• To what extent have climate change relevant projects proven to be successful
and effective in contributing to a climate-resilient development in the partner
countries?
• What obstacles, difficulties and challenges have undermined the desired success
and effectiveness of climate change relevant interventions and which measures
were undertaken to address them?
The evaluation was commissioned to Gaia Consulting Oy Ltd, Helsinki/Finland,
in consortium with Zoı ¨ Environment Network, Geneva/Switzerland and Creatura
Ltd, Bath/UK through an open tendering process. The tender document included
the task to develop a suitable methodology, using different techniques and tools,
which allow for the assessment of the project results and the production of aggregated result statements at portfolio level. Gaia consortium was required to document methodology, assessment, results and conclusions in a fully technical report.
The contract included also the production, based on the technical report, of a public
report for dissemination, using modern communication techniques, including the
production of a video. The consortium was therefore charged to present solid
evidence-based results in an attractive manner for different targeted audiences.
By reporting on and accounting for the achieved results in Climate Change, the
report also contributed to the institutional learning at SDC and SECO.
5.3 Methodology
In preparation for the Terms of Reference of the mandate, SDC and SECO had
already undertaken some analytical work in order to specify the scope and volume
of the assessment. Firstly, every project within the whole portfolio of Swiss
International Cooperation was rated ex post on its climate change relevance (the
extent to which its main objectives contribute to climate change mitigation and
climate change adaptation), resulting in a portfolio of 508 individual, climate
change relevant projects. Within this portfolio 283 projects with a total value of
CHF 975 million were implemented by SDC, and 140 projects with a total value of
CHF 346 million by SECO. A number of these projects were initiated before 2000,
and some projects were still ongoing by the time the evaluation was finished. The
total budget of climate change related commitments for this period amounted to
CHF 1.32 billion, around 5 % of the overall ODA funding provided by Switzerland
during these years. Secondly, the intervention logic on portfolio level was
reconstructed, resulting in the definition of seven different result chains defining
concrete outputs, outcomes and impacts (see Fig. 5.1).
The intervention logic sets the frame for formulating a theory of change for each
of the three areas of interventions (Enabling Framework, Mitigation and Adaptation). They are closely linked to the intended results at outcome/impact level
formulated in Fig. 5.1.
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and effective in contributing to a climate-resilient development in the partner
countries?
• What obstacles, difficulties and challenges have undermined the desired success
and effectiveness of climate change relevant interventions and which measures
were undertaken to address them?
The evaluation was commissioned to Gaia Consulting Oy Ltd, Helsinki/Finland,
in consortium with Zoı ¨ Environment Network, Geneva/Switzerland and Creatura
Ltd, Bath/UK through an open tendering process. The tender document included
the task to develop a suitable methodology, using different techniques and tools,
which allow for the assessment of the project results and the production of aggregated result statements at portfolio level. Gaia consortium was required to document methodology, assessment, results and conclusions in a fully technical report.
The contract included also the production, based on the technical report, of a public
report for dissemination, using modern communication techniques, including the
production of a video. The consortium was therefore charged to present solid
evidence-based results in an attractive manner for different targeted audiences.
By reporting on and accounting for the achieved results in Climate Change, the
report also contributed to the institutional learning at SDC and SECO.
5.3 Methodology
In preparation for the Terms of Reference of the mandate, SDC and SECO had
already undertaken some analytical work in order to specify the scope and volume
of the assessment. Firstly, every project within the whole portfolio of Swiss
International Cooperation was rated ex post on its climate change relevance (the
extent to which its main objectives contribute to climate change mitigation and
climate change adaptation), resulting in a portfolio of 508 individual, climate
change relevant projects. Within this portfolio 283 projects with a total value of
CHF 975 million were implemented by SDC, and 140 projects with a total value of
CHF 346 million by SECO. A number of these projects were initiated before 2000,
and some projects were still ongoing by the time the evaluation was finished. The
total budget of climate change related commitments for this period amounted to
CHF 1.32 billion, around 5 % of the overall ODA funding provided by Switzerland
during these years. Secondly, the intervention logic on portfolio level was
reconstructed, resulting in the definition of seven different result chains defining
concrete outputs, outcomes and impacts (see Fig. 5.1).
The intervention logic sets the frame for formulating a theory of change for each
of the three areas of interventions (Enabling Framework, Mitigation and Adaptation). They are closely linked to the intended results at outcome/impact level
formulated in Fig. 5.1.
84
M. Egger Kissling and R. Windisch