Monitoring, evaluation and learning

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Monitoring and evaluation (M&E)

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work developing and advocating for new approaches to assessing progress on sustainable development and climate action. This aims to create evidence-based collective learning that will inform future decisions, both national and global.

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September 2015: on the eve of the United Nations summit to agree the 2030 Agenda, a film introducing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is projected onto the UN headquarters building (Photo: UN Photo/Cia Pak)

Effective evaluation for the Sustainable Development Goals

Active Project

More than 70 people joined the webinar about evaluation and voluntary national reviews. You can watch a recording of the webinar at the bottom of this page (Image: IIED)

Evaluations, reviews and assessments are key to embedding the SDGs

Insight, 19 July 2017

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)

Taking a more rigorous approach to evaluation

Article, 18 May 2017

An IIED workshop in September 2016 that focused on conceptualising 'better evidence' (Photo: Celie Manuel/IIED)

Generating better evidence for sustainable development research and evaluation

Active Project

Community-led mapping in the informal settlement of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya, helps to record and reflect local people's needs and priorities (Photo: Sohel Ahmed)

Q&A: Why do we need a philosophy for better evidence?

Article, 14 March 2017

Diagram showing change at different scales (Image: Stefano D'Errico/IIED)

Monitoring, evaluation and learning capacity development

Active Project

A word cloud with words relevant to monitoring, evaluation and learning (Image: IIED)

Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods

Article, 01 March 2017

Ruth Nguli looks at her crop of drought-tolerant beans in Makueni County, Kenya. Developing and sharing climate-smart farming techniques can help communities adapt to climate changes (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How do we measure adaptation?

Insight, 11 March 2015

A CCAFS and CIAT participatory photography project in Chiquimula, Guatemala. A framework on how to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches is now available. (Photo: Gian Betancourt/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Paper outlines framework to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches

Insight, 13 February 2015

A girl in Pakistan collects rainwater for washing (Photo: Fawad Khan)

Recognising the concerns of women and girls can improve the effectiveness of climate change adaptation

Insight, 14 January 2015

Senbetge, in Ethiopia's Amhara region is prone to droughts and flooding. Credit: EC DG ECHO (Creative Commons Licence)

Six nations to share progress on measuring adaptation to climate change

News, 19 March 2014

A sign near Kathmandu, Nepal, warns of the dangers of landslides (Photo: Doug Letterman, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Nepal: Measuring resilience to climate change from the community up

Insight, 07 February 2014

Cover for 17275IIED.pdf

Using wellbeing indicators and climate information to assess adaptation effectiveness

Publication, 01 December 2014

This culvert, constructed to allow villagers to cross the River Mahenya, Kenya, proves insufficient at times of extreme rainfall. Kenya is one of the pilot countries for TAMD which aims to improve the way climate adaptation is assessed (Photo: Robin Wyatt)

Measuring the impact of climate adaptation on development

Article, 20 January 2014

Boat surrounded by vegetation growing in the water near the river port of Vallemi.

Will Payments for Watershed Services fuel the protection of ecosystem services?

Insight, 21 June 2013

Taking the long view on adaptation

Insight, 12 December 2011

REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?

Insight, 15 September 2011

How can we measure adaptation: monitoring and evaluation as an entry point?

Insight, 31 March 2011

Related tags

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Climate change adaptation

Paris Agreement

Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD)