Blog Posts

Blog Posts

Blog Posts

We collect knowledge-rich blogs from evaluators and persons both within and without our community. These blogs offer writers the opportunity to narrate in less formal writing styles their personal evaluation experiences, capture evaluation findings in easy-to-understand ways while engaging the community with other relevant knowledge.

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Building Adaptive Learning Systems for NRM and CCA Outcomes and Sustainable Inclusive Growth

Stephanie Hodge
Gaia Consulting
Consultant
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Lessons from Mauritius, Seychelles and Iran, other GEF-UNDP projects

In developing countries and regions, knowledge for natural resources management (NRM) and climate change adaptation (CCA) remain scarce and fragmented within weak knowledge systems. Knowledge about CCA…

Patrons and Partners in Climate Compatible Development: The Water Filter Story

Jasmine Hyman
Yale University
PhD Candidate
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My doctoral work opens the black box of practice (Mosse 2004) to examine how climate-compatible development projects that utilize carbon finance can enable (or hinder) local economic development. Together with my research assistant, Yiting Wang, we have documented the importance of water filter…

Independent evaluation of the Inter-American Development Bank's work on climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: 3 Main Takeaways

Maria Paula Mendieta
Veronica Gonzalez Diez
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Evaluation Senior Specialist
Victor Beltran
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Communications Consultant
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Independent evaluation of the Inter-American Development Bank?s work on climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: 3 Main Takeaways

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved more than US$20 billion to finance climate-related projects in Latin America and the Caribbean (…

Hello from the new Climate-Eval moderator!

Shanna Edberg
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Hello to the Climate-Eval community! My name is Shanna Edberg, and I am the new moderator of Climate-Eval. 

For a little bit about my background, I am currently in my second year working at the Global Environment Facility's …

Assessing Business Firms' Climate Change Adaptation Responses and Contributions to Adaptive Capacity

Jose Dibella Contreras
King's College London
Phd Researcher
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I started my career as a corporate lawyer, but shifted my work focus to development cooperation and geography by working on research projects on relief and reconstruction in urban and coastal contexts. These experiences have led to my current work at the intersection of business, climate change…

Signing off from Climate-Eval

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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On May 13, 2013, I boarded the "Climate-Eval Train" super motivated to make the most of a new professional journey that at the time was equally exciting as it was intimidating. Two years later, as I move on to another…

Using M&E to maximize children's participation in community-based adaptation

Jimena Eyzaguirre
ESSA Technologies Ltd
Senior Climate Change Specialist
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Last year I worked with Plan International to evaluate the pilot phase of their child-centered climate change adaptation…

The GESTOR Programme?s M&E from a Resilience Perspective

Roy Córdova Salcedo
Helvetas Swiss Inter Cooperation
Planning and Monitoring Specialist
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Although Bolivia - in the last years - has been able to reduce poverty and inequality, both still remain high, especially in the rural area. According to official measures, poverty decreased in a decade (2002-2012), from 63% to 45% , while the extreme poverty in the same time period, reduced…

Climate Change Adaptation Strategies from Rural Ethiopia: Does Social Protection Help?

Zerihun Weldegebriel
University of Trento - Italy
PhD candidate
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Background

Ethiopia ranks 10th in the list of countries most at risk from climate change in 2014, according to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index, prepared by Maplecroft. The low-level of development and dependence on agriculture are the main reasons for this…

Draft Study on Evaluation of NRM Interventions Linked to Climate Change - Now Available for Comments

Najeeb Khan
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Natural Resource Management (NRM) is at the center of the Climate-Eval Community of Practice's expanded focus for the next phase of engagement. As such the community is looking to explore the issues relevant to evaluation practitioners when climate change aspects are incorporated into NRM…