Climate change and natural resources
The global climate crisis is a significant threat to human development. From agriculture to infrastructure, even the most resilient systems are challenged by rising temperatures and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and vulnerable communities continue to be disproportionally impacted.
With estimates that suggest 100 million people are at risk of being pushed into poverty by climate change by 2030, the need to understand what works and why is more urgent than ever. The transformational change needed to respond to the climate crisis is large scale and complex.
The evaluation and learning work we do to understand climate change, natural resources and resilience helps our partners to use evidence-based findings to make decisions which lead to informed investments and actionable change towards a low carbon, climate-resilient future.
Project
Mid-term review of IFAD’s Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme
Smallholders are on the frontline of climate change. Their livelihoods rely on natural resources that are already affected by...
Project
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED)
The effects of climate change are felt most acutely by people living in some of the most vulnerable countries in the world....
Project
HMG Climate Change Compass: evaluating the UK’s International Climate Fund (ICF)
As climate change continues to create new and complex challenges, more agile approaches to development and environmental...
Project
Evaluation of Transformational Change in Climate Investment Funds
The concept of transformational change has attracted significant attention as a way to create the profound shifts needed to...
Publications
Knowledge product
Connecting Conflict, Climate Change and Ecological Crisis
Addressing the climate and ecological crises is no longer the responsibility of organisations working in the environmental...
Report
Savings and climate resilience – A review of successes and challenges in current programming
Climate change is the most urgent challenge of our time, and the impacts disproportionately affect people living in poverty.
Practice Paper
Improving resilience measurement: Learning to adapt – Itad Practice Paper 01
Strengthening resilience is critical if communities are to respond positively to extreme events, climate change and disasters....
Report
A practical handbook for using prizes to help solve development challenges
While innovation inducement prizes have a historic pedigree, particularly in the early development of aviation, they have only...
Blogs and news
Blog
Video: Climate crisis and conflict: cross-sector working for sustainable solutions
Tom Gillhespy and Dr. Haseeb Md. Irfanullah explore the need to mainstream climate and ecological concerns into our...
News
News: Itad is officially carbon net-zero!
As the world looks to COP26 for cleaner energy solutions, we’re proud to announce Itad is now officially carbon net-zero...
Blog
COP26 expert opinions: Adaptation
As we look to Glasgow and COP26, our experts share their thoughts and predictions for what they expect the future of climate...
Blog
COP26 expert opinions: Climate Finance
With global attention focused on COP26, and renewed – or unfulfilled – climate promises, we asked our Principal...