The Guidebook provides an overview of the process needed for designing and implementing effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). It is primarily aimed at practitioners and planners who design and implement EbA on the ground and are interested in assessing and understanding the results of their interventions in relation to helping people adapt to climate change.
Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) is an approach for reducing negative climate change impacts on people through working with and enhancing nature. As the ability of ecosystems to supply these goods and services is being threatened by both climatic and non-climatic drivers of change, measures aimed at restoring and/or building on the different types of ecosystem services to help people adapt to climate change can contribute to continued human well-being.
The Guidebook describes the following four steps for developing an effective M&E system for EbA:
- Step 1: Developing a results framework
- Step 2: Defining indicators and setting a baseline
- Step 3: Operationalising the monitoring and evaluation system
- Step 4: Using and communicating the results