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Withrespect tobaselinedataverification, thecountyofficialshadbeen taskedto verify the baseline data before the monitoring visit. However but this was not possible as Isiolo is an expansive county and the verification exercise through communityvisitshadnotbeenbudgeted forby thecounty.Asa result thisexercise hadtobedoneretrospectivelyandwasconducted togetherwith thefirstmonitoring visitwhichoccurred just after the commencement of interventions. 15.2.5 Output andOutcomeData Output data,was collected after a period of 9months, against the indicators in the wardToCsandthecountygovernmentscorecard(Table15.3).Earlyoutcomedata was collected with an outcome assessment tool, after one and a half years to determine whether there were any changes being experienced from adaptation actions being implemented. This tool allowed theward adaptation planning com- mittees toassess theextent towhichoutcomesasdepicted in their respectiveToCs hadbeenachievedthroughascoringsystem.Theresultsof thisscoringaredepicted inTable 15.2. 15.3 Challengeswith Implementing theMethodology13 Afewchallengeswereexperiencedwhenimplementingthedescribedmethodology as detailed below: • Developing adaptation Indicators: As stakeholders were used to developing output indicators as opposed to outcome indicators in development projects, theprocessofdevelopingadaptation indicators toadequatelymeasureresilience in the longer termproved to be a challenge. • Use of climate variability information in the development and adjustment of adaptation actions:An adaptationM&Eframework assumes that the design of adaptationactionshas incorporatedclimaterisk information.Italsoassumesthat climate trendswill be continuouslymonitored throughout project implementa- tion inorder toattribute anyoutcomes toenhancedadaptivecapacity asa result of the interventions.However itwas found that climate variability data hadnot beenusedwhendesigning the adaptation interventions due to its unavailability during the design phase of the actions. In addition technical capacity to down- scale climate trends inorder todeterminebaseline scenarios in the countywere also limited. 13Adapted fromKarani, I.,Kariuki,N.,&Osman,F. (2014).Trackingadaptationandmeasuring development. Kenya research report. London, UK: International Institute for Environmental Development (IIED).Retrieved fromhttp://pubs.iied.org/10101IIED.html 278 I.Karani andN.Kariuki