A bottom-up approach: Identifying national standard climate change indicators for Uganda

This report documents and draws lessons from the process to develop climate change indicators for inclusion in Uganda’s existing local and national monitoring and evaluation tools and frameworks. This publication responds to the complex nature of adaptation and the absence of measurable outcomes or indicators to judge adaptation and its effects on a country’s overall development.

Lessons learned are the following (pp. 25-26):

• using evidence from the bottom-up gives credibility to the programmes;
• participation ensures the national validation process of indicators goes smoothly;
• building knowledge and skills is critical to ensure the system will continue to work;
• coordination and harmonisation improved the overall effectiveness of the process;
• similar climate change and development indicators is not a problem;
• conducive country policy frameworks help develop climate change Monitoring & Evaluation;
• a partnership approach is key to success.