This Quick Guide is a fast read to improve the design and implementation of actions that have climate change adaptation as a main or significant objective, based on the experience of 15 EU GCCA/GCCA+ projects.
Strong monitoring & evaluation (M&E) systems support our understanding of what works and what could be improved in the field of adaptation, and facilitate the replication and scaling up of successful approaches to adaptation, while averting the risk of “maladaptation”.
Since 2007, the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA), now Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+), is a European Union (EU) flagship initiative supporting climate action in the most vulnerable countries.
An extended version of this Quick Guide (called the Practical Guide for Monitoring and Evaluation of adaptation action) illustrates in detail, with practical steps and examples, the key findings from the review of the 15 GCCA/GGCA+ national and regional projects. The methodology used is inspired by a conceptual framework for the monitoring and evalutation of adaptation based on a review of best international practice