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M&E and Data Management for Climate Change Adaptation

Category: Climate Change and Agriculture Training

Overview

The Expedition

This practical course on M&E for climate adaptation is designed to build your capacity in planning, tracking, and evaluating climate change adaptation programs. You will learn how to design projects using logical framework analysis, define and monitor adaptation indicators, and assess performance against clear objectives and targets.

The training also explores gender integration in M&E and provides tools for conducting impact evaluations. Suitable for professionals in climate, development, and environmental sectors, the course is available both online and in-person. Participants will receive a certificate of completion.

Program Objectives

By the end of this training, the participants will be able to understand about:

Understand monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for climate change adaptation programs
Design climate change adaptation projects using a logical framework analysis approach
Define different climate change adaptation indicators
Track performance indicators over the life of the project
Evaluate climate change adaptation programs against objectives and targets
Understand gender role in M&E in climate change adaptation programs
Conduct impact evaluations of climate change adaptation program

Target Audience

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) professionals working on climate-related programs
Environmental project managers and coordinators
Climate change adaptation specialists and technical officers
Program officers and development practitioners involved in resilience-building initiatives
Government and NGO staff responsible for reporting, data collection, and results-based management
Donor agency representatives overseeing climate adaptation funding and impact tracking
Researchers and analysts working on climate risk, vulnerability assessments, or adaptation outcomes
Consultants supporting climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, or M&E systems
Data and knowledge management professionals in the environmental or development sectors

Training Modules

1: Overview of Climate Change Adaptation Programs

Introduction to climate change adaptation.
Sustainable climate change adaptation programs.
Climate change adaptation program life cycle.

2: Introduction to M&E

Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation.
Why Monitoring and Evaluation are important.
Key principles and concepts in ME in a project lifecycle.
Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation.
M&E for climate change adaptation projects.

3: M&E Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation Programs

Conceptual Frameworks.
Results Frameworks.
Logical Framework Analysis (LFA).
Log Frame – Design of climate change adaptation projects using Log Frame.

4: Climate Change Adaptation Indicators

Indicators selection.
Indicator metrics.
Linking indicators to results.
Indicator matrix.
Climate change adaptation indicator performance tracking.
Sector-wide indicators for climate change adaptation.
Specific indicators for Sub-sectors of climate change adaptation.
Indicators for thematic areas related to climate change adaptation.

5: M&E Plans in Climate Change Adaptation Programs

Importance of an M&E Plan.
Documenting M&E System in the M&E Plan.
Components of M&E Plan.
Using M&E Plan to implement monitoring and evaluation in a
Project.

6: Data Management for M&E in Climate Change Adoptation Programs

Sources of Data: Information systems, surveys, participatory poverty assessments, financial management tools.
Use of different Surveys in data collection for climate change adaptation projects.
Participatory methods of data collection for climate change adaptation projects.
Data analysis for climate change adaptation projects.

7: Gender Perspective in M&E for Climate Change

Importance of gender in M&E
Integrating gender into program logic.
Setting gender-sensitive indicators.
Collecting gender disaggregated data.
Analyzing M&E data from a gender perspective.
Appraisal of projects from a gender perspective.
Issues with integrating gender into M&E.

8: Performance Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation Programs

Determining evaluation points from the results framework.
Components of evaluations: implementation and process Evaluation designs- experimental. quasi-experimental and non-experimental
Performance evaluation process.
Evaluation findings sharing and dissemination

9: Impact Evaluation in Climate Change Adaptation Programs

Why impact evaluation is important.
Project attribution.
Counterfactoal in 1E
IE Methods; Difference in Difference & Propensity score matching.

10: M&E Results Use and Dissemination

Use of M&E results to improve and strengthen climate change adaptation programs.
Use of M&E Lessons Learned and Best Practices.
M&E reporting format.
M&E results in communication strategies.

Delivery Method

This program is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group work and case studies. Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.