in Marine Biology. In addition, she has certificates in evaluation from the International Program on Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Jeneen served as Program Co-Chair of the Systems in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (SETIG) of the American Evaluation Association for three years (2019-2021).