Promoting Effective Policies and Reforms for Climate Change Mitigation

The global climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges regarding the preservation and development of natural and human systems, which jeopardises the achievement of development goals and the development policy successes of recent decades. It is crucial for effective climate policies to be implemented in order for the transformational change and just transition required to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement to become a reality.

The evaluation contributes towards learning and accountability. Programme-based approaches, policy-based financing and the promotion of macroeconomic policies in bilateral and multilateral technical and financial cooperation are examined. The relevance, coherence, effectiveness, overall development impact and sustainability of these interventions are assessed. The evaluation is scheduled to be published in the second quarter of 2027.

The evaluation will first systematically summarise existing knowledge in an evidence synthesis to understand how the evaluated development cooperation instruments work. Based on this theoretical foundation, the evaluation will then use comparative case analyses and in-depth case studies to generate evidence on the impact of policy-based mitigation interventions. The data basis consists of portfolio data as well as data on expected impacts such as sector-specific emissions, climate policies and context-specific indicators of a just transition and transformational change.