Items tagged:
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
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Evaluations as a tool to enhance policymaking: from COVID-19 to the climate crisis
A new briefing analyses how evaluations can be used to improve policymaking to address the climate emergency, using examples from the global reaction to the coronavirus pandemic
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How to get the most out of dialogue
A new IIED-commissioned review seeks to deepen understanding of what makes effective dialogue and why
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Is SDG evaluation just business as usual?
Stefano D'Errico outlines four steps that should be considered in the design of an effective evaluative process for the Sustainable Development Goals
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Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
David Satterthwaite discusses the vast gaps in city data, and explains why planning, governing and servicing cities calls for data that is broken down into city and sub-city level
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Guide to national-level SDG evaluation launches
A new guide for evaluators and evaluation commissioners working on the Sustainable Development Goals will be launched in New York today (4 February). It offers a timely ‘real life’ introduction to assessing progress on the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs at national level.
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Towards better assessment of adaptation results
How can countries align their climate adaptation assessment mechanisms with other frameworks? Barry Smith highlights opportunities for achieving effective adaptation monitoring and evaluation
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South Africa’s national development monitoring and evaluation
IIED has undertaken a series of 'light touch' case studies to show how some countries are developing adaptation M&E for learning systems. This study looks at South Africa
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How the Philippines’ national M&E system integrates climate and development
IIED has undertaken a series of 'light touch' case studies to show how some countries are developing adaptation M&E for learning systems. This study looks at the Philippines.
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Subnational adaptation monitoring and evaluation in Morocco
IIED has undertaken a series of 'light touch' case studies to show how some countries are developing adaptation M&E for learning systems. This study looks at Morocco.
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Assessing climate adaptation in Mexico
IIED has undertaken a series of 'light touch' case studies to show how some countries are developing adaptation M&E for learning systems. This study looks at Mexico.
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Monitoring and evaluation guidance for SDG14
Despite the importance of marine resources to life on earth, Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water) has struggled to gain attention and support on an international scale. This project provided guidance on how to develop and implement appropriate monitoring, evaluation and learning systems to support and accelerate progress towards achieving SDG14 and related goals.
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Pathways to learning – finding new ways to evaluate SDG progress
The United Nations High Level Political Forum is a great opportunity to take stock of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With this year’s forum under way in New York, Stefano D’Errico discusses how countries can use the agenda principles as a framework to evaluate their trajectory towards sustainable development
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New guide to monitoring progress on SDG14
IIED has published a practical handbook on how to assess progress on Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life below Water. By encouraging better monitoring and evaluation of SDG14, the new handbook aims to support better reporting and learning across the 2030 Agenda
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Supporting national monitoring and evaluation systems to enable adaptation assessment and reporting
IIED is working on a programme to improve and share understanding about monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for climate change adaptation planning and reporting.
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Webinar: Benefits of investing in national monitoring and evaluation systems
Join our webinar on 2 Oct 2018 to discuss how developing countries can benefit from investing in national M&E systems for climate change adaptation - and go beyond narrow project or indicator-based monitoring systems.
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Webinar: What does successful adaptation look like, and what do we want to measure in the context of adaptation, national development and SDGs?
IIED organised a webinar on 28 June 2018 to discuss how developing country governments can assess adaptation actions to inform national planning and international reporting.
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Effective evaluation for the Sustainable Development Goals
Evaluation processes will play a key role in national and global review systems for the Sustainable Development Goals.IIED and EVALSDGs are publishing a series of briefings about evaluation designed to help promote effective conduct and use of evaluation in SDGs implementation, follow-up and review.
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Campaigns: activities framed by a strategy to support project aims
We developed a communications strategy that was designed to let the voices of artisanal and small-scale miners be heard in discussions about inclusive and sustainable mining
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Knowledge exchange: collaborative learning about communications
Communications Learning Week: communications specialists come together to discuss how best to achieve impact
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Animations: explaining the SDGs in three minutes
The wide-reaching agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals was brought to life in an animation commissioned by IIED
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Events: international community-based adaptation conference showcases knowledge exchange
International conferences on community-based adaptation (CBA) enable practitioners, governments and donors to share latest developments and best practice
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Surveys: getting feedback about our publications
Respondents to our survey helped us to get beyond the numbers and develop our plans for IIED's online library
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Webinars: bringing people together online
IIED's online seminars about land rights bring together experts from around the world to share knowledge and exchange ideas
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Evaluations, reviews and assessments are key to embedding the SDGs
How can we embed the Sustainable Development Goals into development processes to reach the tipping point that we desperately need for dealing with the big challenges of our time? This blog by Stefano D'Errico follows up a joint UNICEF/EVALSDGs webinar in New York
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Taking a more rigorous approach to evaluation
Evaluation researcher Barbara Befani explains how a different methodological approach helped IIED evaluate whether the Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group had influenced policy
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How we monitor and evaluate our work
IIED’s emphasis on effective monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) reflects our determination to make change happen. We are committed to continual learning – from our work, each other, our partners and beyond
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Generating better evidence for sustainable development research and evaluation
IIED is developing a body of work that seeks to understand how to develop better evidence for sustainable development research and evaluation
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Q&A: Why do we need a philosophy for better evidence?
Stefano D'Errico talks about how better evidence can help decision makers make better policy, and help realise the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals
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Monitoring, evaluation and learning capacity development
IIED values monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) as an important tool for research and influence to foster sustainable development. We work with NGOs, communities, and local and national authorities to enhance their institutional MEL capacities
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Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods
IIED's work in monitoring, evaluation and learning aims to provide the right type of information at the right time to the right people. Our goal is to learn about what works for whom, under what circumstances, how and why
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Our strategy: 2014-2019
IIED's 2014-2019 strategy aimed to contribute to the achievement of change that benefits poor people and the environment: generating evidence through research, building partnerships to influence policy and practice, and ensuring people living in poverty have a voice at every level. This strategy was published in 2014, and updated in 2017
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How do we measure adaptation?
How do we effectively measure and enhance adaptation? Saleemul Huq looks at possible answers which will be discussed at the 9th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA9)
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Paper outlines framework to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches
A framework on how to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches while identifying in which contexts social learning works best, and where it is not useful, is now available
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Recognising the concerns of women and girls can improve the effectiveness of climate change adaptation
Including the perspectives and experiences of women and girls in monitoring and evaluation can lead to better outcomes for climate change adaptation measures, IIED research has found
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Six nations to share progress on measuring adaptation to climate change
The governments of six countries will share their experiences of assessing the effectiveness and developmental impacts of climate change adaptation, at an international meeting in Kenya on 24-27 March.
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Nepal: Measuring resilience to climate change from the community up
Effective monitoring and evaluation of changes in community resilience that arise from both development and climate change resilience, can help Nepal can make smart moves to protect its people, says Susannah Fisher.
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Measuring the impact of climate adaptation on development
A comprehensive framework is broadening the way decision makers measure the impact of climate adaptation on development
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Will Payments for Watershed Services fuel the protection of ecosystem services?
It’s easier to prevent pollution harnessing the forces of nature than to clean up the mess with costly technology. Is there a solution at hand?
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Taking the long view on adaptation
The impacts of climate change do not happen overnight but play out over decades. Funders looking to support people to adapt to those impacts must take the long view and accept that their investments may not provide measurable outcomes for ten years or more.
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REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
Land is cheap and is perceived to be abundant in Africa. A scramble for its land, following the food and fuel crisis three years ago, is on. European and North American companies have been acquiring land to grow export and biofuel crops and to supply their need for pulp and paper. Now they’re being joined by newly emerging economies – in particular Brazil, India and China – which are also increasingly acquiring large tracts of land and searching for other natural resources, in particular water and minerals.
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