To ensure sustainability, such capacity building initiatives benefit from a good understanding of the local context and partner countries’ own priorities. This does not entail a simple transfer of skills but rather sustained support over a period of time. While monitoring may be an integral component of the design and implementation of an adaptation policy, it does not capture progress made in implementing other initiatives that contribute to the country’s climate resilience. Similarly, evaluation mechanisms assessing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of adaptation policies and other relevant initiatives may be centrally managed and external to the daily management of implementing the policy. If no mechanism is in place to ensure that findings from the two processes are readily available to each other, good co-ordination between producers and users of the various sources of information is useful. Alternatively, an independent body can be established to co-ordinate the monitoring and evaluation process.