Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

What is it about?

This authoritative book presents the ever progressing state of the art in evaluating climate change strategies and action. The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations. Important topics include how policies and organisations aim to achieve impact and how this is measured, whether climate change is mainstreamed into other development programs, and whether operations are meeting the urgency of climate change challenges. The following sections focus on evaluation of climate change projects and policies as they link to development, from the perspective of international organisations, NGOs, multilateral and bilateral aid agencies, and academia. The authors share methodologies or approaches used to better understand problems and assess interventions, strategies and policies. They also share challenges encountered, what was done to solve these and lessons learned from evaluations. Collectively, the authors illustrate the importance of evaluation in providing evidence to guide policy change to informed decision-making.

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Why is it important?

Climate change is one of the most pressing and complex problems facing humankind today. This book is so important because provides evidence-based answers to how to most effectively help countries to address the challenges. We need to make choices that direct our limited resources to their best use on the ground. Evaluations and lessons learned from past projects and programs help us make informed decisions regarding what works, under what circumstances and why.