This impact evaluation of GEF support to protected areas worldwide includes both qualitative and quantitative evaluation approaches. It draws on evidence from global databases on protected area management effectiveness tracking tools, species population time series, and remote sensing of forest cover, but also draws on in-depth evidence from visits to seven countries and 28 protected areas.

Global multi-stakeholder consultative processes to frame the future priorities of the global evaluation community EvalPartners, (http://www.mymande.org/evalpartners) the global movement to strengthen national evaluation capacities for equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluation systems, declared 2015 as the International year of Evaluation.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) provides funds to recipient countries to protect the global environment. But compared to how big the world's environmental problems are, the funds the GEF provides are very small. That is why GEF's partners have the bigger role of expanding and building on the initiatives that GEF funds.

Carlo Carugi, Senior Evaluation Officer and team leader of the country portfolio evaluation (CPE) team at the Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO), presented a webinar on systematic triangulation as a mixed-method approach in evaluation.

The Fifth Overall Performance Study (OPS5) of the Global Environment Facility provides an independent assessment of the GEF. Its purpose is to assess the extent to which the GEF is achieving its objectives and to identify potential improvements.