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• Towhat extent have climate change relevant projects proven to be successful and effective in contributing to a climate-resilient development in the partner countries? • Whatobstacles, difficultiesandchallengeshaveundermined thedesiredsuccess and effectiveness of climate change relevant interventions andwhichmeasures were undertaken to address them? Theevaluationwascommissioned toGaiaConsultingOyLtd,Helsinki/Finland, in consortiumwith Zoı¨ Environment Network, Geneva/Switzerland andCreatura Ltd, Bath/UK through an open tendering process. The tender document included the task to develop a suitablemethodology, using different techniques and tools, which allow for the assessment of the project results and the production of aggre- gated result statements at portfolio level. Gaia consortiumwas required to docu- mentmethodology, assessment, results and conclusions in a fully technical report. Thecontract includedalso theproduction,basedonthe technical report,ofapublic report for dissemination, usingmodern communication techniques, including the production of a video. The consortium was therefore charged to present solid evidence-based results in an attractive manner for different targeted audiences. By reporting on and accounting for the achieved results in Climate Change, the report also contributed to the institutional learning at SDCandSECO. 5.3 Methodology In preparation for the Terms of Reference of the mandate, SDC and SECO had alreadyundertaken someanalyticalwork inorder to specify the scopeandvolume of the assessment. Firstly, every project within the whole portfolio of Swiss International Cooperationwas rated ex post on its climate change relevance (the extent to which its main objectives contribute to climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation), resulting in a portfolio of 508 individual, climate change relevant projects.Within this portfolio 283 projects with a total value of CHF975millionwere implementedbySDC,and140projectswitha totalvalueof CHF346millionbySECO.Anumberof theseprojectswere initiatedbefore2000, and someprojectswere still ongoing by the time the evaluationwasfinished. The total budget of climate change related commitments for this period amounted to CHF1.32billion, around5%of theoverallODAfundingprovidedbySwitzerland during these years. Secondly, the intervention logic on portfolio level was reconstructed, resulting in the definition of seven different result chains defining concrete outputs, outcomes and impacts (seeFig. 5.1). The intervention logicsets theframefor formulatinga theoryofchangeforeach of the three areas of interventions (Enabling Framework,Mitigation andAdapta- tion). They are closely linked to the intended results at outcome/impact level formulated inFig. 5.1. 84 M.EggerKissling andR.Windisch