This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing countries. Evaluating Environment in International Development focuses on the approaches and experiences of leading international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies to illustrate how systematic evaluation is an essential tool for providing evidence for decision-makers. Moving beyond projects and programmes, it explores normative work on the environment as well as environmental consequences of economic and social development efforts. This new edition reflects on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals and considers how they have influenced efforts in a wide range of countries and what the implications are for evaluation. It also explores ways in which Big Data and geospatial approaches might be utilised. Significantly updated throughout to reflect recent developments in climate change research, and on the implications of the 2020 pandemic, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environment studies, development studies, international relations, sustainable development and evaluation, as well as practitioners in international organizations and development and environmental NGOs.
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Table of Contents
Evaluating environment in international development: an introduction
A global public goods perspective on environment and poverty
Evaluation at the nexus: evaluating sustainable development in the 2020s
Poverty, climate change and disaster risk reduction: too complex to evaluate?
Using big data and geospatial approaches in evaluating environmental interventions
Multiple actors and confounding factors: evaluating impact in complex social-ecological systems
Assessing progress towards impacts in environmental programmes using the field review of outcomes to impacts methodology
Meta-analysis of climate mitigation evaluations
A programme theory approach to evaluating normative environmental interventions
From evaluation of joint programmes to joint evaluation of SDGs-ready interventions: lessons from the joint GEF-UNDP evaluation of the Small Grants Programme
Evaluating the poverty - environment nexus in Africa
Small grants, big impacts: aggregation challenges
Green economy performance of environmental initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Evaluating international support for transboundary aquifer management programmes
Disaster risk management in the SDG era
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research approach to evaluation of climate change, environment, and natural resource management
Kitabu hiki hutoa mtazamo mpya na wa kina juu ya kutathmini masuala ya mazingira na uendelevu katika nchi zinazoendelea. Mapitio ya Mazingira katika Maendeleo ya Kimataifa (Evaluation of Environment in International Development) inazingatia mbinu na uzoefu wa mashirika ya kimataifa, mashirika yasiyo ya faida, na mashirika ya misaada ya kimataifa na ya pande mbili ili kuonyesha jinsi tathmini ya utaratibu ni chombo muhimu cha kutoa ushahidi kwa watunga maamuzi. Kuendelea zaidi ya miradi na mipango, inachunguza kazi ya kanuni juu ya mazingira kama vile matokeo ya mazingira ya juhudi za maendeleo ya kiuchumi na kijamii. Toleo hili jipya linafikiria juu ya Ajenda ya 2030 kwa Maendeleo Endelevu na Malengo ya Maendeleo Endelevu na inachunguza jinsi wameathiri juhudi katika nchi mbalimbali na ni nini athari kwa tathmini. Pia inachunguza njia ambazo Big Data na mbinu za kijiografia zinaweza kutumiwa. Kwa kuwa imeboreshwa sana katika sehemu zote ili kutafakari maendeleo ya hivi karibuni katika utafiti wa mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa, na juu ya athari za janga la 2020, kitabu hiki kitakuwa cha kuvutia sana kwa wanafunzi na wasomi wa masomo ya mazingira, masomo ya maendeleo, mahusiano ya kimataifa, maendeleo endelevu na tathmini, na pia watendaji katika mashirika ya kimataifa na maendeleo na mashirika yasiyo ya kiserikali ya mazingira. Kitabu hiki wazi ni leseni chini ya Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND). Unaweza kupakua Evaluating Environment in International Development ebook kwa bure katika muundo wa PDF (11.2 MB). Mtazamo wa mazingira katika maendeleo ya kimataifa: utangulizi Mtazamo wa bidhaa za umma za kimataifa juu ya mazingira na umaskini Tathmini katika nexus: kutathmini maendeleo endelevu katika miaka ya 2020 Umaskini, mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa na kupunguza hatari ya maafa: ngumu sana kutathmini? "Kutumia data kubwa na mbinu za kijiografia katika tathmini ya hatua za mazingira: Watendaji wengi na sababu za kuchanganyikiwa: tathmini ya athari katika mifumo tata ya kijamii na ikolojia; tathmini ya maendeleo kuelekea athari katika mipango ya mazingira kwa kutumia tathmini ya uwanja wa matokeo ya athari; meta-uchambuzi wa tathmini ya kupunguza hali ya hewa; mbinu ya mpango wa mpango wa tathmini ya mazingira; kutoka kwa tathmini ya mipango ya pamoja hadi tathmini ya pamoja ya SDGs; mafunzo kutoka kwa tathmini ya pamoja ya GEF-UNDP ya mpango wa misaada ndogo; mazingira ya mazingira; mazingira ya Afrika; mikopo mikopo mikopo mikubwa; changamoto za jumla. """