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Table 18.3 (continued) Examples from practice TheClimate Investment Funds’Pilot Program forClimateResilience (PPCR)has operationalized the indicators “Degree of integrationof climate change in national, including sector, planning” and the “Evi- denceof strengthenedgovernment capacity and coordinationmecha- nismtomainstreamclimateresilience” throughscorecards(R€ohrerand Kouadio2015).The indicatorsarespecified throughfivesub-questions which aremeasured at national level against criteria to bedefinedby the national stakeholders Toassess thedevelopmentofmainstreamingcapacityof lineministries executing theGovernment ofEthiopia’sClimate-ResilientGreen Economy (CRGE) strategy aparticipatory self-assessment approach wasdesigned (Adler et al. 2015).Anassessmentmatrixcovering three aspects ofmainstreaming (planning, staff awareness and skills aswell as safeguards and equity) provides the scoring criteria.Aqualified assessor and the interviewees jointly agree on the score for each component basedon the assessmentmatrix IIED’sTrackingAdaptation andMeasuringDevelopment (TAMD) framework suggests indicators for climate riskmanagement (track1) and for adaptation anddevelopment performance (track2) basedona theoryofchange.Anumberofgeneric indicators for track1havebeen defined andcanbe assessed through scorecards (Brooks et al. 2014) Links TheClimate Investment Fund’swebsite onmeasuring results: http:// www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/cif/measuring-results IIED’swebsite on theTrackingAdaptation andMeasuringDevelop- ment (TAMD) framework: http://www.iied.org/tracking-adaptation- measuring-development-tamd Repository of adaptation indicators: examples fromnationalmonitor- ing andevaluation systems (Hammil et al. 2014b) Table18.4 Specificpurpose:monitoringtheimplementationofNationalAdaptationPlanprocess (NAPprocess) Approach: defining andmonitoringmilestones in theNAPprocess Background:TheNationalAdaptationPlan (NAP)processwasestablishedby theparties to the UNFCCCtoreducevulnerabilityandintegrateadaptationintopoliciesandplanningprocessesat all levels (UNFCCC2011).The initial guidelines for the formulationofNAPs state that least developedcountryparties should “provide information in their national communications on the progressmade and the effectiveness of the national adaptation planprocess.” (UNFCCC2011, p. 86) Prospect Knowingwhether theNAPprocess inaparticularcountry isadvancing in accordance to predefinedmilestones or targets Potential use ofM&E findings To track the implementation of theNAPprocess formanagement and accountability purposes Description Milestones or targets for theNAPprocess in a particular country are definedand their achievementmonitoredat agreedpoints in time.The milestones or targets need tobe specific enough to enable anunam- biguous assessment basedondocument analysis or interviews (continued) 336 T.Leiter