Adaptation and Climate Resilience

Dr. Christine Wörlen is a member of the Technical Evaluation Reference Group of the Adaptation Fund (AF-TERG) and an internationally renowned expert in the area of climate change evaluation. She is also the founder of Arepo, a Germany-based climate change advisory company. International activities brought her to all regions of the world, such as China, Thailand, India, South Africa, West Africa, USA, Canada and Mexico. As a Programme Manager at the Global Environment Facility in the period 2002 - 2007, she was responsible for renewable energy and new low-GHG emitting energy technologies and approved grants of more than $100 million annually for projects in developing countries and countries in transition. She has worked on evaluations and evaluation methodologies consistently since 2009, for numerous intergovernmental agencies that are working in climate change, such as the GEF, GCF, and several bilateral donors. A seminal evaluation was the strategic evaluation on ecosystems-based adaptation for the German IKI.

Garrett has been with the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Independent Evaluation Department since 2015 and leads evaluations of ADB’s climate change, environment, agriculture, water and urban operations. He has been based in Asia since 2008 working with several development organizations. Prior to that he was with the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and holds an honors degree in environmental sciences and PhD in hydrogeology from Trinity College Dublin.

Lauren Kelly oversees the thematic evaluations for the Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Global Practices of the World Bank. With over twenty years of international evaluation experience, Ms. Kelly has led multiple influential evaluations and managed several Board level engagements that have deepened development impact and contributed to evidence based decision and policy making within the World Bank Group. She is currently leading IEG’s evaluations of the World Bank’s Engagement in Situations of Conflict and the Natural Resource Degradation and Human Vulnerability Nexus. With a background in conflict management, she has also made significant contributions in the field of natural resources, land use, and conflict and has worked extensively on pastoral and farmer relations in Africa.

Maria Fernanda joined the office of Evaluation and Oversight in 2016. Prior to joining OVE, Maria Fernanda was a Research Fellow in the Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness (SPD) of the Inter-American Development Bank since August 2013. Before that, she worked as an advisor in the sector policy division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Colombia, and the antitrust division of the Colombian Trade Commission. Her interest focuses on productive sectors, in particular topics related to cooperatives, technology adoption, food security and productivity. She recently led the Independet Country Program Review of Peru in July 2022, and the PCRs and XSRs review process and report in 2020. Maria Fernanda holds a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Stefano heads the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning department at IIED. He is an evaluation specialist, former council member of the UK Evaluation Society, former advocacy lead of EVALSDGs, editor of the briefing series Effective evaluation for the SDGs, lead author of the guidebook Evaluation to connect national priorities, a guide for commissioners and managers, and co-author of the practical guide: From what works to what will work. Integrating climate risks into sustainable development evaluation
Stefano has led, managed and contributed to evaluations for the GEF-IEO, DFID, Comic Relief, SIDA, Irish Aid, DANIDA, the Foreign Commonwealth Office, and the Department for Business, Energy & Industry Strategy (BEIS). As a peer reviewer and advisor, he has provided advice to the journal Evaluation of the European Evaluation Society (EES), the Commonwealth Secretariat, BEIS, the Humanitarian Leadership Academy, MOPAN, and the Prime Minister’s Office of Finland. He has set up monitoring and evaluation systems with a strong focus on learning at Search for Common Ground, Comic Relief and IIED.
His most recent work focuses on integrating different and uncertain climate futures into evaluations to achieve better planning for sustainable development.

Stephen Hutton is an evaluator with expertise on environment and climate change topics, and is the coordinator for IEG’s work stream on climate change and environmental sustainability. Stephen has conducted evaluations of World Bank activities in environment and environment-adjacent sectors since 2009, including major evaluations on enabling environment for climate action, disaster risk reduction, outcome orientation and the country level evaluation system, global convening power, environmental sustainability, results and performance of the World Bank Group, pollution abatement, and others; other evaluations on , climate change monitoring and evaluation, environmental and social risk management in policy lending, environmental policy lending and pandemic preparedness, and a wide range of field and desk-based project evaluations.