What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners

What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners

In this paper, fourteen leading evaluation practitioners were asked to reflect on lessons from the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) for evaluation practice. Questions discussed include the following: the importance of evaluating equity between rich and poor countries and other forms of climate injustice, the role of the evaluation and the the implications of the post-Glasgow climate ‘pact’ for the continued relevance of evaluation, the causal pathways in different settings and ‘theories of no-change’ to understand gaps between stakeholder promises and delivery, evaluation timescales and units of analysis beyond particular programmes, and the implications for evaluation commissioning and funding are discussed as well as the role of evaluation in programme-design and implementation.

Contributors: Rob van den Berg, Dennis Bours, Astrid Brousselle, Jindra Čekan, Scott Chaplowe, Eleanor Chelimsky, Ian Davies, Weronika Felcis, Timo Leiter, Debbie Menezes, Robert Picciotto, Patricia Rogers, Andy Rowe and Juha Uitto