Training on Monitoring and Evaluation for Climate Change Adaptation Programs

Overview of Climate Change Adaptation Programs

• Introduction to climate change adaptation
• Sustainable climate change adaptation programs
• Climate change adaptation program life cycle

Introduction to M&E

• Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation
• Why Monitoring and Evaluation are important
• Key principles and concepts in M&E
• M&E in a project lifecycle
• Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation
• M&E for climate change adaptation projects

M&E Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation Programs

• Conceptual Frameworks
• Results Frameworks
• Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
• Log Frame – Design of climate change adaptation projects using Log Frame

Climate Change Adaptation Indicators

• Indicators selection
• Indicator metrics
• Linking indicators to results
• Indicator matrix

• Climate change adaptation indicator performance tracking
• Sector-wide indicators for climate change adaptation
• Specific indicators for Sub-sectors of climate change adaptation
• Indicators for thematic areas related to climate change adaptation

M&E Plans in Climate Change Adaptation Programs

• Importance of an M&E Plan
• Documenting M&E System in the M&E Plan
• Components of M&E Plan
• Using M&E Plan to implement monitoring and evaluation in a Project

Data Management for M&E in Climate Change Adaptation Programs

• Sources of Data: Information systems, surveys, participatory poverty assessments, financial management tools
• Use of different Surveys in data collection for climate change adaptation projects
•  Participatory methods of data collection for climate change adaptation projects
• Data analysis for climate change adaptation projects

Gender Perspective in M&E for Climate Change Adaptation Programs

• Importance of gender in M&E
• Integrating gender into program logic
• Setting gender-sensitive indicators
• Collecting gender disaggregated data
• Analyzing M&E data from a gender perspective
• Appraisal of projects from a gender perspective
• Issues with integrating gender into M&E

Performance Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation Programs

• Determining evaluation points from the results framework
• Components of evaluations: implementation and process evaluations.
• Evaluation designs- experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental
• Performance evaluation process
• Evaluation findings sharing and dissemination

Impact Evaluation in Climate Change Adaptation Programs

• Why impact evaluation is important
• Project attribution
• Counterfactual in IE
• IE Methods; Difference in Difference & Propensity score matching

M&E Results Use and Dissemination

• Use of M&E results to improve and strengthen climate change adaptation programs
• Use of M&E Lessons Learned and Best Practices
• M&E reporting format
• M&E results in communication strategies