Developing countries to pioneer systems to track climate change

VibeGhana.com: New systems for tracking the social impact of efforts to adapt to climate change could soon be in place in Africa and South Asia.

Working with policy and research partners in these regions, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (Adaptify and Garama 3C Limited) has designed a framework and tools that would enable countries to ensure that their efforts to adapt to climate change and efforts to development work in concert.

IIED is engaging with governments of five developing nations including Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal and Pakistan to test the framework and tools as means to evaluate a range of climate adaptation activities.

Government representatives and researchers would join IIED staff and other partners in Edinburgh on March 19-20, to review the design for the feasibility testing arrangements and next steps.

Representatives of the Scottish Government and their advisers would also attend the meeting to share their experiences of planning climate adaptation and designing a monitoring and evaluating framework.

“While most frameworks for evaluating responses to climate change assume that adaptation will neutralise harm and allow development to continue as planned, but this underestimates the real change needed to keep development on track,” says Dr Simon Anderson, head of IIED’s climate change group….