Linking Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation to Climate Change Across Scales: Avenues and Practical Approaches

Abstract Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts to prepare for, adjust to, and reduce the impacts of climate change—a process known as adaptation—can help to understand the results of adaptation interventions and better account for progress over time. Information on adaptation is so far typically gathered through either project and program, or national‐level climate change adaptation M&E systems with limited connection between them. However, given that adaptation takes place at multiple scales, a complete picture of the adaptation progress can only be established if information from national and subnational levels is combined. The chapter outlines three avenues illustrated by examples from practice on how information on adaptation interventions and evaluation results can be connected across scales in order to improve the evidence base for adaptation planning and decision making.