Monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation : a review of the landscape / Dennis Bours, Colleen McGinn, Patrick Pringle, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bours, Dennis, editor.

McGinn, Colleen, editor.

Pringle, Patrick (Deputy director), editor.

Series:

New directions for evaluation ; Number 147, Fall 2015.

New Directions for Evaluation ; Number 147, Fall 2015

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Evaluation--Methodology.

Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Titlepage; Copyright; Series; Editorial Policy and Procedures; Editors' Notes; The Challenge of Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation; Key Themes; Utilizing Evaluation Research to Inform Policy and Praxis; Conclusion; References; 1: Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation: Learning From Methods in International Development; The Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation; Monitoring and Evaluation Approaches and Techniques Useful to Adaptation; Employing an Overarching Approach To Improve Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation; Conclusion

References2: An Actor-Oriented and Context-Specific Framework for Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation; Conceptual Framework; Risk Context; Individual Decision-Making; Adaptation Assessment; Assessing Local Adaptation to Flood Risks in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta; Discussion; Conclusion; References; 3: Exploring Program Theory to Enhance Monitoring and Evaluation in Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Projects; Importance of Program Theory To Inform EbA Project Archetypes and M&E Design; Evidence Synthesis and Review as a Means of Assessing EbA Project Effectiveness

Application of Program Theory-Based Tools in Two Case StudiesDiscussion; References; 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; Approach and Tools; Strengths of the Tools; Application Challenges; Conclusion; References; 5: Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development in Isiolo County, Kenya; Methodology; Results; Discussion; Conclusions; References; 6: Meaningful Measurement for Community-Based Adaptation; Reframing M&E for CBA Design

Conceptual Framework: M&E for CBAARCAB M&E for CBA Framework Application; Framework Challenges; Conclusion; Next Steps; References; 7: What Indicates Improved Resilience to Climate Change? A Learning and Evaluative Process Developed From a Child-Centered, Community-Based Project in the Philippines; About the CCCBA Project; Background to Our Approach: Linking Focus Groups and Indicators; Designing the Indicators and Focus Groups; Findings: The indicators; Findings: The Process; Conclusion; References

8: Linking Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation to Climate Change Across Scales: Avenues and Practical ApproachesAssessing Adaptation Across Scales; Considerations of Scale in Countries' Adaptation M&E Systems; Avenues and Practical Approaches; Discussion: Combining Information on Climate Adaptation Across Scales; Conclusions; References; 9: Monitoring, Reporting, and Evidence-Based Learning in the Climate Investment Funds' Pilot Program for Climate Resilience; Development of the PPCR Results Framework and Its Five Core Indicators

Progress and Challenges in Operationalizing the Monitoring and Reporting

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 29, 2015).

ISBN:

1-119-15759-5

1-119-15758-7

OCLC:

932340262