The Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI), together with the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), hosted the  2019 Asian Evaluation Week. The theme was "Quality Evaluation for Better Results: Local, National, Regional Perspectives". Juha Uitto (Director, GEF IEO) organized a session on evaluative evidence to tackle environmental and development challenges in SIDS.

The GEF IEO participated in the Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG) Spring 2019 meeting hosted by the Black Sea Trade and Development Banks in Thessaloniki, Greece.

As part of the U NEG Evaluation Week's Evaluation Practice Exchange (EPE) Seminar, Juha I. Uitto (GEF IEO Director) organized session 2.2 on 'Taking stock of evaluations towards achieving the vision of 2030 Agenda: Open theory of change' with the following panel members: Oscar Garcia (IFAD), S. Nanthikesan (UNFPA), Patricia Vidal Hurtado (ILO), Veridiana Manour-Mendes (FAO), Juha Uitto (GEF), and Martin Barugahare (UN-Habitat) on Tuesday, May 14, 2019.

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) held its annual meeting for the latest research and applications in geography, sustainability and GIScience. The GEF IEO participated in the following sessions:

Land systems science - Research frontiers and challenges at the intersections of remote sensing and qualitative social-scientific approaches and methods

Chair: Martin Lukas

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The IEO participated in a lunch-break conference on Evaluation in difficult contexts and hard-to-reach areas organized by the Evaluation Support Service of DG DEVCO and the unit 'Results, Monitoring and Evaluation' of DG DEVCO. The focus of the conference was on improving international development evaluation through geospatial data and analysis.

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