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.
We are committed to taking urgent and ongoing action to address the climate crisis. By 2023 we aim to mainstream a climate lens across all our projects and to become carbon neutral.
Read more about climate action at Itad
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
Current knowledge of the links between climate and conflict
An interactive poster capturing current trends and links in knowledge and thinking between climate, conflict and peacebuilding.
Report
Itad’s Emissions Reduction Plan 2022-25
We aim to be carbon negative by 2023; guided by the 4R framework, we set out how we will take urgent and ongoing action to...
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.
Blogs and news
Impact story
Shaping organisational change for more effective philanthropy
An Itad evaluation conducted in partnership with global philanthropic organisation Porticus, led to organisational changes for...
Blog
Mainstreaming climate concerns into conflict-related evaluation work
Our work with UK Government is highlighting the value of applying a climate lens to conflict-related development programming.
Blog
Supporting climate justice through collaborative learning
Our work with Porticus is highlighting the value of collaborative learning to shape climate justice initiatives more...
Blog
Building women and girls’ resilience to climate change
Lessons from our work with partners on integrating sexual and reproductive health rights with climate change adaptation.