Presentation: Expert workshop on developing meaningful adaptation policy indicators , Laura Escobar - Colombia

1. Climate Change Adaptation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Scheme Progress in Colombia

2. Climate Change Adaptation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Scheme Progress in Colombia

3. Progress in a nutshell
National Adaptation Plan
(PNACC): Phase IV
PNACC M&E
Technical support from
CTCN to design the National
Adaptation Indicators
System
(SNIACC)
iNDC 2015: SNIACC
HAC/CAT: Herramienta para
la Acción Climática: Climate
Action Tool
Climate Change National Policy
(PNCC): National Climate Change
Information System (SNICC)
Creation of National M&E
Roundtable
Climate Change National Law:
reinforces the creation of the National
Climate Change System (SNICC).
SNICC on National Development Plan
Design: Integrated
Information System
on Vulnerability, Risk
and Adaptation to
Climate Change
(SIIVRA) (IDEAM)
Criteria and
Orientations for the
design of Colombian
M&E Framework
NDC 2020: SIIVRA
and M&E
HAC
Climate Action Law
E2050
2017-2018 2022-2026
2011-2015-2016 2018-2022
Development and
implementation of
the: Integrated
Information System
on Vulnerability,
Risk and Adaptation
to Climate Change
(SIIVRA)
Development M&E
through HAC

4. Developing the M&E component of Colombia has been a
participatory process:
25 sessions since 2017 with different stakeholders
Dialogue and learning processes roundtable towards:
- Exchange of knowledge and experience of establishing
M&E components in projects, programmes and plans
- Building process of national guidelines on the national
and international commitment framework
National M&E Roundtable

5. Technical support from CTCN to
design the National Adaptation
Indicators System
(SNIACC)
iNDC 2015: SNIACC
HAC/CAT: Herramienta para la
Acción Climática
2015-2016 CTCN support:
Benchmark Adaptation
projects and Indicators and
prioritisation through
SMART: Specific,
Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant, and Time-
Bound.
Indicators were used in the
3rd National
Communication
What did we learn?
Indicators are specific to projects/plans/programmes and their
interests. How can we use this at a national level?
National Adaptation Indicators System
(SNIACC)

6. SNICC and its systems of : Climate Action Law
(2169/Dec 2021)
SNICC
Mitigation MRV
Adaptation M&E
MRV Climate Finance

8. https://accionclimatica.minambiente.gov.co/
HERRAMIENTA PARA LA ACCIÓN CLIMÁTICA
Climate Action Tool
https://accionclimatica.minambiente.gov.co/

9. Criteria and orientations M&E Design
Criteria 1 Criteria 2 Criteria 3 Criteria 4 Criteria 5
Adaptation M&E will be
aligned with national
climate change policies,
plans and programmes
Adaptation actions will
include a M&E scheme
since planning stages,
to monitor progress in
implementation at
different temporalities,
generating
apprenticeship towards
improvements and
adjustments.
Adaptation M&E
component will be
articulated with other
national information
systems (SNICC, SIAC)
Adaptation M&E
component will have a
vertical approach to
integrate national,
subnational local and
sectoral stakeholder
(conciliate bottom-up
top-down approaches)s
Adaptation M&E
component will have a
robust methodological
approach

10. Methodological approaches
GIZ, UNEP-WCMC and FEBA (2020)
GIZ & IISD (2015)
TNC (2022)

11. Project aggregation exercise
o Project's name
o Themes
o Metric type
o M&E Approach
o Number of M&E indicators
o Units of measure
o Expected result methodology
o Baseline data availability
o Availability of present/future data
o Responsible for the indicator/necessary
institutional arrangements
o Role definition
o Application Scale
o Monitoring report frequency
o Evaluation Periodicity
o Data source, collection and processing
methods
o M&E reporting pathway
o Possible limitations
o Sustainability of M&E
o M&E maturity level

12. Project aggregation exercise
- Efficiency areas: Ecosystems, Water, socioeconomic
- Units of measure: Improved ecosystem service
- Efficiency areas: Water balance,
vulnerability analysis, socio-ecological
diagnosis, conflict analysis
- Measurement units: Ha, number of people,
number of policies/plans/processes,
number of countries
- Efficiency areas: agriculture (corn) and
livestock (meat and milk)
- Units of measurement : Forage supply
(biomass production during dry
periods), Soil moisture content, Air
temperature, Biomass nutritional
quality.
- Efficiency areas: Ecosystems, agro
- Units of measure: °C, mm, %
- Efficiency areas: Water regulation,
conflict analysis Mines and Energy
- Units of measurement: caudal
variations, social and environmental
benefits,

13. Project aggregation exercise
Areas of
effectiveness
Metric Types Measurement units data
availability
Institutional
arrangements
Data source level of
maturation
M&E
1. Water balance,
2. Vulnerability
analysis,
3.Socioeconomic,
4. Agricultural,
5. Ecosystems
Quantitative,
Qualitative
Ha, people,
policies/plans/proces
ses, countries; %,
Improved ecosystem
service, Forage
offer, humidity,
Nutritional quality of
biomass, °C, mm,
Flow variations,
social benefits,
environmental
Yes,
baselines
and future
data
Different levels of
the data cycle: data
collection, reporting,
disclosure
Different
scales of
information
sources and
processing
Formulation/im
plementation/im
plemented
All?

14. Enables
instruments
and
capacities)
Economic ($)
Ecosystems
(extension
km/ha)
People(#)
SIIVRA Dimensions
Food Security
Water
Biodiversity and ecosystem
services
Human Health
Human Habitat
Infraestructure
Risk disaster
Cultural Inheritance
Proposal: Aggregated areas of efficiency (metrics)
¿Could you categorise and aggregate indicators/metrics of
different nature projects/plans/ programmes?

15. ¿Do we want to have a
unique adaptation
metric?
¿Is it possible to
aggregate and escalate
information into few
areas of efficiency?

16. Thank you
lescobara@minambiente.gov.co