Scientific Publications
A pioneering approach to measure increased resilience to face climate change: insights from the Race to Resilience campaign
This paper illustrates a methodology to measure the impact of resilience-building actions on the increased resilience of people and natural systems to face climate change, developed and field-tested around the Race to Resilience Campaign. Despite increasing acknowledgment of the need for robust methodologies and indicators to monitor and evaluate efforts across adaptation planning and implementation, there is still a lack of sufficiently standardized and agreed upon metrics able to capture the effect of resilience-building actions.
Tackling the challenges of measuring global progress in climate resilience: Learnings from the Race to Resilience Campaign
Measuring the impact of adaptation actions continues being a crucial challenge for the climate community. This article explores the learning journey of the Race to Resilience (RtR) campaign developing and improving an adaptation metrics framework, including an Increasing Resilience Index (RII) through a co-production process. This process involved multiple experts with different types of expertise and applied a set of dynamic, participatory and inclusive strategies and methodologies. Various of the challenges faced and learned are illustrated and addressed in this article such as capacity reporting among RtR partners, avoiding double-counting, the design of reporting tools, and data confidence, among others. A key takeaway from these processes is that applying resilience and adaptation concepts and tools to measure progress in real-world situations demands constant effort, refinement, active learning, flexibility, and the expertise and knowledge of multiple actors, showing that aligning academic robustness and reporting capacities of practitioners face many challenges.