Impacts of climate shocks risk undermining or even reversing sustainable development progress both locally and globally. Solutions that work now may not be suitable for the future: there is an urgent need for countries and the international community to move from looking at ‘what works’ to evaluating ‘what will work’.

This iied briefing calls on evaluation commissioners and decision makers in government, the donor community, civil society and academia to invest now in evaluations that explore the viability of policies and programmes under increasing climate uncertainty.