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
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...
Think Piece
Learning to evaluate transformational change – Itad Think Piece 01
We urgently need a low carbon and climate-resilient future. Incremental adaptation may no longer be enough –...
Blogs and news
Blog
Carbon offsetting – how Earthly is helping Itad go carbon neutral
Are carbon offsetting projects greenwashing? We explore the issues of sustainability and effectiveness within these projects,...
Blog
Who really wins? Using prizes to stimulate social and environmental innovation
The climate emergency is perhaps the biggest challenge of our time. Meeting it requires fast-paced innovation and social...
Blog
World Ocean Day: The role of science and MEL in tackling marine litter
Understanding that our relationship with nature is a cycle is the first step towards building back better. For World Ocean...
News
Itad at UKES 2021: Evaluation and evaluative thinking
We are looking forward to the UK Evaluation Society conference taking place between 25-27 May online. This year’s theme...