Nepal policy briefing

Together with our partners from Practical Action Nepal, we developed a policy brief based on Nepal’s experience in monitoring and evaluating climate adaptation investments.

As countries work to operationalize the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), they must confront with the emerging question of how progress on adaptation can be meaningfully measured. Nepal’s experience as an early mover in adaptation planning reveals that building monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems is as much a political process as it is a technical one.

This policy brief reflects on Nepal’s adaptation journey since 2009, including its attempts to develop a national measurement framework for adaptation, to explore the deeper questions that policymakers and practitioners must engage with. This includes the purpose, data requirements, sustainability, learning mechanisms, incentives, and institutional linkages of such national measurement systems.  The brief thus invites reflection on how adaptation M&E can move beyond compliance-driven exercises toward approaches that are nationally grounded and capable of informing future decision-making.

The paper is here.