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Simon Anderson

Senior fellow, Strategy and Learning

Simon is currently working on monitoring and evaluation for learning, gender equality and issues of sustainable development universality. His work includes ways to transform experiential learning of sustainable development into evidence for policy. Simon is co-chair of IIED’s gender equality champions network. He is exploring how to use realist approaches to learning at the interfaces of gender equality and universality. 
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Expertise

Monitoring and evaluation for learning; mixed modality research on poverty eradication, agro-ecology, climate adaptation; and policy analysis.

Before IIED

DFID: Central Research Department and Evaluation Department.
Imperial College: Centre for Development and Poverty Reduction.

Current work

Realist approaches to learning for sustainable development. 

Interviews

IIED expert interviews: Simon Anderson
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Telephone: 
+44 (0) 131 300 0157
Email: 
simon.anderson@iied.org
Twitter: @SiMacAnderson
Languages: English, Spanish

Simon Anderson's projects

Researchers talk to villagers in Sheikhuwal village in rural Pakistan

Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)

Project, Sep 2014
A house on the island of Padma Pakur is submerged by the rising waters (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)

Building climate change resilience in South Asia

Project, Jun 2014

Latest publications

How can standardised evaluation metrics increase climate resilience?

Framing and tracking 21st century climate adaptation

How bottom-up M&E insights can inform national adaptation planning and reporting

How integrated monitoring and evaluation systems can help countries address climate impacts

From climate risk to climate resilience

Evaluation: a missed opportunity in the SDGs’ first set of Voluntary National Reviews

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Simon Anderson's blog posts

Participants around a table at D&C Days 2016 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Transparency and accountability in the Paris Agreement: eight questions climate negotiators must tackle

Blog, Oct 2017
Mozambique: bringing the cattle in from the fields. Mozambique is vulnerable to climate change because of its geography, but also has a poorly developed economy, frail infrastructure, and high levels of poverty (Photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Climate finance from the aid budget must also deliver on poverty

Blog, Sep 2015

COP19 in Warsaw – a private finance climate conference?

Blog, Oct 2013

Can Scotland's Climate Justice Fund show the way?

Blog, Oct 2013
Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.

How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?

Blog, Dec 2012
A woman tends an irrigation channel in the Bolivian ‘altiplano,’ or highlands.

Climate change adaptation needs to be part of national development planning

Blog, Oct 2012
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50 years linking local to global

Find out more about IIED’s plans in our 50th birthday year: our achievements and what comes next…

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