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The climate crisis: four ways evaluations can strengthen policymaking

New briefing by IIED, EVALSDGs and DEval outlines key ways evaluations can accelerate progress towards effective climate policy.

A new briefing by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), EVALSDGs and DEval outlines four key ways in which evaluations can accelerate progress towards effective climate policy.

The handling of the COVID-19 crisis has shown that governments can take prompt evidence-based actions to protect people, livelihoods and the economy. The political will to implement drastic policies during the pandemic provides a benchmark for progressive actions to accelerate and strengthen responses to another crisis: climate change. Governments must learn from the policy gaps exposed by COVID-19 to establish better processes for using science and evidence. Applying evaluation approaches throughout policy cycles, from planning to implementation, can achieve systematic, integrated responses to climate policy; policies capable of considering different scenarios and absorbing complex evidence. Evaluations can also promote accountability and learning to identify socially just solutions and transformational approaches to addressing climate change.

The briefing also highlights Costa Rica´s evaluation of international climate and biodiversity funding, one of the few country-led evaluations of overseas development aid in Latin America. The evaluation is led by Costa Rica’s Ministry for Planning and Economic Policy (Mideplan) and supported by DEval via its FOCELAC project.

This briefing by Emilie Beauchamp, Dirk Hoffmann, Stefano D’Errico, Dorothy Lucks and Kassem El-Saddik is part of a series about evaluation designed to help promote effective conduct and use of evaluation in SDGs implementation, follow-up and review.

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