Adaptation rationales and benefits: A foundation for understanding adaptation impact
Explore a newly proposed typology of adaptation benefits that aims to facilitate the construction of meaningful, transparent adaptation rationales; that is, the logic of an adaptation action. Discover how these can be applied in practice, using hypothetical and real-world examples of projects.
A framework for climate services evaluation and its application
This paper describes an elaborated logic model to structure the evaluation of a climate services program, which is demonstrated in a case study of the Caribbean Agrometeorological Initiative (CAMI).
BRACED Resilience Exchange
The Resilience Exchange is a flagship report exploring what the Building resilience and adaptation to climate extremes and disasters programme (BRACED) programme has learned after two years.
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
3ie funds impact evaluations and systematic reviews that generate evidence on what works in development programmes and why.
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development
This book documents emerging and innovative evaluation knowledge and practice for climate change and its links to sustainable development.
International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology
icipe's mission is to help alleviate poverty, ensure food security and improve the overall health status of peoples of the tropics, by developing and extending management tools an
From Tracking to Action
This report looks at emerging evidence of civil society engagement and identifies steps that providers of finance, governments, and CSOs can undertake to close the adaptation accountability gap.
Umweltbundesamt Gmbh - Environment Agency Austria
Our experience of 30 years makes us one of the leading providers of environmental consulting services to national and international clients.
The split ladder of participation: A diagnostic, strategic, and evaluation tool to assess when participation is necessary
The mainstream literature sees participation as critical to deepening democracy and solving complex environmental issues. An explosion of literature on public participation has...
The need for reflexive evaluation approaches in development cooperation
Within development cooperation, development issues are increasingly recognized as complex problems requiring new paths towards solving them. In addition to the commonly used two...
A monitoring instrument for resilience
Implicit in all development work is the quest for impact. Positively influencing livelihoods, landscapes and ecosystems is the goal of our work. Effecting such changes is known to require...
Spekboom Carbon Sequestration and Rehabilitation Project
In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, Subtropical Thicket has faced severe pressure from agriculture.
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Read here about some tools and examples linked to monitoring, evaluation and learning and the importance to encourage a participatory approach.
Assessment of adaptation needs - Nepal
This report brings together various domains of climate-related knowledge activities by looking at: the institutional landscape policies; laws and regulations; knowledge generation and...
ADM Definitions
One way which may help in determining which methods to use to support ADM is to consider the multiple possible dimensions of a method that can be used to provide a classification of methods.
MCA
MCA is a well-known method (or more accurately, family of methods) for evaluation of alternatives according to multiple decision criteria.
Conditions of applicability
This article argues that different tools and methods are appropriate for different parts of an adaptation decision or planning process, i.e. each tool or model has conditions of applicability and hence limitations that need to be considered
Involving Stakeholders
Stakeholder participation can be used to democratise science and empower citizens, to inform policy making and to advise decision-making processes.
Case studies analytical scope
This page is part of the Mediation Adaptation Pathfinder and documents case studies of some of the adaptation tools and appraoches featured in the Mediation project.
ORCHID
IDS's screening tool for addressing unmanaged risks of development programmes and their adaptation components.
SMCE-NAIADE
NAIADE is a multi-criteria analysis tool to help choose between different options
Methodology of Bolivia NCAP Project
Social learning approach used in the project
The NCAP-Bolivia followed the principles suggested in UNDP/GEF Adaptation Policy Framework (2003) Note: The NCAP...
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