This practical course on M&E for climate adaptation is designed to build your capacity in planning, tracking, and evaluating climate change adaptation programs. You will learn how to design projects using logical framework analysis, define and monitor adaptation indicators, and assess performance against clear objectives and targets.

The training also explores gender integration in M&E and provides tools for conducting impact evaluations. Suitable for professionals in climate, development, and environmental sectors, the course is available both online and in-person. Participants will receive a certificate of completion.

Program Objectives

By the end of this training, the participants will be able to understand about:

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

Target Audience

• Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) professionals working on climate-related programs
• Environmental project managers and coordinators
• Climate change adaptation specialists and technical officers
• Program officers and development practitioners involved in resilience-building initiatives
• Government and NGO staff responsible for reporting, data collection, and results-based management
• Donor agency representatives overseeing climate adaptation funding and impact tracking
• Researchers and analysts working on climate risk, vulnerability assessments, or adaptation outcomes
• Consultants supporting climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, or M&E systems
• Data and knowledge management professionals in the environmental or development sectors

Course Modules

Module 1: Overview of Climate Change Adaptation Programs

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

Module 2: Introduction to M&E

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

Module 3: 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.

Module 4: 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.

Module 5: 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.

Module 6: Data Management for M&E in Climate Change Adoptation 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.

Module 7: Gender Perspective in M&E for Climate Change

• 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.

Module 8: Performance Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation Programs

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

Module 9: Impact Evaluation in Climate Change Adaptation Programs

• Why impact evaluation is important.
• Project attribution.
• Counterfactoal in 1E
• IE Methods; Difference in Difference & Propensity score matching.

Module 10: 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.

Delivery Method

This program 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 the training, participants will be awarded a certificate of course completion

Course Booking

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