The following table offers a number of resources to assist in the planning and implementation of community based evaluation initiatives that
include the evaluation of individual adaptation projects, capacity building initiatives and mainstreaming of adaptation into existing programmes.
Examples from practice are emerging and some are captured here and the lessons learned are shared.
| Name | Description | References
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| CARE Framework of Milestones and Indicators for Community-Based Adaptation | Monitoring & evaluation of CBA, and specifically the identification of appropriate results and indicators to plan and monitor CBA projects, has been identified as a particular challenge. CARE’s Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) Framework presents a range of enabling factors which must be in place at different levels in order for effective community-based adaptation to take place. | http://www.careclimatechange.org/tk/integration/en/quick_links/tools/monitoring_evaluation.html |
| Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction: a tool for development organisations | This paper offers a practical tool to help development organisations mainstream disaster risk reduction into their relief and development planning and programming. Performance targets and indicators are presented to help organisations assess, measure and monitor their progress with mainstreaming. The targets/indicators cover six key areas of organisations’ work. The paper also identifies a series of factors that influence the pace of mainstreaming. This tool is significant because, while there is increasing recognition among donors and other organisations of the need to mainstream risk reduction, very little work has yet been undertaken to identify how this could be done. The tool represents an initial attempt which should be considered as ‘a work in progress’. | http://www.tearfund.org/webdocs/Website/Campaigning/Policy%20and%20research/Mainstreaming%20disaster%20risk%20reduction.pdf |
| Best Practices and Lessons Learned in addressing adaptation in the Least Developed Countries through the National Adaptation Programme of Action Process | This paper outlines eight case studies of country experiences: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Kiribati, Malawi, Sao Tome and Principe and Uganda. The cases include information on the status of preparation and implementation of NAPAs and the experiences from LDC NAPA teams, assembled through questionnaires, interviews and a desk review of country-specific documents and data, including NAPAs and LDCF project documents. They offer an insight into the diversity of the LDCs in terms of geographical distribution (Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific), language (anglophones, francophones and lusophones) and ecosystems (mountainous countries, SIDS, landlocked countries, subtropical regions and the Sahel). The results from the findings are used to inform the support provided by the LEG to the LDCs. In cases where immediate actions were required, the LEG worked with the GEF and its agencies to find solutions. This approach has proved to be a good practice in itself; it has led to the quick resolution of problems and the improvement of the relationships between the NAPA teams and the GEF implementing agencies. | unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/ldc_publication_bbll_2011.pdf |
| From the Roots Up - Strengthening Organisational Capacity through Guided Self Assessment | This field guide providing principle and techniques for self-assessment exercises that aim to strengthen organisational capacity in key areas including: representative decision making; communication systems; collaboration with other groups; negotiation for services; identification and prioritization of problems; implementation of activities; lobbying for local interests; clarity of vision and purpose; systems for raising revenue; mobilizing human capital; and monitoring and evaluation. | http://rmportal.net/library/content/tools/biodiversity-conservationtools/putting-conservation-incontext-cd/capacity-buildingand-organizational-developmentresources/Excerpts-Fromthe-Roots-Up-Strengthening-Organizational-Capacity-through-Guided-Self-Assessment |
