Monitoring and evaluation of climate resilience for agricultural development – A review of currently available tools

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.creator.identifierSabine Douxchamps: 0000-0002-5286-0753en
cg.creator.identifierLiza Debevec: 0000-0001-6757-7435en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2017.02.001en
cg.identifier.wlethemeLand and Water Productivityen
cg.issn2452-2929en
cg.journalWorld Development Perspectivesen
cg.subject.wleCLIMATE CHANGEen
cg.subject.wleIMPACT ASSESSMENTen
cg.subject.wleRESILIENCEen
cg.volume5en
dc.contributor.authorDouxchamps, Sabineen
dc.contributor.authorDebevec, Lizaen
dc.contributor.authorGiordano, Meredith A.en
dc.contributor.authorBarron, Jennieen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-08T16:43:13Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-08T16:43:13Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/80912
dc.titleMonitoring and evaluation of climate resilience for agricultural development – A review of currently available toolsen
dcterms.abstractBuilding climate resilience, defined as the ability to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from climate change in a timely and efficient manner, is becoming a major priority of development across multiple sectors. However, there is still no consensus on how resilience should be assessed despite the release of numerous theoretical papers on the topic. Various measurement frameworks and recommendations have emerged, but their applicability is yet to be critically assessed. Using a comprehensive review and a systematic selection approach, we review resilience assessment tools developed for the context of climate change and agricultural development, and their linkages to theoretical frameworks, with a particular focus on the choice of indicators and the scale and methods of measurement. Fifteen tools originating from diverse organizations were selected and evaluated according to a measurement framework. Our study finds that, while some of the tools remain embedded in classical approaches, by simply adding a resilience lens to previous tools and by recycling indicators, others demonstrate a true attempt to re-think in order to account for resilience dimensions. We conclude that for the use of resilience assessment tools, a major challenge is to ensure that simple and operational tools can address complexity. Full baseline should comprise both quantitative and qualitative data collection, and include more systemic indicators as well as indicators of stability and shocks. Changes should be tracked with regular monitoring and evaluation using simple tools based on key variables that capture short-term adaptive processes and changes in states, at the appropriate system level. Clear pathways to human well-being, including transformation, should be discussed through system-oriented approaches, to discard potential undesired resilient states. Finally, robust outcome and impact records from the use of these tools are needed to demonstrate whether the resilience concept is useful over time in driving development into more desirable paths.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDouxchamps, S.; Debevec, L.; Giordano, M.; Barron, J. Monitoring and evaluation of climate resilience for agricultural development – A review of currently available tools. World Development Perspectives 5: 10–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2017.02.001.en
dcterms.extentpp. 10-23en
dcterms.issued2017-03en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectadaptation developmenten
dcterms.subjectresilience indicatorsen
dcterms.subjectagricultural systemsen
dcterms.subjecttoolsen
dcterms.subjecttransformationen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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