Ministers and other senior policy officials can champion the importance of monitoring and evaluation and ensure that findings contribute to a transparent, evidence-based adaptation policy planning and implementation process (Segone, 2008). There is also scope for greater exchange among countries of lessons learned on effective adaptation approaches and on methods used to monitor and evaluate them. Answerability is primarily based on political will to justify decisions and actions based on the monitoring and evaluation of adaptation interventions. Enforceability, on the other hand, refers to the ability of governments to ensure that national policy commitments agreed upon (e.g. in their annual or periodic development plans) are being met and that corrective measures are undertaken when they are not.