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Multilateral organizations should finance climate adaptation and mitigation efforts to combat climate change's harms

Droughts, floods and other climate-fueled disasters are having a negative impact on the health and safety of communities worldwide. This emergency has motivated a drumbeat of diplomatic activities, exemplified in the recent twenty-eighth meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates. The urgency has never been more apparent, yet climate investments are falling behind and the need for an evidence-driven strategy to ensure efficient use of available funds is critical. Read more here

Learning from adaptive evaluation approaches in dynamic conflict-afflicted and humanitarian settings

With the increasing number of conflict and humanitarian crises globally, programs need to be fit for these settings, so thus their monitoring and evaluations systems. Defined as an evaluation approach which critically considers idiosyncratic contextual factors during the design and data collection, adaptive evaluation has been found as one of the useful approaches for evaluating programs in conflict and humanitarian settings. Effective engagement with communities from design to finish is, without doubt, the underlying determining success factor when building an adaptive evaluation approach towards M&E. Owning to its use of mixed methods, adaptive evaluations report findings from a realist perspective: traces findings back to contextual differences and offers explanations why findings are the way they are. Due to this reporting style, an adaptive evaluation system has proven to help policymakers and program implementers with information to plan despite the uncertainties. In this article, we offer practical insights on some building blocks of an adaptive evaluation system. Read more here

Reimagining outcome harvesting as an approach for assessing the contribution of programs in fragile and conflict-afflicted settings in Africa

Complexity, a situation that encapsulates unpredictability and uncertainty, is among the principal threats to programs in fragile and conflict-afflicted se"ings. As a result, programs in such settings are likely to deviate from their original theory of change. This affects how impact evaluations are conceived and implemented especially when they use traditional theory-based methods. This article presents a paradigm on how impact evaluations can be useful and promote learning in fragile and conflict settings using complexity-aware methods such as outcome harvesting. By using practical examples, this article makes a case for outcome harvesting with an overview of the steps in conducting one in a participative way. Read more here

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