Making Adaptation Count, Concepts and Options for Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation

This report aims to provide adaptation and development practitioners with a practical framework for developing monitoring and evaluation systems that can track the success and failure of adaptation initiatives in the development context. It is based upon a series of convenings, case studies, and interviews conducted by the World Resources Institute (WRI) in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, with financial support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The bulk of the report presents a comprehensive six-step process to develop adaptation-relevant monitoring and evaluation systems. Development practitioners can apply these steps either to develop an monitoring and evaluation system for an adaptation project or program, or to identify ways to monitor and evaluate the adaptation components of a development intervention. The steps can also help funders and practitioners to gauge the utility of existing monitoring and evaluation systems for adaptation initiatives.