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Evaluation of Adaptation Programs to Climate Change Impacts
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| Claudio Volonte, Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office, cvolonte@thegef.org
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The Global Environment Facility has provided $50 million in support of investments (22 projects) that aimed at reducing vulnerability and increasing adaptive capacity to the adverse effects of climate change, particularly within natural resources management. The GEF Evaluation Office conducted an evaluation of these program to be submitted to the GEF Council to provide lessons to further development of decisions within the GEF regarding adaptation. The evaluation provides some innovative methodologies to evaluate adaptation programs, findings on the achievements so far, relevance of the program to national priorities and the UN convention on climate change, efficiency of program implementation and sustainability of its outcomes. The findings and recommendations were considered and accepted by the GEF governing body. The evaluation is available in the GEF Evaluation Office website (http://www.thegef.org/gef/node/3726).
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Supporting Innovation and Innovators: Ruminations on the Role of Developmental Evaluation in the National Park Service
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| Jennifer Jewiss, University of Vermont, jennifer.jewiss@uvm.edu
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As the National Park Service (NPS) prepares for its centennial in 2016, a commission was convened to conduct a yearlong appraisal of the national park system. The Second Century Commission's report, Advancing the National Park Idea (2009), noted that individual parks have developed many innovative programs. The commission identified a pressing need to share programmatic innovations more effectively across the system and support adaptation of innovations to suit highly varied local contexts. An NPS research and think tank, the Conservation Study Institute, has been exploring how it might help address these needs. Several recent projects conducted in partnership with the University of Vermont have taken a developmental evaluation approach. This paper reflects on lessons learned regarding the role that developmental evaluation can play as the NPS seeks to support innovators and advance the sharing of innovation. Insights from the emerging literature on developmental evaluation are featured alongside the author's reflections.
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Proposal for a Qualitative Evaluation Method for Environmental Policy Regarding Climate Change
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| Kiyotaka Nakashima, , knakashi@iwate-u.ac.jp
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This presentation proposes a qualitative method for the evaluation of environmental policy regarding climate change ("climate policy"). This evaluation method emphasizes a sequential and systematic outlook, which attaches importance to the interrelatedness (synthesis and interdisciplinarity), and the process (history) of climate policy. Firstly, a general evaluation framework is established for evaluating climate policy through interdisciplinary review of the academic research on social science in environmental policy. Next, the processes of international negotiation and commitment implementation are evaluated by applying the established framework. The point at issue of climate policy is examined by being related to the articles of the international agreements and the evaluation criteria of the international cooperation. This presentation proposes a qualitative method for evaluating climate policy which considers the interrelatedness of multiple research objects through feedback between theoretical and empirical research, or between international negotiation and commitment implementation processes.
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