This episode of the Evaluator features two renowned REDD+ experts: Ms. Maria Garcia Espinosa, Senior Policy Advisor at Climate Law and Policy; and Mr. Pierre Guedez, Senior Climate Finance Specialist at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Together with IEU’s Yeonji Kim as the moderator, they discuss a wide range of topics related to REDD+, including the GCF’s REDD+ results-based payment pilot, the Cancun Safeguards, and the future of the REDD+ mechanism as a whole.

Maria and Pierre also discuss the ESS evaluation report, and specifically the chapter on the GCF’s REDD+ programme. You can read the full report here.

The IEU recently finalized the Rapid Assessment of the GCF’s Request for Proposals (RfP) modality. REDD+ pilot is one of the 4 programmes that were launched under the RfP modality. If you want to learn more about it, you can read the full report here.

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