Preparations for the Fourth
Overall
Performance Study have Started
The GEF is replenished by donors every four years. All replenishments have been informed by "overall performance studies," which have provided an independent assessment of the achievements of the GEF up to the time of the study.
The GEF Evaluation Office has been asked by the GEF Council to undertake the Fourth Overall Performance Study (OPS4), which will be an important document for the Fifth Replenishment of the GEF.
The overall objective of OPS4 will be to assess the extent to which the GEF is achieving its main objectives.
The GEF Evaluation Office has formulated five clusters of questions on which the study will focus on:
- the niche and added value of the GEF
- results of the GEF
- relevance of the GEF
- performance issues of the GEF
- resource mobilization and financial management.
In collecting and analyzing data and drawing conclusions and recommendations, OPS4 will be based on a wide variety of sources of information, methods of analyzing them, and appropriate meta-evaluation techniques to ensure that OPS4 will be a valid, credible and legitimate report.
The Evaluation Office will follow a "mixed methods" and "theory based" approach to ensure that questions are properly understood and researched.
The draft Terms of Reference were shared with the GEF Council in June and will be finalized in July. OPS4 will be conducted during the coming year and will be submitted to the replenishment in mid 2009.
Additional information on the OPS4 can be found on the GEF Evaluation Office website at www.gefeo.org.
Comments and reactions are welcome at OPS4@TheGEF.org.
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