The Community of Practice for Monitoring and Evaluation is approaching 2022 with the prioritisation of two thematic clusters: Damage and Loss Assessment and Climate Services.
1 March 2022.- The Community of Practice for Climate Policy Monitoring and Evaluation was created with the idea of generating a space for exchange and information among peers involved in the monitoring and accountability of climate plans and policies in the countries of the Latin American region. The needs in terms of Monitoring and Evaluation associated with Climate Change are growing every year as the need to report in a transparent manner on the fulfilment of the commitments made before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement and other multilateral agreements is reinforced.
The space for exchange on Monitoring and Evaluation, which began in 2018, is now in its second year as a space for exchange, socialisation of experiences and dialog among peers to strengthen Monitoring and Evaluation practices in Latin America. Representatives from 18 countries in the region make up this working group, which has held a total of 24 thematic sessions since its inception in November 2018.
The CoP M&E was created in response to a demand identified at the Exchange Workshop “Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Policies” held in Mexico. It was made up of a diverse group of representatives from environment, sectoral, planning and finance ministries as well as academia, cooperation agencies and consultants, all in one way or another involved in setting up climate policy monitoring and evaluation systems.
The Community of Practices in 2021
In 2021, it was decided to focus discussions on the Monitoring and Evaluation aspects related to adaptation, with issues that are difficult to address such as the global adaptation goal. As adaptation assessment moves towards a global scale, the local is becoming less relevant. While the global goal and global stocktaking aim to increase ambition, if the link between the adaptation goal and the local level is not maintained, the instrument may lose its catalytic effect for increasing and achieving the expected ambition.
In Glasgow, the Glasgow-Sharm el Sheik Programme was approved, with a view to COP28 and the reporting tables for the Enhanced Transparency Framework. In 2022, the technical paper on M&E for Adaptation from the Adaptation Committee and the report on impact, adaptation, and vulnerability from IPCC Group II are expected this month.
At the operational level, the working sessions are structured around specific themes. For each session, panellists have been sought who can contribute different visions (international, regional, national or local) to enrich the discussions. These presentations are followed by group work with feedback in a plenary session.
The Community of Practices in 2022
The CoP M&E is now entering a new year and with it the new themes prioritised by the participants:
- Assessment of damages and losses due to adverse effects of climate change.
- Climate services. Design, monitoring and evaluation of nature-based public policies/solutions.
The new needs brought about by a changing climate, in which the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is increasing, make it all the more necessary to be able to quantify the damage and losses caused by extreme weather events. Furthermore, nature-based solutions represent a possible alternative to meet the new demands of both adaptation and mitigation in climate commitments.
The proposal is to work in a cycle of 2 to 3 sessions per theme in order to deepen exchanges among peers and identify ways for improvement adapted to different contexts.
About EUROCLIMA+
EUROCLIMA+ is a programme funded by the European Union and co-financed by the German federal government through the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as well as by the governments of France and Spain through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.
The Programme's mission is to reduce the impact of climate change and its effects in 18 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting mitigation, adaptation, resilience and climate investment. It is implemented according to the "Spirit of Team Europe" under the synergistic work of seven agencies: the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), the AFD Group: French Development Agency (AFD)/ Expertise France (EF), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the International and Ibero-America Foundation for Administration and Public Policy (FIIAPP), the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH, and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
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