Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Change Actions: Engaging Stakeholders

1. Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Change Actions: Engaging Stakeholders Session 2: Implementing M&E Training for CCC on Monitoring and Evaluation 3-4 April 2019

2. Session Objectives • Understand the role of stakeholders in M&E and Learning • Present inputs on processes to ensure meaningful stakeholder engagement in M&E process and activities • Discuss current bottlenecks and opportunities

3. Stakeholders • any individual, group, or organization who has an interest or may be impacted by an outcome. • any individual, group, or organization that could be positively or negatively affected by results of actions • any individual, group, or organization who can influence the success and sustainability, or otherwise, of a development action • M&E Stakeholders are those who take decisions using the M&E data and findings

4. Why Engage Stakeholders in M&E • Efficiency and Effectiveness • Stakeholders participation can help maximize impact of the data and learning from M&E results. Such, however, can only be true when the data being captured is meaningful and useful to them. • Increases ownership and engagement especially when their participation is not only on planning the desired outcome and during M&E process, but also applying the learnings and adjustments to climate impacts now and in the future • Promotes and facilitate better communications and advocacy

5. Conventional M&E vs Participatory M&E Conventional Participatory is a process of individual and collective learning and capacity development through which people become more aware and conscious of their strengths and weaknesses, their wider social realities, and their visions and perspectives of development outcomes. This learning process creates conditions conducive to change and action emphasises varying degrees of participation (from low to high) of different types of stakeholders in initiating, defining the parameters for, and conducting M&E is a social process of negotiation between people’s different needs, expectations and worldviews. It is a highly political process which addresses issues of equity, power and social transformation is a flexible process, continuously evolving and adapting to the programme specific circumstances and needs. • Aims at making a judgment on the programme for accountability purposes rather than empowering programme stakeholders • Strives for “scientific” objectivity of M&E findings thereby distancing the external evaluator(s) from stakeholders • tends to emphasise the needs for information of programme funders and policy makers rather than programme implementers and people affected by the programme • Focuses on measurement of success according to predetermined indicators. Source: Estrella, 1997

6. Which stakeholder do we involve on M&E? • Again, this is contextual and purpose driven considering that CC priority/theme’s goals, actions, and results being subjected to M&E may be covering one or more of the following:

7. Which stakeholder do we involve on M&E?

8. Stakeholder Engagement - Practices1 1 https://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/dinamic-content/think/documents/CR_Stakeholder.pdf

9. How to engage stakeholders in M&E • Map and analyze stakeholders (from the beginning!) • ROLES? • PARTICIPATION? • COMMITMENT? • ENGAGEMENT? https://innovationforsocialchange.org/en/stakeholder-analysis/

10. How to engage stakeholders in M&E (Modalities)

11. Example The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) Stakeholder Engagement Plan

12. Overview • The goal of NCCARF Phase 2 is to support national capacity development and deliver guidance that helps local decision-makers manage climate risks. This goal can only be achieved through effective stakeholder engagement. • We define our stakeholders as those individuals and groups with a specific interest in adaptation in Australia, particularly in the coastal zone, and, hence, in the project outputs. Effective engagement with stakeholders is critical if NCCARF is to successfully achieve the objectives for Phase 2. • This Plan outlines the approach to be taken in communication and engagement with stakeholders to ensure its effectiveness throughout all Phase 2 activities. • The Plan identifies and characterises key stakeholders, and outlines appropriate tools for communication and communication tactics for different stakeholder groups. • The Plan will be regularly reviewed in the light of feedback from stakeholder interaction.

13. Rules of stakeholder engagement

14. Stakeholder identification and roles

15. Modes of Engagement

16. Modes of Engagement

17. Principal tools for Engagement

18. End of Presentation Thank you for your attention!