This report explores monitoring and evaluation practices across developed and developing countries with a focus on national policies and plans which coming from assessments of a country’s vulnerability to climate change.

It identifies four tools that countries can draw upon in their own assessment frameworks: 1) climate change risk and vulnerability assessments, 2) indicators to monitor progress on adaptation priorities, 3) project and programme evaluations to identify effective adaptation approaches, and 4) national audits and climate expenditure reviews.

The report also examines how development co-operation providers can support partner countries in their efforts to monitor and evaluate adaptation. It argues that the appropriate mix of tools to monitor and evaluate national climate-change adaptation will to a large extent be determined by data availability, monitoring and evaluation capacity, and the ability to bring together the producers and the users of relevant climate information.

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