(1 week)
Overview
The final unit will explore established, emerging, and failed approaches to monitoring, reporting, and evaluation for resilience and adaptation. Drawing on local and international examples, this unit will confront the challenges and opportunities that arise when one seeks to assess the outcomes associated with resilience and adaptation action. This will include a conversation about intangible outcomes, shift baselines, and the difficulty and possible futility of collecting quantitative indicator data. The role of expert assessment and qualitative indicators as an antidote to this challenge will also be discussed.
Learners will be encouraged to critically consider MRE schemes, and to articulate desirable outcomes in terms that are clear and actionable. Insights from the field of program evaluation will also be brought into the conversation as this field offers conceptual and empirical guidance. Indigenous approaches to MRE will be discussed using examples from literature, knowledge products, and experts.
Activities and Assessment Overview
- Complete Unit 5 readings
- Complete Assignment 4
- Contribute to the MACAL course community by posting questions, comments, and reflections in the course discussion forum.
Unit 5 Activity 1: Complete Required Readings
The readings for this unit focus on monitoring, reporting, and evaluation which is acknowledged to be an emerging area in the practice of climate resilience. Although well established in other contexts, MRE is less well understood in the context of climate resilience. These readings and this unit give learners a chance to engage with this emerging area.
Unit 5 Activity 2: Complete Assignment 4
Assignment 4 requires that learners bring in elements from across the course to produce a persuasive presentation to a planning audience.