Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Climate-SRHR Interventions
Climate change is a major threat to sexual and reproductive health outcomes and service delivery mechanisms, putting the health and well-being of millions of people around the world at risk.
Responding effectively to the challenges posed by climate change often requires innovative approaches that blend diverse intervention strategies to strengthen access to care, reduce risk, and adapt to a changing world.
As SRHR programming and interventions shift in response to climate change, so too must our strategies for monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL). Doing so is critical for accountability, learning, and cost-effective investment.
This framework is a practical resource to strengthen MEL for integrated climate-SRHR interventions. We created this guide for funders and organizations working to improve SRHR outcomes in climate-affected regions.
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I’m a funder looking for a topline introduction to climate-SRHR MEL.
I am a practitioner looking for in-depth guidance on climate-SRHR MEL
This framework will be especially useful for people like:
A managing director for a SRHR portfolio who needs to persuade an investment review board to continue or expand climate-SRHR investments relative to other possible investment paths.
A program officer at a philanthropic foundation who is developing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a new SRHR investment that integrates climate considerations and needs to 1) provide guidance to applicants on how to select MEL indicators to include in their proposal and 2) have a solid framework to assess the anticipated quality, credibility, and impact of climate-SRHR grantee proposals.
A program officer at a corporate funder who needs to understand what supportive policy for climate-resilient SRHR looks like and how they would know if their organization’s advocacy efforts had contributed to those good policies.
A global MEL officer at a non-governmental organization who is overseeing the climate-SRHR portfolio and needs to give technical guidance to local MEL officers on how to assess impact in a standardized way across climate-SRHR investments, and document the global impact of the organization’s climate-SRHR programs.
A local MEL officer at a community-based organization who needs to build a MEL framework for a climate-SRHR project is struggling to identify quantitative outcome and impact measures that are feasible within the project’s timeline and budget
However, these are just illustrative examples - this framework is intended to be helpful for anyone working at the nexus of climate change and SRHR, even if you do not fit into one of these roles.
