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Before,we only monitored our state, now we are looking at the Northeast as a wholeandbeyond. (. . .)Weexpandednotonly theknowledge,butourvisionofwhat happens,becausenaturehasnobarriers,no limits.Technician at a climate institu- tion,Ceara´ state, participant of theDM, interview 17.6.4 Limits andPossibilities of theWBIApproach Implementation in theDroughtNLTA:Lessons toBe Remembered The implementationof theWBIpilot approach in theDroughtNLTAprogramhas raisedsomeimportantpointsofdiscussion, in termsofmethodologicalconclusions and contributions. • Although relevant outcomes can happen in early implementation stages, pro- grams framedasmulti-stakeholder/multi-sectorpartnerships andstronglybased on voluntary collaboration, such as the Drought NTLA, tend to take time to develop. The harvesting of significant outcomeswill likely benefit frommore implementation time.Whenthefirstharvestingwasdone(i.e.,November2014– January 2015), the program was in mid-term implementation phase. Results influencedby theprogramwere starting todevelopbutwerenotyet ready tobe reported as outcomes. • The risk of having partners over-reporting positive outcomes to which the program has not truly contributed (e.g., to please the donor) can be overcome with rigorousmethods.Triangulationof sources (combiningdocument reviews, interviews, andother sources of information) andprobing are extremely neces- sary.Theframeworkprovokes theanalyst todo just that, byasking forevidence of the reportedoutcomes. • Outcomes need to be interpreted taking the context into account (political environment, staff turnover, local andorganizationalculture,necessarysupport, etc.). Fostering partnerships needs respect for the various partners’ capacities and their specific contexts. This principle allows the collaboration to generate outcomesthatsometimesmaybemorerealisticandmorelikelytobesustainable in the longer termthan theplanned,non-achievedoutcomes. It is thecaseof the Piquet Carneiro DPP.While this plan did not define policy andmanagement actions triggered as the drought progresses to higher stages, the planwas built throughabroadconsultationprocess, includingdiscussionsandthedevelopment of theplanproposaland intermediatevalidationswithdifferent stakeholders.As a result, it includescoherent andconsistentmanagement activities related to the preparationandriskreduction,andtouchesonresponseanddisasterrecoveryfor extremedrought effects in themunicipality. It also provides a series of recom- mendations for institutional strengthening, adoption of management tools, 17 Drought PreparednessPolicies andClimateChangeAdaptation andResilience. . . 323