Outlook on Climate Change Adaptation in the South Caucasus Mountains

Monitoring and evaluation

Almost all the programmes and strategies mentioned above include a monitoring and evaluationmechanisms, application of which is the duty of a responsible government body as stipulated within the relevant policy document. However, the monitoring and evaluation capacity of these bodies is often insufficient. Furthermore, as none of the countries have climate change adaptation strategies, none of them use climate change adaptation policy as an umbrella for sectoral

policy papers. Hence, there is no comprehensive monitoring mechanism, which might be used as a tool for evaluation of climate actions planned under sectoral policy papers. Monitoring is therefore also fragmented. Since ratification of the UNFCCC, National Communications drafted with financial support from the GEF and implemented with the support of UNDP, remain the only and most comprehensive tool of monitoring and evaluation of climate adaptation actions in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Georgia

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