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The Evaluator's Race against Climate Change- Reflecting the IDB Seminar on the 4th of December 2014
The Race against Climate Change, Economics, Politics and the High Stakes of the next 12 months
By choosing this title for his presentation, Andrew Steer immediately addresses the key issue for evaluators, since these "…
Making Climate Finance Count: Improved Tracking in the Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2014
Climate Policy Initiative has just released our Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2014. By providing the most comprehensive overview available of…
Climate Change Adaptation Indicator Good Practice Draft Study Report Available for Comments!
Over the past months I have been blogging about indicators, measures and metrics, some good discussion took place on various LinkedIn groups on…
7 Preliminary Lessons from the 2nd Climate-Eval Conference
The 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development has ended in Washington D.C leaving many evaluation questions answered and perhaps many more unanswered – even though it would be fair to argue that the conference did not set out to answer all questions associated…
Climate Finance Monitoring and Evaluation: Scaling-up Knowledge and Learning through On-Line Approaches
Hello, my name is Pablo Benitez and I am sharing with you a blog about my forthcoming presentation on Climate Finance M&E, which will be part of the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development. I hope that the members of this community will enjoy reading it, and…
A Composite Methodology Approach to Bridging Private-Public Climate Compatible Development Goals
Hello, my name is Quinn Reifmesser and I am honoured to have been invited to share a blog about the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership's (REEEP's) newly developed Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Strategy and Framework and accompanying paper, which will be presented at the 2nd…
Insurance against weather risk: A quasi-experimental evaluation of weather index insurance impacts on productivity and welfare
Hello! I am Yesuf and I would like to communicate to you my work (co-authored with Théophile T. Azomahou) scheduled to be presented at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development. The title of our study is Insurance against weather risk: A quasi-experimental…
Misusings on maladaptation, and how to measure it.
During a good part of my early childhood my mother was a frequent visitor of my school's principal's office. The point was that as a young child I was maladapted, though teachers disagreed as to what that meant exactly. And although that was the situation when I was 9, I would dare to…
Adaptation processes in agriculture and food security: Insights from evaluating behavioral changes in West Africa
Hello, my name is Jacques Somda, and I would like to share a blog with you about the paper I intend to present at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development. This paper focuses on evaluating the adaptive capacities in human systems in relation with agriculture…
What Do Evaluations Tell Us about Climate Change Adaptation? A Realist Review
This is a co-authored piece by the following authors: Takaaki Miyaguchi(Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University (Japan), takaaki@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp) and Juha I. Uitto(Director, GEF Independent Evaluation…