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 strategies for CIF and the wider climate finance sector. Since 2016, it has helped deliver CIF’s mandate as a learning laboratory through its pioneering work that has advanced 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 identified through extensive consultations with stakeholders: 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.
Just Transition
A transition towards low-carbon and climate-resilient development — done in a just manner — can create opportunities for environmental sustainability, social equity, and economic prosperity. This theme explores how to support a just transition through the transformational change necessary to address climate change.
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
Amanda Penistone
Alternate contributor country representative
Neha Sharma
CIF AU and E&L Representative
Franka Klingel
MDB representative; Chair of Advisory Group
Jean Mukumwa
Recipient country representative
Nithi Nesadurai
CIF Observer representative
Rob van den Berg
External expert
Tove Sagmo
Contributor country representative
Ulf Moslener
External expert
Nasimjon Rajabov
Recipient country representative
Events
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