change. The technologies to do this exist and need to be fostered and promoted:
evaluative evidence shows that when they are introduced properly and supported
by all actors, they can be effective fertilizers of change.
7. On adaptation to climate change many promising evaluative findings are emerging; what is lacking is a concentrated effort to gather the evaluative evidence and
interpret it, learn at higher levels of aggregation and integrate adaptation into
social, economic and environmental development as the essential ingredient that
will ensure sustainability.
2.10 Recommendations for Future Evaluations
As argued in van den Berg (2013, p. 47), evaluations of climate change interventions, especially if they aim for a higher more comprehensive level of understanding what the interventions mean and what they achieve in the longer run, need
to evaluate in the context of the continuing societal and economic winds that are
causing climate change. Evaluators need to point out to policy makers and decision
makers that what they promote with one hand, is more than sufficiently undone with
a very active and much bigger other hand.
If the forces of destruction can be reduced or even halted, climate change action
will become successful. How successful can currently not be established fully for
all actions – there is some international agreement on measurement of reductions of
greenhouse gas emissions, but this agreement needs to be further developed. Many
countries, multilateral and bilateral organizations are currently using various measurement systems at the same time in different projects – this needs to be improved.
Evaluations, not just the seven comprehensive ones, but the many evaluations at
the intervention level as well (many of which are highlighted in this book), provide
an increasing body of knowledge that has been insufficiently explored for policy
makers and decision makers on what works, where and when and for whom under
what circumstances. This should focus on:
• How systems change can be effected through activities on key issues that will
“tip” or “tilt” the system in the right direction;
• Identify the top-down actions that can and should be taken as they have proven
to be effective; similarly look at bottom-up actions that can and should be
supported;
• Present evidence on the difference in effectiveness between inclusive, gender
sensitive, equity based approaches versus approaches that lack these
perspectives;
• Contribute to a repository of evidence on which technologies under which
circumstances, for whom, have proven to be effective in supporting more
sustainable and low-carbon growth;
• Contribute to a repository of evidence on what works for whom, when, where,
and under which circumstances on adaptation to climate change.
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evaluative evidence shows that when they are introduced properly and supported
by all actors, they can be effective fertilizers of change.
7. On adaptation to climate change many promising evaluative findings are emerging; what is lacking is a concentrated effort to gather the evaluative evidence and
interpret it, learn at higher levels of aggregation and integrate adaptation into
social, economic and environmental development as the essential ingredient that
will ensure sustainability.
2.10 Recommendations for Future Evaluations
As argued in van den Berg (2013, p. 47), evaluations of climate change interventions, especially if they aim for a higher more comprehensive level of understanding what the interventions mean and what they achieve in the longer run, need
to evaluate in the context of the continuing societal and economic winds that are
causing climate change. Evaluators need to point out to policy makers and decision
makers that what they promote with one hand, is more than sufficiently undone with
a very active and much bigger other hand.
If the forces of destruction can be reduced or even halted, climate change action
will become successful. How successful can currently not be established fully for
all actions – there is some international agreement on measurement of reductions of
greenhouse gas emissions, but this agreement needs to be further developed. Many
countries, multilateral and bilateral organizations are currently using various measurement systems at the same time in different projects – this needs to be improved.
Evaluations, not just the seven comprehensive ones, but the many evaluations at
the intervention level as well (many of which are highlighted in this book), provide
an increasing body of knowledge that has been insufficiently explored for policy
makers and decision makers on what works, where and when and for whom under
what circumstances. This should focus on:
• How systems change can be effected through activities on key issues that will
“tip” or “tilt” the system in the right direction;
• Identify the top-down actions that can and should be taken as they have proven
to be effective; similarly look at bottom-up actions that can and should be
supported;
• Present evidence on the difference in effectiveness between inclusive, gender
sensitive, equity based approaches versus approaches that lack these
perspectives;
• Contribute to a repository of evidence on which technologies under which
circumstances, for whom, have proven to be effective in supporting more
sustainable and low-carbon growth;
• Contribute to a repository of evidence on what works for whom, when, where,
and under which circumstances on adaptation to climate change.
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