Table 1 Challenges and solutions for assessing adaptation progress
From: Assessing adaptation progress for the global stocktake
Evaluation focus | Adaptation outputs and outcomes | Impact of adaptation interventions | ||
Constraint | Availability of evidence | Quality of evidence | Availability of evidence | Quality of evidence |
Challenge | Data on intervention outputs and outcomes are not easily accessible or publicly available | Reporting of adaptation intervention outputs and outcomes is incomplete and inconsistent | Rigorous independent impact evaluations of adaptation interventions are few and far between | Process, not progress, is often measured and evaluated in adaptation |
Solution | The adaptation community (policymakers, funders, practitioners, researchers) creates a free, comprehensive and easy-to-use global database of adaptation interventions | The adaptation community uses agreed indicators consistently to evaluate and report adaptation outcomes at the intervention level | Funders and implementers invest in rigorous monitoring and evaluation of adaptation interventions | Adaptation evaluators learn from development research and practice and build on existing approaches to impact evaluation |
