The paper highlights ‘lessons learned’ from a small selection of climate change adaptation and resilience (CCAR) evaluations of programmes in high-risk coastal areas in Asia and the Pacific. The objective is to distil key lessons regarding monitoring and evaluation processes that are of interest to a broad professional audience. It examines the different ways, and the extent to which, CCAR perspectives are integrated into the design monitoring and evaluation processes of four programmes, and aims to demonstrate how this affects evaluation processes as well as opportunities for generating new knowledge. It also considers how programme evaluations can be better harnessed to contribute to the emerging evidence base on effective CCAR programming.

This is the third paper in the SEA Change / UKCIP Evaluation Review series which highlights and/or distils ‘lessons learned’ from a selection of evaluation reports that are relevant to M&E of climate change adaptation.