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markets such as wind energy, solar energy, and transportation, which were also covered in at least one of the other three countries, were represented. While implementation success was a criteria in selection of the projects within China, the eventual outcomes and long term impacts were not considered for selection. Thus, thecompletedprojectscoveredaspartof thisevaluationarerepresentativeof GEF’s support to climate change mitigation in the countries covered by the evaluation. In all 18 completed climate change mitigation projects were covered. These projectsaccount formore thanUS$180million inGEFfundingandmore thanUS $680million in totalfinancing.GEFrequires that theprojectproponents also seek co-financing from other sources so that GEF funds only the incremental costs of implementingtheprojects.TotalGEFfundingforcoveredprojects rangedfromUS $1.0million to$40million,whereas totalfinancing ranged fromUS$3.0million to $284million. The date for start of implementation of the projects covered through the evalu- ation ranged from 1992 to 2007 and their completion dates ranged from 1997 to 2012. Although the projects were designed to be implemented for a duration of 3–6years,duringimplementationseveralprojectsneededextension.Asaresult, the actual duration of project implementation ranged from about 4 years to 12 years. Inclusionofprojects thatendedatdifferentpoints in timemeant thatat the time the evaluation was conducted, different time duration had elapsed post project com- pletion.That thisdifference isa factorwasestablishedwhencomparisonwasmade between the observed progress to impact at the point of project completion and at the timeevaluationwas conducted. Table 9.2 Technologies/Markets addressedbyprojects coveredby the evaluation TargetedMarket China India Mexico Russia Total Renewables/wind 2 1 1 0 4 Renewables/biomass ormethane 0 2 1 0 3 Renewables/solar 2 1 1 0 4 Renewables/hydro 0 2 0 0 2 Energy efficiency/all –mixed 0 1 0 1 2 Energy efficiency/industry 1 0 0 0 1 Energy efficiency/lighting 0 0 1 0 1 Energy efficiency/buildings 0 0 0 2 2 Transportation 2 0 1 0 3 Total number of projects 5 6 5 2 18 Someprojectsaddressedmore thanone technology, socolumnsmayadduptomore than the total number of projects. Rowswould add up as none of the project covered two ormore of the four countries simultaneously Source:ClimateChangeMitigation ImpactEvaluation,GEF IEO 158 A.Zazueta andN.K.Negi