Table of Contents
Foreword
Michael Quinn Patton
Preface
Juha I. Uitto
Part 1: Introduction and Conceptual Background
1. Evaluating Environment in International Development: An Introduction
Juha I. Uitto
2. A Global Public Goods Perspective on Environment and Poverty
Rob D. van den Berg
3. Evaluation at the Nexus: Evaluating Sustainable Development in the 2020s
Andy Rowe
4. Poverty, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Too Complex to Evaluate?
Hazel Todd and David Todd
Part 2: Approaches and Challenges in Evaluating Environment and Sustainable Development
5. Using Big Data and Geospatial Approaches in Evaluating Environmental Interventions
Anupam Anand and Geeta Batra
6. Multiple Actors and Confounding Factors: Evaluating Impact in Complex Social-ecological Systems
Aaron Zazueta and Jeneen R. Garcia
7. Assessing Progress Towards Impact in Environmental Programmes
David Todd and Rob Craig
8. Meta-Assessment of Climate Mitigation Evaluations
Christine Wörlen
9. A Programme Theory Approach to Evaluating Normative Environmental Interventions
Segbedzi Norgbey and Michael Spilsbury
10. From Evaluation of Joint programmes to Joint Evaluation of SDGs-ready Interventions: Lessons from the Joint GEF-UNDP Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme
Carlo Carugi and Heather Bryant
11. Evaluating the Poverty-Environment Nexus in Africa
Michael Stocking
12. Small Grants, Big Impacts: Aggregation Challenges
Sulan Chen and Juha I. Uitto
13. Green Economy Performance of Environmental Initiatives in Latin-America and the Caribbean
Ronal Gainza and Simon Lobach
14. Evaluating International Support to Transboundary Aquifer Management Programmes
Alan Fox
15. Disaster Risk Management in the SDG Era
Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu
16. The CGIAR Approach to Evaluation of Climate Change, Environment, and Natural Resources Management
Roberto La Rovere