M&E for Climate Change Adaptation Programmes Training Course

This advanced course develops technical skills in M&E for climate change adaptation programmes, covering resilience and adaptive capacity indicator design, adaptive management within uncertain climate timeframes, and evaluation approaches suited to outcomes that may not manifest during the programme period. Participants work through real adaptation M&E challenges rather than climate science theory, examining how to measure a capacity rather than an event. The course closes with a resilience-focused M&E framework designed for a defined adaptation programme.

Climate change adaptation programmes present a genuinely difficult measurement problem: success means a community or system copes better with a climate shock that may not occur during the programme's lifetime, making it hard to measure the very outcome the programme exists to produce.

African climate adaptation programming has expanded rapidly alongside growing climate finance flows, but M&E practice has struggled to keep pace with the conceptual difficulty of measuring resilience and adaptive capacity rather than simpler, more countable outputs. This advanced course moves beyond generic M&E principles into the resilience indicator design, adaptive management and long-timeframe evaluation approaches that climate adaptation programmes specifically require.

• Explain why adaptation outcomes are genuinely difficult to measure
• Design resilience and adaptive capacity indicators
• Distinguish process, capacity and outcome indicators in adaptation programmes
• Apply adaptive management approaches within uncertain climate timeframes
• Assess evaluation designs suited to long or uncertain outcome timeframes
• Evaluate vulnerability and adaptive capacity assessment methodology
• Structure monitoring that captures adaptation in progress, not just events
• Assess climate information use within adaptation programme M&E
• Advise programme teams on climate adaptation M&E design

This course is ideal for:

• M&E officers assigned to climate adaptation programmes
• Climate change adaptation programme managers
• Climate finance institution M&E staff
• Ministry of environment and climate change M&E staff
• Development partner climate resilience staff
• Disaster risk reduction and resilience programme MEL staff
• Research staff supporting adaptation programme evaluation
• County climate resilience planning M&E staff

The programme is delivered through facilitator-led technical sessions combined with resilience indicator design exercises, adaptive management case studies and an evaluation design simulation, structured around small-group work and real or anonymised climate adaptation M&E material rather than lecture alone. Each module closes with a short applied task so participants leave with working tools rather than notes alone.

Institutions sending staff on this course can expect:

• Climate adaptation M&E that genuinely measures resilience, not just outputs
• Improved indicator design distinguishing process, capacity and outcomes
• Stronger use of vulnerability assessment to inform M&E design
• Better-suited evaluation designs for uncertain adaptation timeframes
• Improved credibility with climate finance institutions
• More effective adaptive management under climate uncertainty
• Reduced risk of measurement approaches that misrepresent adaptation progress
• A documented climate adaptation M&E strengthening approach
• Stronger overall adaptation programme accountability and learning

By the end of this course, participants gain:

• Advanced technical skill in climate adaptation programme M&E
• Confidence to design resilience and adaptive capacity indicators
• Sharper vulnerability assessment application skills
• Practical experience designing evaluation for uncertain timeframes
• Stronger standing in climate adaptation and resilience discussions
• A completed resilience-focused M&E framework for direct application
• Improved ability to apply adaptive management under climate uncertainty
• A specialist network across African climate adaptation M&E practice
• A foundation for senior climate adaptation M&E leadership roles

At Strategic Revenue Africa, our certification goes beyond proof of attendance—it represents practical competence and measurable capability. Upon successful completion of our training programs, participants are awarded a Certificate of Completion from Strategic Revenue Africa, recognizing their ability to apply acquired knowledge in real-world settings. As an organization focused on architecting sustainable revenue and strengthening organizational performance, our certifications signal that participants are equipped with skills that drive results, not just theory.

Prior general M&E experience is expected, alongside some exposure to climate or environmental programming. This is an advanced, practitioner-level course building sector-specific depth onto existing M&E foundations.