Monitoring, evaluation and learning for climate risk management

As countries respond to the increasing impacts of climate change, evidence-based policy making for climate resilience has become ever more important. A crucial part of climate risk management is monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL). The development of effective MEL framework for climate risk management faces a number of technical challenges, including the partial understanding of future changes in the climate, socio-economic and ecological systems, difficulties in attributing outcomes to specific interventions, moving baselines and targets on climate resilience, and long time frames for outcomes and impacts of climate risk management interventions to unfold. To address these challenges, the authors introduce a conceptual framework for governments and development co-operation providers, developed as part of the OECD initiative for strengthening climate resilience. The authors present and discuss existing methods and tools that can help to deal with the technical challenges of MEL for climate risk management and provide examples of good practice for adjusting or updating existing MEL frameworks.