VITAL Climate Collective: connecting demand for climate adaptation needs with supply of climate finance
Active Project
Sam Barrett
Senior evaluator and lead analyst
Sam's work focuses on monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), effectiveness and impact of investments in adaptation, including the value and commercial viability of investments in climate adaptation. Sam also works on integrating climate into development programming and climate risk assessments.
Expertise
Adaptation finance effectiveness; value of adaptation; private investment in climate adaptation; climate-resilient livelihoods; monitoring and evaluation of climate adaptation programmes; integration of climate into development planning and decision-making; economic valuations of climate adaptation/resilient policy.
Before IIED
- UK Meteorological Office
- Perspectives: Climate Change
Education
- PhD geography, Trinity College Dublin
- MSC international relations, London School of Economics
- BA political science, Trinity College Dublin
Current work
- Monitoring, evaluation and aearning of adaptation, Climate Justice Communities – Scottish Government)
- Climate integration into development programming, CLEAN helpdesk – SouthSouthNorth)
- Private investment in adaptation, VITAL (Valuing Variability for Transformation in Arid-Semi-Arid Landscapes) Climate Collective
- Asian Development Ban work on adaptation metrics
