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Tracking adaptation and measuring development
Nick Brooks, Simon Anderson, Jessica Ayers, Ian Burton, Ian Tellam
Working paper, 34 pages
This is the first paper in the IIED Climate Change Working Paper series. As adaptation to climate change becomes the focus of increasing attention and the target of significant spending, there is a growing need for frameworks and tools that enable organisations to track and assess the outcomes of adaptation interventions. This paper presents a coherent framework for climate change adaptation programming, including potential indicators, or indicator categories/types, for tracking and evaluating the success of adaptation support and adaptation interventions. The paper begins with a discussion of some of the key issues related to the evaluation of adaptation, and outlines some of the main difficulties and constraints with respect to the development of adaptation indicators. Next, an evaluation framework is proposed and indicator categories or “domains” are identified. Lastly, key conclusions are provided and a theory of change is outlined that shows how development and use of the framework could lead to more effective adaptation investments for climate resilient development.
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Publication information
- IIED code: 10031IIED
- Published: Nov 2011 - IIED
- Themes: Climate change, Monitoring, evaluation and learning
- Series: Climate Change Working Paper 01
- ISBN: 978-1-84369-834-0
- ISSN: 2048-7851
- eISSN: 2048-786X
- Language:
English
Project information
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is working with partners to develop and pilot a framework, called Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD), to track adaptation and measure its impact on development.
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