Learning from adaptation to develop loss and damage monitoring and evaluation systems

Key Points

• This research aims to explore the challenges in evaluating loss and damage interventions in climate governance.
• Review of existing literature on adaptation monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and learning (MERL).
• Analysis of conceptual and political challenges in assessing intervention success.
• Development of a proposed research and action agenda for loss and damage.
• Identified gaps in current MERL frameworks for loss and damage assessment.
• Outlined key political and methodological challenges affecting intervention success.
• Proposed actionable strategies for better evaluation of loss and damage initiatives.