Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate change adaptation (CCA) poses an assortment of thorny methodological challenges. Individually, none are unique to CCA, but together they represent a very distinctive conundrum facing practitioners and policy makers. Adding to this complexity further, climate change may be global in nature but its impacts, and how we respond to them through adaptation efforts, cut across scales, sectors, and levels of intervention.
As investments in climate adaptation increase, organizations are seeking to measure, assess and understand an array of adaptation initiatives, and derive learnings to inform policy and praxis. This issue presents findings from many of the most important contemporary CCA program evaluation research initiatives. The chapters represent the most coherent and current collection of CCA M&E research in this emerging and important field, written by many of its leading experts. Filled with examples and insights in formulating coherent responses to methodological challenges, it will be of interest to M&E scholars and practitioners globally.
This is the 147th issue in the New Directions for Evaluation series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.
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1 Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation: Learning From Methods in International Development |
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2 An Actor-Oriented and Context-Specific Framework for Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation |
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3 Exploring Program Theory to Enhance Monitoring and Evaluation in Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Projects |
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4 An Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation of Institutional Capacity for Adaptation to Climate Change: The Case of the United Kingdom's Investment in Ethiopia's Climate-Resilient Green Economy |
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5 Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development in Isiolo County, Kenya |
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6 Meaningful Measurement for Community-Based Adaptation |
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7 What Indicates Improved Resilience to Climate Change? A Learning and Evaluative Process Developed From a Child-Centered, Community-Based Project in the Philippines |
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8 Linking Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation to Climate Change Across Scales: Avenues and Practical Approaches |
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9 Monitoring, Reporting, and Evidence-Based Learning in the Climate Investment Funds' Pilot Program for Climate Resilience |
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Volume Editors: Dennis Bours works as extended-term consultant for the Global Environment Facilitys Independent Evaluation Office.
Colleen McGinn is an independent research consultant and an expert in population coping, adaptation, and resilience and has a long track record in applied research, M&E, and program management.
Patrick Pringle is deputy director at the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) based at the University of Oxford.
Series Editor-in-Chief: Paul R. Brandon, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
