Monitoring, evaluation and learning blogs
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Top 20 downloaded papers in the journal Environment and Urbanization
18 August 2022How can we measure – or what should we measure – to assess the influence of a paper or journal?
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A changing world needs changing methods: six steps for evaluations to assess “what will work”
12 July 2022Climate change is creating unpredictable futures for sustainable development. Yet, evaluation methods for assessing development progress have remained unchanged. Emilie Beauchamp and Stefano D’Errico explain why evaluations must urgently turn from assessing 'what works' to 'what will work' and introduce a new guide to evaluation in a time of climate change
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Promoting anti-racist narratives in development sector research
19 May 2022Reflecting on a recent IIED review, Natalie Lartey explores common challenges in tackling racial bias in the storytelling that underpins international development research and identifies opportunities for change
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Are humanitarian agencies starting from scratch again in Haiti?
25 October 2021After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, thousands of humanitarian agencies supported a huge recovery effort. ATwo months ago, another major quake struck. Are Haiti or humanitarian agencies any better equipped for the challenge of rebuilding?
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Do urban populations benefit from urban bias?
1 September 2021Conventional wisdom suggests that most poverty is in rural areas. But as there is so little research, how can we know if this is true?
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Framework guides local governments towards people-led climate-resilient development
5 August 2021IIED’s framework supports local governments to shift away from ‘development as usual’ − to development planning that places climate at its heart, champions bottom-up community participation and values local knowledge
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Five key questions for making the Global Goal on Adaptation work for local people and places
23 July 2021Emilie Beauchamp discusses how parties to the Paris Agreement could agree on a roadmap towards a Global Goal on Adaptation that will work for the whole of society
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Rethinking research and development approaches from a decolonisation perspective
15 July 2021Following a recent Dilemmas of Development webinar series, Tracy Kajumba and guest blogger Daniela Nemeti Baba reflect on the complexities of decolonising development approaches to research and development
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Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change
19 May 2021Twenty-five years after the landmark UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, gender equality has not been achieved anywhere. Tracy Kajumba and Clare Shakya reflect that if we want to transform society, we need a radical new approach, starting with the way we respond to climate change
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Talking transdisciplinarity
16 April 2021Guest bloggers Alexandre Chausson and Lydia Cole discuss achieving research impact through co-producing knowledge in transdisciplinary teams
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Thorny issues: achieving a fair and equitable Global Goal on Adaptation
25 January 2021The international Climate Adaptation Summit on 25 and 26 January aims to spur worldwide efforts to adapt to climate change. The Paris Agreement established the need for a Global Goal on Adaptation, but a new IIED briefing paper argues that to effectively operationalise the global goal, policymakers need to address some fundamental conceptual and technical challenges.
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How to get the most out of dialogue
3 June 2020A new IIED-commissioned review seeks to deepen understanding of what makes effective dialogue and why
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Is SDG evaluation just business as usual?
21 April 2020Stefano D'Errico outlines four steps that should be considered in the design of an effective evaluative process for the Sustainable Development Goals
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Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
25 February 2020David Satterthwaite discusses the vast gaps in city data, and explains why planning, governing and servicing cities calls for data that is broken down into city and sub-city level
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Towards better assessment of adaptation results
31 October 2019How can countries align their climate adaptation assessment mechanisms with other frameworks? Barry Smith highlights opportunities for achieving effective adaptation monitoring and evaluation
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Evaluating change can be challenging; it starts with quality data collection
25 June 2019NGOs are increasingly being asked to report on the impact of their work, and good monitoring and evaluation is key. Conservation Through Public Health, a Ugandan NGO, has some lessons to share with other small NGOs and – spoiler alert – it all begins with good data
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Addressing the political and technical challenges of measuring adaptation
18 September 2018Susannah Fisher outlines the challenges that need to be addressed in order to effectively measure progress on adaptation as part of the first global stocktake in 2023
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More haste less speed? Taking time to learn
7 August 2018Some recent experiences have led Rosalind Goodrich to reflect on the importance of allowing time for learning
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Assessing adaptation and development progress
6 July 2018Countries need to know whether their efforts to adapt to climate change are working. The first in a new series of webinars discussed approaches that can help governments assess their progress
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Global to local: supporting cities to meet the New Urban Agenda
23 March 2018The New Urban Agenda sets ambitious sustainability objectives for cities of all sizes. At the 9th World Urban Forum, IIED worked with local governments on how to deliver against the wide-ranging goals. Alexandra Norodom reflects on the power of inclusive processes
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Evaluations, reviews and assessments are key to embedding the SDGs
19 July 2017How can we embed the Sustainable Development Goals into development processes to reach the tipping point that we desperately need for dealing with the big challenges of our time? This blog by Stefano D'Errico follows up a joint UNICEF/EVALSDGs webinar in New York
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Monitoring and evaluation in a local context
18 July 2016Assessing how climate change adaptation and development investments can strengthen local people's resilience to climate extremes
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How to measure a global goal for adaptation?
27 March 2015Climate negotiators are discussing how to set a global goal for climate change adaptation. It's important for the negotiators learn from experiences and evidence gained at country level – so they can develop a goal that reflects differing national realities
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How do we measure adaptation?
11 March 2015How do we effectively measure and enhance adaptation? Saleemul Huq looks at possible answers which will be discussed at the 9th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA9)
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Paper outlines framework to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches
13 February 2015A framework on how to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches while identifying in which contexts social learning works best, and where it is not useful, is now available