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Timo Leiter, GIZ

NAP Expo 2015

14 April 2015,

Bonn, Germany

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of

adaptation and the NAP process

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Rationale for M&E of adaptation

Understanding adaptation

• Examining whether adaptation actually takes place

• Learning from experience

Managing adaptation

• Are current adaptation measures/government support effective?

• What can be improved?

Attract & secure funding (nationally and internationally)

Report on progress nationally and internationally

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M&E of what exactly?

M&E of the NAP process

• Is NAP implementation on track?

• Have intended milestones been reached?

M&E of adaptation

• Including: process/implementation, outputs and outcomes

• Are adaptation interventions reaching their intended goals?

• Does the NAP process and national / international support

lead to effective adaptation?

• NAP objective: is CC vulnerability being reduced?

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Monitoring the NAP process

• Check fulfillment of essential functions of the NAP process as

defined by the LDC Expert Group PEG Tool (June 2015)

• Determine country-specific milestones and compare achievement

over time SNAP Tool

List of Essential functions:

Report of 24th LEG Meeting

FCCC/SBI/2013/15

Details of the SNAP radar chart:

https://gc21.giz.de/ibt/var/app/wp342

deP/1443/?wpfb_dl=148

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M&E of adaptation

Challenges of measuring outcomes:

1. Adaptation is context-specific

2. There is no common success metric

3. Closely interlinked with achieving sustainable

development

Inputs Outputs Outcomes Impacts

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Developing an adaptation M&E system

Clarify:

• What exactly M&E is monitoring:

• Implementation of a plan, results of CCA measures, vulnerability

• What M&E is done for: purpose

• How will the results be disseminated?

• Who is supposed to use the M&E results?

Key lesson: don’t start with indicators, start with purpose of M&E

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Five steps to set up a national adaptation M&E system

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Step 1:

Analyse and define

the context for M&E

Step 2:

Define the levels

and methodologies

Step 3:

Define indicators,

baselines and data

to be collected

Step 4:

Set up the M&E

system

Step 5:

Use the M&E results

Learning

Further information:

national-level M&E on:

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Monitoring adaptation outcomes

Countries use different approaches:

• Define desired adaptation outcomes (per sector) and associated

indicators South Africa

• Develop results chains i.e. how adaptation can be achieved through

intended activities Philippines

• Combining indicators for sectoral adaptation responses with

insights from vulnerability assessments Germany

• Combine capacity indicators with relevant development indicators

TAMD approach by IIED (piloted in Cambodia, Ethiopia)

Key lesson: need a tailored approach

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Factsheets of adaptation M&E at the national level

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Each factsheet describes:

• Context: Purpose & policy context

• Process: institutional arrangements,

development of M&E system

• Content: approach, data, indicators,

outputs

• Lessons to date

Accompanying study:

• Comparative analysis

• Recommendations for

designing adaptaton M&E

systems

Available on:

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Repository of adaptation indicators at national level

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Repository of indicators for

• CC impacts

• Adaptation actions

• Adaptation results

Explains adaptation relevance

Illustrative rather than prescriptive:

indicators need to fit the context!

Available on:

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National adaptation M&E: experiences so far

• Review of existing data sources very helpful

• Development process / agreement on system and indicators takes

more than one year

• Start small, increase scope over time

• So far most adaptation M&E systems focus on monitoring

implementation and outputs rather than outcomes

• Keep a user focus

• Making M&E results publicly available

• Use results to report progress nationally and internationally

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Download of publications, factsheets and webinar

recordings on M&E: www.AdaptationCommunity.net

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On the start

page just

click on the

topic of

interest, e.g.

M&E

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Thank you very much!

Timo.Leiter@giz.de

GIZ Competence Centre for Climate Change