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monitoring, evaluation, learning and process facilitation, and with private sector companies to strengthen their sustainability development. Jacques Somda is a senior regional programofficerwith the InternationalUnion for conservation of nature, Central andWestAfrica program.He holds a doctoral degree inruraleconomics for theUniversityofCocody,Coˆted’Ivoire.His research workfocusesonproject/programmonitoringandevaluation,climatechangeM&E, environmental economics, technology adoption andpolicy analysis. Philip Thornton leads the flagship on “Policies and institutions for climate- resilient food systems” of the CGIARResearch Programme onClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). He is hosted at the International Live- stockResearchInstitute (ILRI) inNairobi,Kenya,andbased inEdinburgh.Heisan Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh.Hehas aPhD inFarmManagement andAgricultural Economics from LincolnCollege,NewZealand.His research interests include integratedmodelling atdifferent scales andevaluatingclimatechange impacts andadaptationoptions in smallholder farming systems in the tropics and subtropics. He has contributed to several global assessments including the IPCC’sFourth andFifthAssessments. AbasseTougiani isaSeniorScientistatNationalAgriculturalResearchInstituteof Niger (INRAN)andheisa ICRAFfocalpoint inNiamey,Niger.HeholdsaPhDin Biology and Silviculture from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interests includeAgro forestry, ClimateChange, Iintegration ofAgricul- ture Livestock and Tree species production system and cultivation of high-value indigenous tree species. Pia Treichel is the Program Manager for Climate Change Adaptation at Plan InternationalAustralia.With over 9 years’ experienceworking on climate change with a focus ranging from local government to theUnitedNations, Pia currently worksonchild-andyouth-centredclimatechangewithPlanInternational.Piahasa Master ofEnvironment degree fromMelbourneUniversity. Juha I. Uitto is Director of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office. He has previously held positions asDeputyDirector andEvaluationAdviser in the Inde- pendentEvaluationOfficeoftheUnitedNationsDevelopmentProgramme(UNDP) and asMonitoring andEvaluationCoordinator/Specialistwith theGEF. Since the late-1990s, he has conducted andmanaged a large number of programmatic and thematicevaluationsofinternationalcooperationat theglobal, regionalandcountry levels, inparticularrelatedtoenvironmentalmanagementandpoverty-environment linkages.Dr.Uittospent the1990swith theUnitedNationsUniversitycoordinating the university’s environment and sustainable development research and training programs. His earlier work included positions in the Nordic Africa Institute, the InternationalFundforAgriculturalDevelopmentandasconsultant indevelopment cooperation. He has had visiting positions in the Graduate School of Global About theAuthors 349