Environmental projects benefit from the geospatial information, with both targeting and impact evaluation activities able to take advantage of a wide variety of global datasets that examine land cover change, vegetative density, and biodiversity.

The regional evaluation networks ReLAC, REDLACME and the global association of evaluators IDEAS organized a Joint Conference on Evaluation for the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference had a special emphasis on transforming life through global and regional partnerships, with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. The conference discussed and made progress on evaluation approaches, methodologies, institutional frameworks and learning from monitoring and evaluation evidence.

Staff members of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office participated in various sessions at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Conference in early November. See information below:

Gender, M&E and Environmental Programming in Climate Finance Institutions - Learning What Works and How (Session #2773)
GEF IEO Presenters: Dennis Bours, Evaluation Officer; Juha I Uitto, Director
Wednesday, November 8 from 6:15 pm -7:15 pm
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The IEPPEC Conference was held in Bangkok, Thailand from November 1-2, 2017.

• November 1st: Juha Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF, took part in panel soapbox session on the Sixth Comprehensive Evaluation of the GEF (OPS6)
• November 2nd: 7Uitto also participated in the session on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policies, Indicators, and Evaluations

The UNDP IEO and the Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS co-hosted with the Government of Turkey, the 2017 NEC Conference in Istanbul from 16 to 20 October 2017. The theme of the Conference was People, Planet and Progress in the SDG Era.