Acknowledgments

This report could not have been prepared without the timely and invaluable assistance of the task team leaders and staff of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). They provided documentation and verified the information presented here, which is drawn largely from draft and final GEF IEO evaluation reports.The IEO would like to acknowledge the time and insights generously provided by the GEF Agencies, the GEF Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, the GEF Secretariat, the operational and country focal points, the GEF Council, and the GEF–Civil Society Network. The IEO would also like to thank members of the Eighth Comprehensive Evaluation of the GEF (OPS8) advisory panel: Monika Weber-Fahr, Vinod Thomas, Stefan Schwager, Patricia Rogers, and Hasan Tuluy, for their inputs at this stage. Nita Congress provided excellent editorial support to the team.