Tag: monitoring evaluation learning (MEL)

Online Course on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for National Adaptation Plan Processes

This free, self-paced course launches on April 1, 2025.

Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems are essential to understanding whether national adaptation plan (NAP) processes work, how they work, and for whom, while offering insights to improve climate change adaptation actions. This course will equip climate change adaptation professionals with key methodologies, tools, and practical skills for implementing effective MEL systems for NAP processes. […]

Peer Learning Event: Developing and strengthening MEL systems in NAP processes 

Ha Long, Viet Nam | September 10 to 12, 2024

The NAP Global Network and the Government of Vietnam co-organized a 3-day regional peer learning event for Asian-Pacific countries from September 10 to 12 in Ha Long City, Vietnam, on monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems for national adaptation plan (NAP) processes.   Representatives from Vietnam (host), Bhutan, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Tonga, and […]

How to Integrate Learning Into Climate Adaptation Policy Processes

Julie Dekens (IISD), Blane Harvey (McGill University), Andrea K. Gerlak (University of Arizona), and Tanya Heikkila (University of Colorado Denver)

View Report The effectiveness of climate change adaptation decision making largely depends on how well governments and other actors embed deliberate learning into the policy process. Indeed, research shows that learning does not happen automatically—it needs to be created and nurtured.   In the new report Integrating Learning in the National Adaptation Plan Process, Julie Dekens […]