Training on Monitoring and Evaluation for Climate Change Adaptation Programs

Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to the life and livelihoods of billions of people. It is essential to ensure that the measures are taken work – and work well. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are crucial for determining where to direct expenditures, what is effective and ineffective, why this is the case, and how to draw lessons from past mistakes to optimize impact. M&E promotes smart and successful investments in climate change adaptation. Although there are numerous M&E systems for climate change adaptation in place at the project, national, and international levels, the area is still relatively new and is expanding quickly.

The M&E for climate change course provides an overview of the basic principles and methodologies for program monitoring and evaluation with emphasis on practical application for climate change adaptation researchers and practitioners.

Target Participants

This course is designed for researchers, project staff, development practitioners, managers, and decision-makers who are responsible for the project, program, or organization-level M&E of climate change adaptation programs.

Course Duration

Online    7 Days

Classroom-based      5 Days

What you will learn

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Understand monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for climate change adaptation programs.
• Design climate change adaptation projects using a logical framework analysis approach.
• Define different climate change adaptation indicators.
• Track performance indicators over the life of the project
• Evaluate climate change adaptation programs against objectives and targets.
• Understand gender role in M&E in climate change adaptation programs.
• Conduct impact evaluations of climate change adaptation program

Course Outline

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

Training Approach

This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in their respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group work, and case studies.

Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued a certificate.

Tailor-Made Course

We can also do this as a tailor-made course to meet organization-wide training needs. A training needs assessment will be done on the training participants to collect data on the existing skills, knowledge gaps, training expectations, and tailor-made needs.