Strategies for monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation: localizing global approaches into Andean realities

This publication evaluates how global approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate change adaptation are being localized in the design and implementation of public policies and territorial strategies for climate change adaptation in the Andes in four national and local case studies in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The analysis is based on a review of the status of national programs for monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation and the implementation in those countries of the project “Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Water Resources in the Andes” (AICCA).

The M&E systems in the four case studies differed widely in the way in which global M&E approaches are localized, reflecting the diversity of conceptions, goals, strategies, and contexts in which adaptation is being implemented, as well as power relations among actors and scales. This study emphasizes the need to further implement participatory M&E systems from the community, to improve the territorial articulation of M&E proposals in the Andean region.