The Climate Investment Funds' (CIF) Evaluation and Learning (E&L) Initiative identifies strategic lessons across CIF’s portfolio and enables learning that is timely and relevant, thus helping to inform decisions and drive impact. The E&L Initiative is at the helm of making the CIF’s mandate as a learning laboratory a reality through its pioneering work that advances the understanding of strategically and operationally important topics in climate finance.
The E&L Initiative focuses on the generation of new evidence and applied learning through collaborations and partnerships on five priority learning themes: transformational change; just transition; development impacts; mobilizing climate finance; along with other sector- and program-specific topics. See the full list of E&L studies and activities.
E&L PRIORITY THEMES
TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
This theme aims to better understand how CIF and others working on climate change can effectively contribute to transformational outcomes. CIF’s Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP) advances the understanding of transformational change through facilitated learning and analysis with a diverse set of organizations and individuals from around the world.
Development Impacts
This theme focuses on understanding the contributions of CIF investments to socioeconomic development, such as jobs, livelihoods, social inclusion, resilience to shocks, equity, and institutional strengthening. Through conceptual and analytical work, the theme explores how development impacts in projects can be enhanced, such that development is resilient, fair, just, and transformational.
Mobilizing Climate Finance
This theme focuses on answering crucial questions to maximize the impact of deployed public climate finance. This includes identifying innovative financial instruments for deploying concessional finance and better approaches for engaging with the private sector and other non-state actors, as well as philanthropy, to channel finance for enhanced impact.
Sector- & Program-Specific Topics
This theme assesses various priority program- or sector-related topics and includes mid-term and end-term evaluations of programs. It also covers various topics that cut across the themes above, as well as those specific to different programs, in relation to specific challenges, sectors, or technologies.
E&L ADVISORY GROUP
| Leonardo Beltran |
| Tove Sagmo |
| Daniela Ramos Guimarães de Faria |
| Sumeet Manchanda |
| Archi Rastogi |
| Amanda Penistone |
| Michael Ward |
| Bob Natifu |
Events
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