Building Effective Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Systems for Climate Resilience
About this webinar
The level of advancement of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems differs greatly across developing countries. Climate adaptation is inherently difficult to measure and depends on the selection of indicators that build on national information sources, ideally with cross-country comparisons. For developing countries, data-intensive adaptation MEL processes and monitoring efforts can add additional burden to already constrained adaptive capacities.
This webinar discussed the national and sectoral experiences on building monitoring, evaluation and learning systems, as well as global dimensions of gauging adaptation progress. With several countries advancing on their National Adaptation Plans, emerging insights were shared at the national level. Sectoral experiences and tools applied in agriculture were also presented.
With the inaugural Global Stock-take on Adaptation occurring in 2023, the webinar discussed issues related to measuring progress globally. It also looked forward to the next Global Stock-take in 2028 and the ground that is covered under the Glasgow-Sharm-el Sheikh Programme on the Global Goal for Adaptation. This webinar was co-organized by UNDP under the Adaptation Pipeline Accelerator (APA) initiative and FAO-UNDP Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through NDCs and NAPs (SCALA) Programme.
Agenda
- Welcome and introduction (Prakash Bista and Rohini Kohli, UNDP)
- Presentations
- The Global Stocktake on Adaptation: A Proposal to Move Forward on Measuring Progress on Adaptation, by Joel B. Smith, Independent Researcher
- Using metrics to assess progress towards the Paris Agreement’s Global Goal on Adaptation: Transparency in adaptation in the agriculture sectors, by Neha Rai, Climate Change and Private Sector Specialist, FAO
- Country experiences – building national monitoring, evaluation and learning systems on adaptation
- Panama experience, by Katherine Martinez, Coordinator of the Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation System, Ministry of Environment of Panama
- Cote d’Ivoire experience, by Douglas Anaman, Adaptation and Climate Policy Expert, UNDP Cote d’Ivoire
- Q&A/Discussion
- Final reflections
Moderator: Prakash Bista, UNDP Technical Specialist for NAPs
The full webinar recording is available here.
It was held in English with French and Spanish simultaneous interpretations.
